BUTTERFLY FLIGHT 179 



the blossoming thyme. May saw the appearance of the 

 first annual generation, but the wall is associated more 

 closely with later summer. Now, too, in a ' clouded yellow 

 year ' the first specimens of this delightful butterfly generally 

 begin to show themselves, though some may have been seen 

 as early as June in the clover-fields along the Kent and 

 Sussex coast. They, too, become commoner and more 

 widely spread in August ; and from their wandering habits 

 they are often noticed over a wider and wider area as the 

 month goes on, though they are not necessarily newly 

 hatched specimens. They will linger about the late clover 

 and in the scabious fields until the revolving year puts the 

 memory of the fritillaries in the wood-clearing far behind us, 

 and the shadows muster in the red admiral's autumnal 

 wings. 



