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PALE CLOUDED YELLOW. 



PI,ATE V, 



Col las Uijalcj OcHSENiiEiMKR. Leach. Stephens. 



'^ " Curtis. Duncan. 



Fajnlio Ilyah, Donovan. 



Papilio JPaloiiw, Esper. 



This beautiful Butterfly is proverbial for the uncertainty of 

 its appearance. One year many will be taken in various parts 

 of the country: the next, scarce one will be seen. The proper 

 time of its first appearance is the last week in August, but some- 

 times it is later than the preceding sjiecies. 



Clover fields, tre-foil, saint-foin, and lucerne fields, sunny grass 

 banks, and various other situations, are its resort. 



The southern districts are obviously the "locale" of this species. 



It is plentiful in Africa, in the northern parts of Asia, in 

 Nepaul, Cachemere, and other countries, and also in Europe. 



It has been captured or seen in ITeslington fields near York, 

 in 1842; near Dover, Birch wood, Darcnth wood. Charing, and 

 Hcadley lane, Kent; Lewes, Sussex; both on the Downs, and the 

 Kingmer Head, near Shorehani, Kemp Town, and Brighton; 

 Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire ; Wolverton, the Isle of Wight, Arundel, 

 Sussex; Matlock, Derbyshire; Eton, Buckinghamshire; Lincoln; 

 near Cambridge and Triple w, Cambridgeshire; near Leicester; 

 in Northamptonshire; Broomfield, Colchester, and Epping, in 

 Essex; Stoke by Nayland and Ipswich, Suffolk; and several 

 other localities. 



It is said to be double-brooded, appearing in IMay, and in 

 August or September. 



The Pale Clouded Yellow measures from two inches to two 

 inches and a cj^uarter in the expanse of its Avings. lu the male 



