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Burwell, a silvery white specimen being secured at the former 

 place. Besides the localities already mentioned it has been 

 met with at Purfleet, Beufleet, and St. Osyth. in Essex, and 

 at Chappel and Bures, in Suffolk. In all probability its 

 range in this countrj- is far from being yet known, but its 

 metropolis is evidently in Essex and Suffolk. It shows a 

 singular partiality for the embankments which protect the 

 cultivated land from the inroad of the high tides which flood 

 the salt marshes. Here it flits about, or sits on the coarse 

 sea-side gi-asses, or on blossoms of thistle, or Lotus corniculatux, 

 indicating rather sluggish habits, yet flying swiftly when 

 disturbed. Further inland it seems to frequent chalky hill- 

 sides and marshes. Abroad it has a wide range throughout 

 the greater part of Europe, Northern Asia, and Northern 

 Africa. Kirby says that it occurs in meadows in July and 

 August, and that he has seen it, most commonly, along paths 

 by the side of cornfields. 



0. H. Actseon, Esp. — Expanse, 1^ inch. Golden browu ; 

 fore wings with a central partial ring of pale fulvous, hardly 

 visible in the males. 



Antennas blunt, fore wings short and rather blunt ; costa 

 arched at the shoulder, thence nearly straight ; hind margin 

 somewhat rounded, dorsal margin nearly straight. Hind 

 wings rounded from the costa to the hind margin, which is 

 very slightly hollowed before the squared anal angle. 

 Glistening golden brown ; the costa of the fore wings 

 narrowly edged with dark brown, and the hind margins of 

 fore and hind wings bordered with the same. Fore wings 

 with the discal cell, the space between it aud the shoulder of 

 the costa, and a broad crescent beyond the cell, consisting of 

 spots between the nervures, all bright pale fulvous, quite 

 distinct in the female, but less so, and often more or less 

 obscured in the male. The black streak in the fore wings of 

 the male is long and curved, arising from the base of the 

 dorsal margin, proceeding almost parallel with that margin 



