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LARGE TORTOISE-SIIKLL. 



PLATE XXIX. 



Vanessa Polifchloros, Ochseniieimer. Curtis. 



" " Stephens. Dcncax. Westwood. 



PapiJiu PoJi/rhloros, Linn.t:us. Haworth. Lewin. 



" " Donovan. Albin. Wilkes. 



Euf/onia Polj/cJtloros, HuBNER. 



Tins is a very fine species, though painted with no particu- 

 larly gay colours: it is at the same time sufficiently common. 



I have seen this insect in the parishes of Bossall and 

 Huttons Ambo, Yorkshire, and have taken it in a wood a few 

 miles from Worcester, in which county it is tolerably plentiful. 

 I also once procured the larva, and reared it to the perfect 

 insect, at Charmouth, Dorsetshire. It is common in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Feversham and Milstead, near Sittingbourne, Kent, 

 where the Rev. Henry Hilton has taken it, and occurs at 

 Barnwell and Ashton Wold, and the neighbourhood of Polebrook 

 and Lilford, Northamptonshire. In the woods of Suffolk and 

 Essex it is very plentiful, at least in those near Stoke Nayland 

 and Colchester. It occurs also near Great Bedwyn and Sarum, 

 Wiltsliire; plentifully at Bradfield, Berkshire, where my second 

 son, Reginald Frank INIorris, has taken it in the caterpillar 

 state; in the neighbourhood of London; and also at Ely, and 

 other parts of Cambridgeshire; in Norfolk occasionally, as 

 Mr. Robert Harris informs me; and, though rarely, in the 

 woods on the banks of the River Dart, in Devonshire. 



In Scotland, it has been found as far north as Dunkeld, and 

 in other places to the south of it. 



This butterfly comes out in the middle of July, but some 

 individuals, hidden away probably in some sheltered corner. 



