HAIRSTREAKS. 



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Herefordshire. At Hunters' Gate, Oakley 

 Park F. E. Harman ; Briarly Wood, near 

 Leorainster E, Newman. 



Hertfordshire. Berkhampstead, common 

 G. H. Raynor. 



Huntingdonshire. Monk's Wood F. 

 Bond. 



Kent. Birch Wood, Joynson's Wood, Da- 

 ren th Wood, wood at Chislehurst, West 

 Wcod on Shooter's Hill towards Welling 

 E. Newman; common on the borders of woods, 

 abundant at Faversham H. A. Stowell ; 

 Collyer's Wood W. Machin ; woods gpnr- 

 rally north and south of Barham Downs IF. 

 Oxenden Hammond. 



Lancashire. Not rare in North Lancashire, 

 Grange, &c. J. B. Hodgkinson; Silverdale 

 James Mwton. 



Lincolnshire T. H. Allis. 



Northamptonshire. Barn well Wold, the 

 L) nc-lies, near Peterborough Frederick 

 Bond ; near Towcester Hamlet Clark. 



Oxfordshire. Stowe and Bagley Woods 

 and Wychwood Forest W. H. Draper. 



Somersetshire. Weston-super-Mare A. E. 

 Hudd. 



Suffolk. Near Stowmarket //. H. Crew ; 

 Brandeston and Playford Joseph Greene. 



Surrey. Haslemere : This species occurs 

 here ill an extensive copse intersected with 

 deep valleys : it frequents the bottoms of 

 these valleys, where it flits about over the 

 underwood, almost always returning to one 

 particular spray ; indeed, certain bushes, and 

 even twigs, seem to be especially to their 

 taste, since if one be taken another soon 

 occupies its place. In this way one alder 

 bush afforded me two or three specimens ; and 

 a little oak bush, in a particular warm and 

 pleasant corner, was always sure to have a 

 fresh tenant in a few hours, or, at any rate, in 

 a day or two after the previous occupant had 

 been captured. Occasionally, though rarely, 

 a specimen would settle on a spurge bloom, 

 the only flower they appeared to affect. 

 C. G. Barrett, in " Entomologists' Monthly 

 Magazine" No. 29. 



Sussex. Watergate Hanger William 

 Buckler ; Frenchlands Wood J. H. White. 



Westmoreland. Witherslack, not rare J. 

 B. Hodgkinson. 



Wight, Isle of, Near Ryde F. Bond; 

 Parkhurst, Quarr Copse, Whiteford Wood 

 Alfred Owen ; in woods, but not common 

 Jatne? Pristo. 



Wiltshire. Manton and Rabley coppices, 

 West Woods T. A. Preston. 



Worcestershire. Taken sparingly about 

 two miles from Great Malvern W. Edwards. 



Yorkshire. Abundant near Pickering in 

 1868 J. H. Rowntree ; Scarborough, Shef- 

 field, York, Leeds Edunn Birchall ; Don- 

 caster A'fred Ecroyd. 



Family 8. AKGUS BUTTERFLIES (in science 

 LyC'Knidae) . 



In the general characters of theii- cater- 

 pillars and chrysalids they closely resemble 

 the Eryeinidw, but in the perfect state they 

 differ in having all the six legs perfectly 

 formed for walking in both sexes. They are 

 further divided, both by English entomologists 

 and by technical authors, into Hairstreaks (in 

 science Thecla), Coppers (in science Polyom- 

 rnatus), and Blues (in science Lampides and 

 Lyccena). 



32. Green Hairatreak (Thecla Rubi). Upper sido. 



Under side. 



32. GREEN HAIRSTREAK. The costal mar- 

 gin of the fore wings is nearly straight, the 

 tip blunt, and the hind margin simple ; the 

 hind margin of the hind wings is scalloped, 

 the point nearest the apical angle beingsl'ghtly 

 produced. The colour .of the upper side is 

 dark brown, exhibiting metallic reflections in 

 a strong light ; near the -Base of the wings are 



