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owe so than the dorsal ; there is a prominent 

 scale at the base of each wing-case, apparently 

 covering the spiracle, and the thirteenth seg- 

 ment is attenuated, depressed, scale-like, and 

 fringed with straight bristles, which appear 

 to indicate the inability to suspend itself. 

 The colour of the chrysalis in pale wainscot- 

 brown, partially transparent; the scale at the 

 lase of the wing-cases and the caudal scale 

 being dark brown, almost black ; the wing- 

 cases are delicately barred with transverse 

 brown lines, very faint indeed, but slightly 

 'nrker than the ground colour; the dorsal 

 suface of the body is indistinctly striped with 

 a darker shade. Newman. 



TIME OF APPEARANCE. The caterpillar 

 through the winter and spring, the chrysalis 

 in June, the butterfly in July. 



LOCALITIES. I believe this butterfly to be 

 entirely absent from Ireland, Scotland, and 

 the Isle of Man. From many of the northern 

 counties of England it also appears absent. 

 It is not mentioned in Mr. Wailes' admirable 

 catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Northumber- 

 land and Durham, and I have no record of itc 

 occurrence in Cumberland, Westmoreland, 

 Lancashire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Shropshire, 

 Staffordshire, or Lincolnshire; but from York- 

 shire I have several records. In the other 

 midland, and in all the southern counties, it 

 ocelli's not uncommonly, but always in re- 

 stricted spaces, generally confining itself to a 

 single field or rough pasture. It is very 

 partial to rough ground, and seems to avoid 

 the shelter of woods. 



Berkshire. At Burghfield, near Reading 

 (7. S. Bird. 



Buckinghamshire. Drayton Beauchamp 

 and Claydon H. H. Crewe; at Halton once 

 only J. Greene. 



Cambridgeshire. Near Duxford F. Bond; 

 common throughout the county Thomas 

 Brown. 



Cornwall. Werrington Park, Launceston, 

 Penheale, Egleskerry Geo. 0. Bignell. 



Devonshire. Various localities in the 

 county J. HeUins; along the Devon coast 

 from Dartmouth to Babbington Geo. C. 

 Bignell; Plymbridge E. James, jw*i. ; in a 



limestone quarry at Berry Pomeroy, Buck- 

 fastleigh, Exeter, Axminster, Sidmouth 

 J. J. Reading. 



Dorsetshire. A single specimen was taken 

 at Glanville's Wootton in 1G89 by C. W. Dale: 

 it formerly occurred there in plenty; common 

 at Lulworth, Charmoutb, Blandford, and 

 Dorchester J. G. Dale. 



Essex. Epping Edward Doubleday ; I 

 have taken three or four specimens on the 

 railway banks near Lexden ; it has disap- 

 peared from Hartley Wood, St. Osyth's, where 

 it was formerly common W. H. Harwooa ; 

 common at Herne Bay H. D. Greville. 



Glamorganshire. Common in the county 

 Evan John ; I have occasionally seen it near 

 Ynisygerwn J. T. D. Llewelyn. 



Gloucestershire. Common on all the hills 

 about Wootton-uuder-Edge V. R. Perkins; 

 abundant in many localities Joseph Merrin; 

 Bussage and the neighbourhood, Bacon Tump, 

 Dane way Common, Folley Lane, Sapperton 

 M. G. Musgrave; Common at Guiting Joseph 

 Greene ; near Stroud Alfred E. Hudd. 



Hampshire. Leigh Wood and Durrance 

 Common W. Buckler; Lyndhurst,NewForest 

 F. Bond; Woolmer Forest G. G. Barrett; 

 there is a locality for this insect near Fording- 

 bridge, in the same meadow in which Artemis 

 occurs H. Ramsay Cox; Parley Heath, 

 Bishopstoke, near Winchester J. C. Dale ; 

 Southwick, Witham Hill, near Petersfield 

 Henry Moncreaff; Emsworth W. H. Draper. 



Herefordshire. Oakley Park, abundant 

 F. E. Harman. 



Hertfordshire. Woodcock Hill, near 

 Elstree F. Bond. 



Huntingdonshire. Monk's Wood, in profu- 

 sion J. H. White ; near Sawtry F. Bond. 



Kent. Folkestone, East Cliff, fields round 

 Dover Castle, plentiful G. H. Raynor ; Da- 

 renth Wood, in profusion twenty years ago 

 in one particular spot, nearly destitute of 

 trees, in which Chelonia Plantaginis also 

 abounded; also in a little chalk-pit at Green- 

 hithe E. Newman ; Lees Court Park, Chil- 

 ham Park, and above Dane Court, Chilham 

 H. A. Stowell; Gravesend W. Machin; 

 very abundant at Herne, also at Margate anU 



