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BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



Bedfordshire. Clapham Park Woods 

 Staintorts "Manual." 



Berkshire. Burghn'eld, near Reading C. 

 S. Bird. 



Buckinghamshire. At Claydon I observed 

 several specimens flying about the tops of the 

 oaks in the woods here last month (August), 

 but although I procured a pole about twenty 

 feet long for my net I was unable to take any 

 //. H. Crewe. 



Cambridgeshire. Woods near Cambridge 

 Thomas Brown. 



Devonshire. Occurs occasionally near 

 Barnstaple, North Devon G. F. Mathew. 



Dorsetshire. Woodland Wood, near Han- 

 ford, the seat of the late H. Seytner, F.L.S., 

 and near Cranborne J. C. Dale. 



Essex. Very rare at Epping. but common 

 at Colchester Edward Doubleday, in 1833 ; 

 formerly common in the High Woods, Col- 

 chester, but I have not seen a specimen since 

 1860, and it has disappeared from all the 

 other woods where it formerly occurred in the 

 vicinity of Colchester. The last specimen 

 taken here was flying round a moderator 

 lamp in the evening, in the town itself. It 

 still occurs at Coggeshall. and in Slorr Wood, 

 near Ramsay W. H. JIarwood ; Saffron 

 Walden W. R. Jeffrey. 



Gloucestershire. Forest of Dean W. 

 Langley. 



Hampshire. Near Lyndhurst and Brocken- 

 hurst F. Bond; occasionally in the New 

 Forest, but uncommon J. B, Corbyn ; 

 Burton, near Christchurch J. C. Dale ; 

 Southwick Henry Moncreaff; Emsworth 

 W. H. Draper; Ring wood W. G. 

 Wilkinson. 



Huntingdonshire. Monkswood andBramp- 

 ton Wood, not uncommon, but very difficult 

 to capture J. H. While; Woods near 

 Peterborough F. Bond. 



Kent. Tenterden S. C. Tress Beale ; 

 Daventh Wrod William Machin ; Perry 

 Wood, Selling H. A. Stowell ; it is stated 

 to occur in the woods round Pluckley, but I 

 cannot report this from personal knowledge 

 W. 0. Hammond ; Knowle Park, near Seven- 

 oaks Slainton's " Manual" ; in the town of 



Ashford, settling on the front of a house A. 

 Russell. 



Leicestershire. Leicester Staintons 

 " Manual." 



Lincolnshire. About Lincoln, Bardney 

 Wood, and in South Lincolnshire T. II. Allis. 



Middlesex. Caen Wood, near Hampstead 

 J. F. Stephens. 



Monmouthshire. In the Forest of Dean 

 W. Langley. 



Northamptonshire. "Early in the morning, 

 and on damp, gloomy days, I have several times 

 seen to the greatest advantage as I conceive, 

 the most splendid of all our butterflies (Apa- 

 tura Iris] at Barnwell and Aston Wolds, 

 sailing along the ridings, and settling upon the 

 ruts and other moist and muddy spots, often 

 assailed by the impudent attack of Epineplide 

 Janira and Melanagria Galathea, which 

 appear to be the foremost in attacking him 

 when he thus condescends to leave for a while 

 his lofty oak to visit the regions inhab'ted by 

 his less honourable kindred. The partiality 

 which this insect exhibits for individual sprigs 

 of particular trees has often been remarked 

 upon by entomologists, and is certainly con- 

 firmed by the Emperors of this neighbour- 

 hood. And it should almost seem as if this 

 partiality were, if I may use the expression, 

 hereditary ; for upon a certain sprig of a small 

 ash-tree, by the side of one of the ridings in 

 Barnwell Wold, I have each year since 1847 

 succeeded in capturing the Purple Emperor ; 

 and in all instances, upon the capture of one, 

 the identical sprig has in the course of a few 

 days, if not within a few hours, been in- 

 variably occupied by another Emperor" 

 William Bree ; the Lynches F. Bond ; Ket- 

 tering William Sturgess. 



Nottinghamshire. Occurs occasionally at 

 Ollerton; in 1859 I had a fine female given 

 me alive. It was taken inside a pigsty near 

 the edge of Willow Wood, three miles from 

 Ollerton R. E. Brarndd ; occasionally near 

 Newark George Gascoyne. 



Somersetshire. A friend informs me he has 

 taken 7m at Clive Coombe, about two miles 

 from Bristol F. D. Wlieelcr ; a specimen 

 reported from Brockle; W. H. Grigg, 



