10 CLOUDED YELLOW. 



Esq., has informed me; Tiptree, Essex, near the at present celebrated 

 " Model Farm ;" Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire ; once at Leominster, 

 Herefordshire; also near Everton, Nottinghamshire; "Weston-super-Mare, 

 in Somerset; Oakley Wood, near Northampton, by the Rev. D. T. 

 Knight; and Swinhope, Lincolnshire, by the Rev. R. P. Alington. 



In Yorkshire, in Heslington fields near York, a few in 1833 and 

 1834, and forty-seven, thirty-seven males and ten females, in 1842; 

 Sand Hutton, and Sutton-on-Derwent, near York, by the Rev. George 

 Rudston Read. One at Liverpool ; one at New Brighton, Cheshire ; 

 others at Bushmead Priory, Bedfordshire; Lympstone, Teignmouth, 

 Budleigh Salterton, Devouport, and Plymouth, a few, and between 

 Sidmouth and Lyme Regis, in Devonshire, where Thomas Lighton, Esq., 

 saw them in thousands in September, 1843 ; Broomfield and Chelmsford, 

 Essex ; Hitchin, Hertfordshire ; near Ely, Reach, Wisbeach, but very 

 rarely indeed, Newmarket Heath, Triple w, Cambridge, Whittlesea 

 Mere, and Horseheath, Cambridgeshire ; Lavenham, Sudbury, Foxearth, 

 Great Cornard, Clare, and Kedington, Suffolk ; Cromer, Yarmouth, 

 and Roydon, in Norfolk ; near Lyndhurst, Winchester, Alverstoke, 

 Christchurch, Southampton, and in the New Forest, Hampshire ; Black 

 Park and Chenies, Buckinghamshire ; Kemp Town, Brighton, Lewes, 

 Casham, Chichester, Rottingdean, and Arundel, Sussex ; Barham 

 Downs, Darenth Wood, and Victoria Park, Hackney ; Dorchester and 

 Portland, Dorsetshire ; in Shropshire ; near Leicester, Shardlow, and 

 Market Harborough, Leicestershire ; Headley Lane, Wandsworth, Cam- 

 berwell, Riddlesdown, Fetcham Downs, Godalming, and W^imbledou, 

 in Surrey. Looe, in Cornwall ; Higham and Forest Hill, and the Isle 

 of Wight. One was taken at Appleby, Westmoreland, on the 11th. 

 of September, 185 (?), by Henry Moses, Esq., M.D., which is very far 

 north for it, and a second on the 15th., " par nobile." In Northum- 

 berland one was seen at Norham, near the Tweed, on the 12th. of 

 September, 1859, by Mr. William Moore. In Wales near Llandudno. 



In Scotland only one has been recorded; it was taken by Wyville 

 T. C. Thompson, Esq., on a steep bank near the sea, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Lamlash, in the Isle of Arran. 



In Ireland two were seen, and one of them captured by Mr. Joseph 

 Poole, of Grovetowu, near Wexford, in that locality, on the 9th. of 

 September, 1844. 



It will be observed, from the foregoing accounts, that the southern 

 and south-eastern coasts are by far the most productive localities for 

 this beautiful insect, very few indeed being elsewhere met with. 



About the last day of August, or the " First of September," the 

 elegant Clouded Yellow usually makes it appearance. It has however 



