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LUL WORTH SKIPPER. 



PLATE LXX. 



Hespcria Actceon, Ochsenheimer. Curtis. 



Papilio ActcBon, EsPER. HUBNER. 



Pamphila Actceon, Stephens. Wood. Duncan. 



" " Westwood. 



Tlujmelinus Actceon, Hubner. 



Ix company, some years ago, with my friend J. C. Dale, Esq., 

 late High Sheriff of Dorset, I formerly captured this, then 

 newly by him discovered insect, I mean as a British one, in 

 plenty at Lulworth Cove, Lulworth, Dorsetshire — a charming 

 scene, where you will be fain to wish that you could for 

 ever watch the glorious ocean, dashing up from its dark depth 

 against the steep cliffs, which there present an aspect of the 

 utmost seclusion and the most lonely retirement. Wild must 

 all around be in winter, but this small butterfly rejoices in 

 the settled summer, more fortunate than some of its class, 

 who are tempted out to woo the "beautiful spring:" often 

 their reception is cold and chilling, and their day-dream of 

 happiness is blighted like the contemporary delicate flower 

 that has peered out too soon from its sheltered nook, and 

 must again hide its head for a season, till the skies are more 

 propitious, and the sun shall shine undisturbed upon it. 

 Now it is not to be seen there, though it is still to be 

 found at the burning cliff, near Weymouth, where my friend 

 the Rev. Francis Lockey, of Swanswick Cottage, near Bath, 

 has taken it in plenty, Mr. Humphreys, also at Shenston, near 

 Lichfield. 



In this small species the expansion of the wings is about an 



