JTvRitingdonshire. Monkswood, 8tl), June, 

 common J. II. White. 



Kent. Very common in all the Kentish 

 woods at the beginning of June ; as West 

 Wood, Shooter's Hill, Birch Wood, Joynson's 

 Wood, Dyrenth Wood, &c. E. Newman; 

 Fork Common, near Sevenoaks G. II. 

 Raynor ; on the large woodlands between 

 Barhatn Downs and tlie hills extending from 

 Folkstone to Wye W. 0. Hammond; in 

 every wood about Faversham and Canterbury 

 H. A . S to well. 



Lancashire. Abundant J. B. Hodgkinson. 

 Lincolnshire. Common T. II. Allis, 

 Middlesex. Scratch Wood, near Edgware 

 -F. Bond. 



Monmouthshire. Common George Lock. 

 Norfolk. Near Norwich 0. G. Barrett. 

 Northamptonshire. Near Wadenham F. 

 Bond ; near Towcester Hamlet Clark. 



Northumberland. Near Hexham William 

 Moling. 



Nottinghamshire. Very common at Mans- 

 6eld E. E. Brameld. 



Somersetshire. Brockley, Clevedon, and 

 many other places A. E. Hudd. 



Staffordshire. Burnt Wood Rev. T. W. 

 Daltry, Charnwood Forest Edwin Brown. 



Suffolk. Coomb, Bentley, &c. H. II. 

 Crewe ; Brand eston and Play ford Joseph 

 Greene; Sudbury W. D. King. 



Surrey. Haslemere 0. G. Barrett. 

 Sussex. Very abundant in woody parts 

 of the Weald, Plashet, Abbot's Wood, &c. 

 E. Jenner ; Harting Coombe W. Buckler; 

 Frenchlands J. H. White. 



Warwickshire. Rugby G. B. Longstaff. 

 Westmoreland. Witherslack, abundant 

 ./. B. Hodgkinson. 



Wight, Isle of. Hyde, Sandown, Park- 

 hurst, Quarr Copse, &c. Alfred Owen, James 

 Pristo. 



Wiltshire. Savernake Forest T. A. 

 Preston. 



Worcestershire. Monk's Wood, common 

 J. E. Fletcher. 



Yorkshire. Near York, plentiful on moors 

 and in fir plantations near Cloughton J. H. 

 Jiowntree; Scarborough Edwin Birchall. 



Family 2. GREGARIOUS FIUTILLAKIES (in scl-ence 

 (Melitvtidce). 



The caterpillars are almost uniformly cylin- 

 drical and almost uniformly spiny, but the 

 spines are short and blunt ; they are grega- 

 rious through the autumn, winter, and early 

 spring, feeding in company, under a web of 

 their own construction, on the leaves oi 

 various species of germander (Teucrium), 

 speedwell (Veronica), cow-wheat (Mehn.ipy- 

 rum), plantain (Plantago), scabious (Scabiosa), 

 and other low-growing plants : most of them 

 are confined to one food-plant, but others are 

 equally common on three or four different 

 species. The chrysalids are suspended among 

 the leaves or on the stems of the food-plants, 

 often in little companies of eight or ten 

 together ; they are almost without angles, 

 stout, blunt-headed, and remarkable for their 

 beautiful ornamentation of black and orange 

 spots on a whitish ground. The perfect insects 

 have knobbed antennae ; the costal margin of 

 the fore wings is straight, or nearly so, and 

 the flight languid. The colour of the upper 

 surface of the wings is brown, generally of one 

 shade, but sometimes of two, and invariably 

 spotted with black ; the underside of the 

 hind wings is tesselated with browns and 

 yellows. They are remarkable for their ad- 

 herence to very limited localities, most of them 

 spending their lives within a few yards of the 

 spot where the eggs from which they were 

 produced were deposited by their parents. 

 Like domesticated pigeons, they take their 

 little trips about their homestead, but have no 

 propensity to forsake its immediate neigh- 

 bourhood. We have but three species in this 

 country, all of them at present included in the 

 genus Melitcea, but the first species will pro- 

 bably be separated on account of certain 

 peculiarities in the structure of its scales. 



8. Greasy Fritillary (Afe!it<Ea.4rfemfc). Upper siae. 



