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BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



with innumerable minute black dots, and emits 

 a great number of feeble whitish hairs : the 

 legs are black and the claspers gray. About 

 the middle of May the caterpillar spins a 

 milk-white web over the surface of the haw- 

 thorn twigs, and, affixing itself to this, pre- 

 pares for changing to a chrysalis, a compound 

 silken cord being first attached to the bides. 

 The CHRYSALIS has the head obtusely pointed, 

 the back of the thorax is sharply keeled, and 

 the shoulders prominent ; the body has also a 

 dorsal keel, and on each side a lateral keel, 

 but neither of them is so prominent as that of 

 the thorax; and the body terminates in a 

 curved and flattened horn, which is furnished 

 at the extremity with the usual hooks. The 

 prevailing colour is yellowish white, varied 

 with pure yellow and spotted with black ; the 

 brighter yellow is principally observable in 

 the more salient points, as of the head and 

 shoulders, and the lateral and dorsal keels of 

 the abdomen ; but in these latter it is inter- 

 rupted and incontinuous; the black forms a 

 broad continuous stripe down the ventral sur- 

 face, including the cases of the head, legs, 

 and antennae ; the v\ ing-cases are yellow, 

 bordered and spotted with black ; the dorsal 

 keel of the thorax is black, and the abdomen 

 is abundantly spotted with black ; the anal 

 horn is yellow, with three longitudinal black 

 marks. Newman. 



TIME OP APPEARANCE. June and July : in 

 perfection about midsummer. 



LOCALITIES. I believe this butterfly is un- 

 known in Ireland, Scotland, or the Isle of 

 Man : the name appears in Mr. Greene's Irish 

 list, on the authority of a Mr. Hely, but 

 neither Mr. Greene nor Mr. Birchall appears 

 to have seen Irish specimens. In England we 

 have many recorded localities. 



Berkshire. Burghfield, near Reading G. 

 S. Bird. 



(Devonshire. Moreton Stainton's " Ma- 

 nual ; " not known now.) 



(Dorsetshire. Glanville's Wootton, but I 

 have not seen it for fifty-five years J. C. 

 Dale.) 



(Glamorganshire. Formerly abundant, but 

 I have not seen one for many years Evan 



John ; formerly abundant at Ynisygerwn, but 

 not for many years J. T. D. Lleicelyn.) 



Gloucestershire Used to occur at Badge- 

 worth Joseph, Merrin ; near Bristol Alfred 



E. Uudd. 



Hampshire. Near Petersfield H. Harpur 

 Crewe ; near Lyndhurst^indBrockenhurst 



F. Bond; Liphook C. G. Barrett; New 

 Forctt J. C. Dale; Southsea, Waltham 

 Henry M oner caff; Emsworth W. U. Draper. 



Herefordshire. Formerly common at Eton 

 Wood, near Leominhter ; 1 have seen it in 

 cloudy weather settled almost by hundreds on 

 the blossoms of the great moon-daisy (Chrysan- 

 themum leucant/iemunt) E. Newman ; very 

 rarely met with at Kimbolton Mrs.Hutchin- 

 on. 



Huntingdonshire. Monk's Wood on the 

 3rd of June H.Doubleday ; Monk's Wood 

 F. Bond. 



Kent. Luddenham, Dimkirk, Shottenden 

 Selling H. A. Stowell ; most abundant at 

 Heine Bay in 1858 : we used, by way of 

 amusement, to see how many we could catch 

 at one stroke of the net ; we often took four 

 or fhe at a time : they appeared particularly 

 fond of fields of broad beans H. Ramsay 

 Cox; local at Wingham ; near Nonington, 

 Slurry, uncertain in appearance W. 0. 

 Hammond / in profusion at Strood Francis 

 Latchmore ; Minster Lanes and Home Park, 

 near Ramsgate B. F. Turrtbutt, 



Monmouthshire. Common, its range ex- 

 tending from about a mile below Cardiff to a 

 place called Llanwem, a distance of about 

 fifteen miles George Lock. 



Northamptonshire. Barnwell Wold, and 

 near Peterborough F. Bond; near Tow- 

 cester Hamlet Clark. 



Somersetshire. Clevedon, Worle Alfred 

 E.Hudd. 



Sussex. At the Holmbush, between Hen- 

 field and Hurst ; I have neither seen it nor 

 heard of its being taken elsewhere in the 

 county Edward Jenner. 



Wight, Isle of. Rare in the Isle of Wight 

 F. Bond; Quart Copse Alfred Owen. 



Worcestershire. Great Malvern, scarce 

 W, Edwards. 



