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IHE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Vol. XVIIL] OCTOBEE, 1885. [No. 269. 



LYCMNA ARGIADES, Pall. 



A BUTTEKFLY NEW TO THE BRITISH FAUNA. 

 By the Rev. O. PlCEARD-CAMBRiDOE. 



Lycjena aegiades. 

 (From a continental specimen.) 



Two specimens (male and female) of this butterfly, which 

 appears to be new to Britain, were taken on Bloxworth Heath, 

 Dorset, on the 18th and 20th of August. The female (which is 

 rather worn) was taken on the 18th by my son Charles Owen, 

 and the male on the 20th, close to the same spot, by my son 

 Arthur ; this latter specimen is in good condition. Repeated 

 searches in the neighbourhood since have failed to bring any 

 further success. One of the plants on which I understand the 

 larva feeds, great bird's-foot trefoil {Lotus major), is abundant 

 near the spot where these two specimens occurred ; and it seems 

 to me probable that we have chanced upon the last of a small 

 brood of this pretty little butterfly. It is stated, in Kirby's 

 ' European Butterflies and Moths,' to occur from May to August. 

 I am in hope, therefore, that by searching for it early another 



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