140 BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



tawny, and dark brown or "black. It appears in Ma> 

 and June, and again in August, being found in wooda, 

 principally in the south, and its range is often confined 

 to a small spot hardly fifty yards in diameter, within 

 which it may be quite plentiful. The following are 

 among its recorded localities : Carlisle ; Lake District ; 

 West Yorkshire; Koche Abbey, Yorkshire; Peter- 

 borough; Stowmarket ; Pembury ; Barnwell Wold, 

 Nbrthants ; Oxford ; Blandford ; Worcester ; Glouces- 

 tershire Bedfordshire ; Epping; CoombeWood ; Darenth 

 Wood ; Boxhill ; Dorking ; Brighton ; Lewes ; Worth- 

 ing ; Lyndhurst ; Teignmouth. 



The males of all the members of the family to which 

 this butterfly belongs, and of whicn this is the sole 

 European representative the ERYCINID^E have only 

 four legs adapted for walking, whilst the females have 

 six. 



THE BKOWN HAIE-STKEAK. 

 (Thecla Betulv.) (Plate XII. fig. 1, Male; 1 a, Female.) 



THE genus to which this butterfly belongs, contains five 

 British species, elegant and interesting insects, thougt 

 not gaily tinted. They are most obviously distinguished 

 from other small butterflies by the tail-Wee projection on 

 the lower edge of their hind wings (though one of their 



