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COMMA. 



PLATE XXXII. 



Va?icssd C-album, 

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Papilio C-album, 

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Polygonia C-album, 

 Cojyima C-album, 



ochsenheimer. curtis. 

 Stephens. Duncan. Westwood. 

 LiNN.^us. Lewin. Donovan. 

 Harris. Alp.in. 



HUENER. 



Rennie. 



This very handsome and singularly-shaped species has been noticed 

 very abundantly two successive years by Mr. Graham, of York, near 

 Green Hanimerton, Yorkshire, alighting in hundreds on the blossoms 

 of the common wild Scabious; and James Dalton, Esq. has taken it at 

 Hackfall, so celebrated for its beautiful scenery. It also occurs near 

 York. I have seen it occasionally near Doncaster and Burnby, also in 

 the garden of Nunbnrnholme Rectory, and by the side of the Brant 

 Wood, also at Howshara, Sutton-on-Derwent, Langwith, and Butter- 

 crambe Wood, and in other parts of the same county. I have also 

 taken it in plenty in the neighbourhood of Broonisgrove, Worcestershire, 

 in all parts of which county it is doubtless to be found, as it also is 

 throughout Warwickshire. Other localities for it are Sywell Wood, 

 near Xorthampton, Lilford, Barnwell, and Ashton Wold, and the 

 neighbourhood of Polebrook, Northants. It used formerly to be taken 

 at Glanville's Wootton, Dorsetshire, by J. C. Dale, Esq., but is now 

 never seen there. It is very rare near Stoke-by-Xayland, Suffolk, and 

 very abundant near Bristol, and doubtless in other parts of Gloucester- 

 shire. It occurs at Brighton, Lewes, and Anstey, also on Ranraore 

 Common, near Dorking, Surrey. In Wales, near Llandudno. In 

 Hertfordshire it also occurs, and the neighbourhood of London; and 

 in Scotland, in Fifeshire. 



The perfect insect appears in June, and in August or September, 



