NYMPHALID.-E. 165 



A handsome, swift, brilliant-looking species, usually 

 frequenting the rides and openings of large woods, or waste 

 places bordering upon them, and fond of resting upon 

 bramble blossoms and the iiowers of Ccntaurea. Seems to seek 

 repose in trees ; much more local than the last species, though 

 found often in its company. From flying sometimes in open 

 fields and on hillsides near to woods, may occasionally, though 

 rarely, be found in company with A. Aglaia, as on one of 

 the slopes of the Wrekin, where I saw both species Hying in 

 plenty in one large field full of bracken and thistles, more 

 than thirty years ago. 



Apparently found in most of the larger woods of the 

 southern counties, from Kent, Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, 

 on the east, to Devonshire, Glamorganshire, and Merioneth- 

 shire on the west; also in similar situations through the 

 north-western counties and the more sheltered woods of the 

 Midlands to Herefordshire, Shropshire, Derbyshire, and 

 Lincolnshire. Found in several localities in Yorkshire, in 

 the favoui-ed Grange and Silverdale districts of Lancashire, 

 and near Lake Windermere in Westmoreland ; its extreme 

 northern boundary being reached in Cumberland. So partial 

 is it to warm-wooded districts that at Haslemere, in the 

 extreme south of Surrey, a hilly neighbourhood and rather 

 cool, it is, or was, exceedingly scarce. A former (doubtful) 

 record in Scotland is now rejected by Dr. F. Buchanan 

 White, and was probably an error in observation. I know of 

 no record in Ireland. Abroad, its range is very extensive ; 

 through great part of Europe and eastern and western 

 Asia, in woods and heaths, and even the more sheltered 

 portions of the mountain ranges. 



[A. Niobe, Z. — Very similar to A. Adippc on the upper 

 side, but without the distinct broad thickening with black 

 scales of the two nervures below the middle of the wings, as 

 in that species. The wings also are narrower, and the mark- 

 ings of the upper side, especially the round spots, smaller and 



