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NYMPHALID&. 
NYMPHALINA. 
PYRAMEIS, Hb. 
. atalanta, L. General and common throughout, some 
years more so than others. 
cardui, L. Rather rare inland in Cheshire; more 
common on the coast at Wallasey, especially in some 
years (Pr., M.) Recorded from all the N. Wales counties. 
Periodically abundant in Anglesea (Po.) Flies round 
the hill-tops in Wales (Da.) 
VANESSA, F. 
io, L. Recorded generally throughout, though the 
species is not so common as it used to be. It appears 
to be scarce in East Cheshire. Larvze always common 
in the Sealand district, near Chester, and abundant 
1gor (A.) 
urtice, L. Very common everywhere throughout. 
. polychloros, L. Very unusual. 
C.—One at Prenton (Brockholes); Chester 1859; 
Delamere—all recorded in W.Z. Eastham (Naturalist, 
1885, p. 168); Acton Bridge, taken by James Hirst (Z.Z.); 
Alderley, one in 1869 and one in 1870, H. H. Corbett 
(Z£.L.); near the Lodge Gates at Pettypool, R. Brown 
(2.L.); N. Cheshire, one pupa (N.G.): 
Car.—Llandudno (Harding in Az. XV., p. 64). 
antiopa, L. A great rarity; only an occasional visitor. 
C.—Prenton, Neston, Delamere, all in 1872 (W.L); 
one, Altrincham, Mr. Keyworth (£.Z.); ditto one 1872 
(Coward); one, Macclesfield Forest, Sept. 1858, Hugh 
Harrison (Z.Z.); one, Edge Park, Malpas, 1872 (C.W.D.) 
D.—Pensarn 1872 (A. Barker). 
Car.— Llyn Ogwen, June 1855 (S. Price in Zoologist, 
Vol. XIII., p. 4814). 
POLYGONIA, Hb. 
. c-album, L. Of rare”occurrence, and then only odd 
specimens, except at the Wyches, near Malpas (where it 
is recorded as locally common) and some parts of Wales. 
C.—Delamere (Leather in W.Z.), Bebington in 1873, 
Hooton, Tranmere, Ness, and Puddington, all recorded 
in &.L. A single specimen was taken on the railway 
embankment, Curzon Park, Chester, about 1870 (Da.); 
o. in garden at Edge, near Malpas (F.H.W.D.); locally 
c. at Wyches, Malpas (F.H.W.D.); Bowdon, r. (Tp.); 
