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LULAYOilTH SKIPPER. 



PLATE 1,XX1. 



Hesperia Ac/cBon, Ochsenheimer. Curtis. 



Papilio Aclmon, EsPER. Hubner 



Pamphila Actceon, Stephen.s. Wood. Duncan. 



" " Westwood. 



Thymelinus ActcBon, Hubner. 



In company, some years ago, with my friend J. C. Dale, Esq., late 

 High Sheriff of Dorset, I formerly captured this, then newly by him 

 discovered insect, I mean as a British one, in plenty at Lulworth Cove, 

 Lulworth, Dorsetshire — a charming scene, where you will be fain to 

 wish that you could for ever watch the glorious ocean, dashing up from 

 its dark depth against the steep cliffs, which there present an aspect of 

 the utmost seclusion and the most lonely retirement. Wild must all 

 around be in winter, but this small butterfly rejoices in the settled 

 summer, more fortunate than some of its class, who are tempted out 

 to woo tlie "beautiful spring:" often their reception is cold and chilling, 

 and their day-dream of happiness is blighted like the contemporary 

 delicate flower that has peered out too soon from its sheltered nook, 

 and must again hide its head for a season till the skies are more 

 propitious and the sun shall shine undisturbed upon it. Now it is 

 not to be seen there, though it is still to be found at the burning 

 clifl^, near Weymouth, where my friend the Rev. Francis Lockey, of 

 Swanswick Cottage, near Bath, has taken it in plenty; Mr. Humphreys, 

 also at Shenston, near Lichfield. 



This butterfly appears in July and August. 



The date of the appearance of the caterpillar is in June and July. 

 It feeds on the reed, {Arimdo phraffmitcs,) and the Aurundo (Calamo- 

 grostis) cpigcjos, rolling up the leaf by white silken cords across: 

 sometimes two larvae arc found in one leaf. 



