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pe)'puaillu,% Lotus cornvcidatus, and other leguminous plants, 

 from April to June. 



1'lta apparently uudescribed. 



A fairly swift and active species, but differing in liabits 

 from the preceding, in that it seems rarely to rest on bushes 

 or to fly voluntarily at any height, except when fighting with 

 another specimen, but dashes swiftly along close to the short 

 turf of its favourite haunts, settling on low-gi'owing flowers 

 and plants, such as C'nicus acaulis, Centaurca nifjra, and 

 Zotics corniculatus, or upon sheep droppings or stones upon 

 the ground. It frequents chalk hills, and is common at Box 

 Hill, Reigate, Betchworth, Horsley, and other places in 

 Surrey, though at Croydon it has been exterminated ; and is 

 found locally on the range of the South Downs in Kent, at 

 Dover, Paddleworth, Snowledge, Ouxton Downs, and Barham 

 Downs ; near Brighton, Lewes, Hailsham and Eastbourne, 

 in Sussex ; and at Petersfield, Kimpton, Portsdown, Wim- 

 bome, and Lyudhurst, Hants. In Dorsetshire it is very 

 abundant on Hambledon and other hills ; and there are 

 records, though rarely, of its occurrence in Wiltshire, Glou- 

 cestershire, Somerset, and Devon. Major Still has taken 

 several this year on the slopes of Dartmoor. In Buckingham- 

 shire it is locally abundant ; and is found, more rarely, in Berks 

 and Herts. In Cambridgeshire at Whittlesford and Cherry 

 Hinton, and on Newmarket Heath, very locally but of rather 

 large size ; also formerly in plenty at the Keach Ditch ; but 

 from some of these localities it has disappeai'ed. In Essex it 

 has been taken near SafEron Walden and Danbury, but is 

 rare. I'robably it may be found casually in many parts of 

 the Eastern counties, where the chalk comes to the surface, 

 a single specimen having even been taken (by Mr. E. A. 

 Atmoi-e) in Norfolk. In Northamptonshire there is a 

 singular record. The llev. W. Bree states that it appeared 

 suddenly at Barnewell and Ashton Wolds in 1851, in a 

 district which is not upon the chalk, and in which it had not 



