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CLOUDED YELLOW. 



PLATE IV, 



Colias Edusa, Stephens. Curtis. Duncan. 



Colias Chnjsotlicme, Stephens. 



Papilio Edusa, Fabricius. 



Papilio Hi/ale, Esrer. Donovan. 



Papilio Elcctm, Lewin. Linn.eus. 



Papilio Helice, Hubner. Haworth. 



This is one of the favourite Butterflies of every Entomologist 

 in this country. It is always a valued capture, even though 

 sometimes it is met with in tolerable plenty. It is a fast flyer, 

 and many a rugged chase, when a boy, have I had after it. 

 Some have considered that its appearance, at least in any plenty, 

 is triennial, others quadriennial, and others septennial; but this 

 is not the case; though, certainly, particular seasons arc more 

 or less favourable to its development. 



Clover fields are a much frequented resort of this beautiful 

 insect, which glitters in the butterfly-collector's eyes as a golden 

 m.-tcor. So also are the grassy cliffs of the sea-shore in those 

 localities where it occru's — these are the "California" of the 

 entomological speculator, and in these he invests his time and 

 trouble. 



This species occurs in considerable numbers in those seasons in 

 which it appears, in some of the following, and doubtless in many 

 other localities: — Near Swanagc, Lyme Ilegis, and the cliffs near 

 Charmouth, Dorsetshire, where I have frequently captured 

 it in plenty, and Avhere it is to be met with every year, 

 though in some years in greater abundance than in others. 

 Xear Worcester, Avhere my brother, Beverley R. Morris, Esq., 

 captured one in 1825; near Broadway, Charing, Fcversham, 



