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BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



Folkestone H. Ramsay Cox; abundant 

 everywhere on the chalk downs near Folke- 

 stone W. Oxenden Hammond. 



Middlesex. Kingsbmy, and near Edge- 

 ware F. Bond. 



Monmouthshire. Common near Heullis' 

 Wood George Lock. 



Norfolk. Kirby Lane, near Beccles, but j 

 confined to a single marsh W. M. Crowfoot. 



Northamptonshire. Near Barnwell Wold 

 F. Bond ; plentiful in Barnwell and Ash- 

 ton Wolds in July William Bree. 



Nottinghamshire. Common at Kirton, 

 near Tuxford, also at Worsop and Mansfield 

 R. E. Brameld ; in one field at Egmanton, 

 near Tuxford, in profusion George Gascoyne. 



Somersetshire. Clevedon, Portishead 

 F. D. Wheeler; Bedminster A. E. Hudd. 



Suffolk. Beccles C. G. Barrett. 



Surrey. Between Bushridge and High- 

 down's Ball, near Godalming, Hindhead, 

 Mickleham, Headly Lane, in one field only 

 E. Newman; Haslemere C. G. Barrett. 



Sussex. Very abundant at the Holmbush, 

 and here and there in other places, but very 

 local E. Jenner ; very numerous in Abbot's 

 Wood C. V. G. Levett ; near Horsham and 

 near Brighton, in both instances confined to a 

 very small space E. Newman; Lewis- 

 Stainton's "Manual." 



Warwickshire. In woods near Knowle, 

 but it has not been taken for many years 

 Frederick Enock. 



Wight (Isle of). Near Yarmouth F. 

 Bond ; Ventnor, Parkliurst, Whitoford Wood, 

 Bembridge Alfred Owen; abundant in rough 

 pastures, but remarkably local James Pristo. 



Wiltshire. Great Bedwyn, Savernake 

 Forest, seen near Westlands T. A. Preston. 



Worcestershire. Meadows at Himbledon, 

 and near Monk's Wood, but uncommon of late 

 years J. E. Fletcher ; a single specimen has 

 been taken at Great Malvern ; it occui-s plen- 

 tifully a few miles from Malvern W. Ed- 

 wards. 



Yorkshire. Near York Robert Cook ; 

 Scarborough and Sheffield Edwin Bircliall ; 

 common in Yorkshire T. II. Allis ; it used 

 to be found in Melton Wood, near Doncaster, 



but has been extinct since a field that bor- 

 dered the wood was ploughed ; I do not think 

 it is ever now found near Dcncastei 1 Alfred 

 Ecroyd. 



21. THE SMALL RINGLET (Erebia Fpiphron). 

 Upper side. 



Under side. 



21. THE SMALL RINGLET. The wings are 

 rounded and of a deep sepia-brown colour, 

 with a broad but indistinct ferruginous trans- 

 verse band parallel with the hind margin of 

 all the wings ; this band is divided into com- 

 partments by the wing-rays, which are of the 

 sepia-brown ground-colour ; in each of the 

 compartments there is usually a circular black 

 spot, and the compartments themselves in the 

 hind wings frequently assume a cii'cular 

 form. The under side is very similar to th.3 

 upper, but the colours are more suffused, and 

 their boundaries less distinct : in some speci- 

 mens the rust-colour is suffused over the 

 central disk of the fore wings : in the hind- 

 wings the ferruginous spots are very small, 

 and the black pupil in each is reduced to a 

 mere dot. 



Varieties. When Mr. Weaver discovered 

 this insect in Scotland as presently related, I 

 could not satisfy myself that it was identical 

 with the butterfly of the Lake District, but 

 supposed it to be the Papilio Melampus of 

 Esper. Under this mistaken impression I 

 published a detailed description at page 732 

 of the second volume of the " Zoologist," 



