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BROWN HAIPvSTREAK. 



PLATE XLI. 



Thecla Befiila, Pabriciits. Leach. Stephens. 



" " CiTRTis. Duncan. Westwood. 



Pajjilio Betulce, LiNNiEUS. IIawoeth. Donovan. 



" " Albin. Wilkes. Harris. Lewin. 



Lyccena Betulcp, Ochsenheimer. 



Strymon Betulce, Hubner. 



How Avcll one remembers the "Long time ago," with which 

 so trivial a thing as the cajitnre of an insect, even thongh of 

 no great rarity, is associated. The BroAvn Hairstrcak I first, 

 and indeed for the only time captured on one of two little hills 

 Avith an unpleasing designation in the neighbourhood of Wal- 

 lingford, Berkshire. Barnwell, Ashton Wold, and the neigh- 

 bourhood of Polebrook, Northamptonshire; near Great Bedwyn 

 and Sarum, Wiltshire; Coombe Wood, Birch Wood, Darenth 

 Wood, and Hornsey Wood, near London; R-aydon Wood, 

 near Ipswich, Suffolk; Dartmoor, in Devonshire; and places in 

 Dorsetshire and Norfolk are also given as localities for it. 



It is by no means a plentiful species, though widely distri- 

 buted. 



About the end of August or the first week in Sejatember the 

 Brown Hairstreak is to be taken flying about oak iincl beech 

 trees. 



The caterpillar occurs at the end of May. 



It feeds on the blackthorn, birch, plum, etc. 



In this species the wings extend in width from one inch and 

 a third, to rather more than one and a half. They are of a 

 rich glossy brown colour, with a short oblong mark near the 

 middle of the front, outside which is a more or less visible 



