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WHITE-W HAIRSTREAK. 



PLATE XXXIX. 



Thecla W-album, Hubner. Godart. Stephens. 



" " Curtis. Duncan. 



Papilio W-album, Villars. 



" pi-uni, Lewin. Haworth. Donovan. 



Thecla pruiii. Leach. Jermyn. 



Strymon W-album, Hubner. 



Lycana W-album, Ochsenheimer. 



Happy in all its aspects is "Rural life in England," and not the 

 least so when the love of Natural History gives a zest to every walk 

 and ride, and invites you moreover into calm and peaceful scenes, 

 where, for the most part, the beauties of nature are seen to the 

 greatest advantage. 



I have captured this pretty species in numbers at High Melton 

 Wood, near Doncaster, and Nunburnholme Brant Wood. Edlington 

 Wood is another locality. It is rather difficult to find it at a sufficiently 

 low elevation. It lias likewise been obtained at Barnwell and Ashton 

 Wood, and the neighbourhood of Folebrook, Northamptonshire; near 

 Windsor, in Berkshire; Ipswich, Playford, and Bungay, in Suffolk; 

 Alleslcy, in A\'arwickshire; Southgate, in ^Middlesex, also at Chertsey; 

 and in Cambridgeshire; so too, in the vicinity of Ripley, in Surrey, 

 where it was observed by Mr. Stephens, in myriads in the year 1827. 

 It is partial to the bramble blossom. 



The fly occurs in July, also in September. 



The caterpillar is to be found the beginning of June. 



It is said to feed on the elm and the blackthorn. 



The wings expand to the width of from a little under an inch and 

 a quarter to nearly an inch and a half. The fore wings are of a 

 uniform dark blackish brown. The hind wings are of the same dark 

 ground-colour, with a jninute white dot outside the tail, from which a 

 very narrow white streak runs to and round the tail; there are a few 

 rufous marks near the lower inside corner. 



