CLOUDED YELLOW. 



PLATE IV, 



Cfllias Edusa, Stephens. Curtis. Dunx.v.v. 



Colias Chrysolhome, Stephens. 



Papilio Edusa, Fabrictus. 



Papilio Hyale, Esper. Donov.a.n. 



Papilio Electro, Lewin. Linn^us. 



Papilio Helice, Hubner. Haworth. 



This is one of the favourite butterflies of every Entomologist in 

 this country. It is always a valued capture, even though it is met 

 with sometimes in tolerable plenty. It is a fast flyer, and many a 

 rugged chase, when a boy, have I had after it. Some have considered 

 that its appearance, at least in any plenty, is triennial, others quadri- 

 ennial, and others septennial; but this is not the case, though, 

 certainly, particular seasons are more or less favourable to its 

 development. 



Clover fields are a much frcqueated resort of this beautiful insect, 

 which glitters in the butterfly-collector's eyes as a golden meteor. So 

 also are the grassy cliffs of the sea-shore in those localities where it 

 occurs — these are the "California" of the entomological speculator, 

 and in these he gladly invests his time and trouble. 



This species occurs in considerable numbers in those seasons in which 

 it appears, in some of the following, and doubtless in many other 

 localities : — Near Swauage, Lyme Regis, and the cliffs near Charmouth, 

 Dorsetshire, where I have frequently captured it myself in plenty, and 

 where it is to be met with every year, though in some years in greater 

 abundance than in others. Near Worcester, where my brother, Beverley 

 R. Morris, Esq., captured one in 1825; near Broadway, Charing, 

 Feversham, Ramsgate, Margate, Folkestone, Blackheath, and Canterbury, 

 Kent; Bronmsgrove, Worcestershire; Dawlish and Exmouth, Devonshire; 

 Biggin, Northamptonshire; and has been taken, as the Hon. T. L. 

 Powys has informed me, in the gardens of Holland House, Kensington, 

 London. Stoke-by-Nayland and Ipswich, Suffolk, as R. B. Postans, 



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