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LAEGE TOUTOISE-SHELL. 



PLATE XXIX. 



Vanessa polychloros, 

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Papilio polychloros, 

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Eugonia polychloros. 



ochsenheimek. curtis. 

 Stephens. Duncan. Westwood. 

 LiNN^us. Haworth. Lewin. 

 Donovan. Albin. Wilkes. 



HUBNER. 



This is a very fine species, though pcainted with no particularly gay 

 colours : it is at the same time sufficiently common. It frequents woods, 

 lanes, and gardens. 



I have seen this insect in the parishes of Bossall and Huttons Ambo, 

 Yorkshire, and have taken it in a wood a few miles from Worcester, 

 in which county it is tolerably plentiful. I also once procured the larva, 

 and reared it to the perfect insect, at Charmouth, Dorsetshire. It is 

 common in the neighbourhood of Feversham and Milstead, near Sit- 

 tingbourne, Kent, where the Rev. Henry Hilton has taken it ; and 

 occurs at Sywell Wood, near Northampton, Barnwell and Ashton 

 Wold, and the neighbourhood of Polebrook and Lilford, Northamp- 

 tonshire. In the woods of Suffolk and Essex it is very plentiful, at 

 least in those near Stoke Nayland and Colchester. It occurs also 

 near Great Bedwyn and Sarum, Wiltshire; plentifully at Bradfield, 

 Berkshire, where my second son, Reginald Frank Morris, has taken 

 it in the caterpillar state; in the neighbourhood of London; and also 

 at Ely, and other parts of Cambridgeshire; in Norfolk occasionally, 

 as Mr. Robert Marris informs me; and, though rarely, in the woods 

 on the banks of the River Dart, in Devonshire. In Hamjjshire it is 

 tolerably plentiful near Winchester, J. Wesley, Esq. informs me; also 

 at Bisterne; so to at Brighton, Sussex; and Anstcy, Warwickshire. 



In Scotland, it has been found as far north as Dunkeld, and in 

 other places to the south of it. 



This butterfly comes out in the middle of July, but some individuals, 

 hidden away probably in some sheltered corner, survive through the 



