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in the collection, nor have I any recollection of having then 

 purchased any insects. The summer of 1866 was extremely 

 hot and I collected chiefly on the coasts of Devon and 

 Dorset, always a most excellent collecting ground." 

 Major Still did not know the species when bi'ought to light 

 in the old collection, but it is correctly named, and one of 

 the specimens, which I have seen, is quite such as might be 

 captured and set by a boy and slightly damaged in the 

 catching. The species is widely distributed abroad, and in 

 the wide range of hilly and uncultivated land in Dorset, 

 Devon, and Cornwall may possibly prove to have a haunt, 

 but at present the evidence seems insufficient to justify its 

 admission to the British fauna.] 



1. C. Pamphilus, L. — Expanse I5 to H inches. Pale 

 fulvous, with a dark-brown marginal line, and a single apical 

 dark spot. 



Fore wings with the eosta slightly arched, and the hind 

 margin neatly rounded ; hind wings with the hind margin 

 slightly undulating, but smoothed into roundness by the 

 rather long cilia. Bright fawn colour, varying to very pale 

 fulvous ; fore wings usually with a moi'e or less distinct dark- 

 brown margin, and a round dark-brown or black spot, sHghtly 

 pale-ringed near the apex ; hind wings faintly clouded with 

 brown except an angulated blotch of the ground colour near 

 the middle, and with the brown margin slightly darker, and 

 shaded inwardly ; cilia rather long, whitish, shaded or faintly 

 dashed with brown. Female similar, but larger and paler in 

 colour, and with whiter cilia. Underside of the fore wings 

 of a richer fulvous than the upper, with the base dark brown ; 

 and beyond the middle an abrupt, straight, perpendicular bar 

 of whitish fulvous or yellowish, which shades off into fulvous, 

 and is immediately followed by the round, sub-apical black 

 spot, which is more distinct than above, white-centred, and 

 with a distinct yellowish ring ; apex and hind margin ashy 

 grey, shading into brown : of hind wings dark ohve brown or 



