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WlilTE-W HAIRSTREAK. 



PLATE XXXIX. 



Thecla IV-aUjiiin, HuBNER. Godakt. Stephens. 



" " CuKTis. Duncan. 



Papilio W-alhum, ViLLEES. 



Pajjilio Pruni, Lewin. Hawoetii. Donovan. 



Thecla Prtmi, Leach. Jeemyn. 



Strymon W-albtcm, Hubnee. 



Lycceiia W-alhum, Ochsenheimee. 



Happy in all its aspects is "E-ural life in England/' and 

 not the least so when the love of Natural History gives a 

 zest to every walk and ride, and invites you moreover into 

 calm and pcacei'ul scenes, where, for the most part, the beauties 

 of nature are seen to the greatest advantage. 



I have captured this pretty species in numbers at High 

 Melton Wood, near Doncaster. It is rather difficult to procure 

 it at a sufficiently low elevation. It has also been obtained at 

 Barnwell and Ashton AVold, and the neighbourhood of Pole- 

 brook, Northamptonshire; near Windsor, in Berkshire; Ipswich 

 and Bungay, in Suffolk; Allesley, in Warwickshire; Southgate, 

 in Middlesex; and in Cambridgeshire; also in the vicinity 

 of E-ipley, in Surrey, where it was observed by JMr. Stephens, 

 in myriads in the year 18.'3T. It is partial to the bramble 

 blossom. 



The fly occurs in July. 



It is said to feed on the elm and the blackthorn. 



The wings expand to the width of from a little imder an 

 inch and a quarter to nearly an inch and a half. The fore 

 winscs are of a uniform dark blackish brown. The hind wind's 

 arc of the same dark ground colour, with a minute white 



