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BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



terminates in a yellowish dot ; on each seg- 

 ment, between the medio-dorsal and lateral 

 stripes, is an orange-coloured, wart-like and 

 hairy spot; there is a second indistinct lateral 

 stripe near the spiracles, which is olive-green 

 at its anterior extremity, but fades into yellow 

 towards the anal extremity ; the spiracles are 

 black ; the ventral surface is pale olive-green. 

 The CHRYSALIS is obese, and its head rounded ; 

 it is attached by the tail, and also by a belt 

 round the waist, to the leaf or petiole of the 

 food-plant ; all parts of the body emit longish 

 hairs, in the same manner as the caterpillar : 

 the colour is the most delicate pale wainscot- 

 brown, with a number of black spots ; the 

 principal of these are a narrow band passing 

 over the neck immediately behind the base of 

 the antenna-case; a shorter band behind this, 

 but in front of the thorax ; a short 4ripe on 

 the cnsta of each wing case, and numerous 

 subquadrate spots spread over the entire 

 dorsal surface ; these are disposed in two 

 dorsal series of eleven each, and two lateral 

 series on each side ; these spots are irregular 

 and minute on the thorax, but regular and 

 conspicuous on the abdomen, where is also a 

 third intervening series of minute dots ; all 

 the hairs are sienna-brown. It remains in the 

 chrysalis state throughout the winter. New- 

 man. 



TIME OP APPEARANCE. Caterpillar on the 

 under side of cowslip and primrose leaves in 

 June, July, and August; the chrysalis during 

 the winter, and the butterfly in June. 



Obs. At page 44 of the third volume of 

 the " Entomologist," Mr. Wright announces 

 that he bred two specimens on the 8th Feb- 

 ruary ; and at page 204 of the same volume 

 the Rev. H. Harpur Crewe records that he 

 reared a second brood of Lucina in 1865. He 

 says the larvae grew up and assumed the 

 chrysalis state very rapidly, and he left them, 

 supposing they would remain in that state 

 until the following summer ; but on looking 

 itito the cage in October, he found the perfect 

 insects had emerged, and were dead and dry. 



LOCALITIES. Always in woods, flying along 

 the roads and pathways with a giddy zig-zag 

 flight, and occasionally settling on twigs six 



or eight feet from the ground ; apparently 

 fonder of leaves than flowers, on which it 

 seems rarely to feed. I doubt its occurrence 

 in Ireland, notwithstanding the following 

 note from the pen of Mr. Birchall : 



"In Mr. Tardy's collection, now incor- 

 porated with that of Trinity College, Dublin, 

 there are specimens of this insect, but I am 

 unable to say where captured, most probably 

 in the county Wicklow, a county he searched 

 assiduously for many years. I have not met 

 with the insect." Edwin Birchall. 



With such diligent and energetic resident 

 entomologists as Mrs. Batters by, the Hon. 

 Miss Lawless, and Mr. Fetherstonhaugh, it 

 cannot long remain unknown if it be really a 

 native of the Emerald Isle. It has not been 

 found in Scotland or the Isle of Man. In 

 England it has a wide, but what may be called 

 a capricious range, as the subjoined localities 

 will show. 



Bedfordshire. Clapham Park Woods 

 Staintoris " Manual." 



Berkshire. Burghtield, near Reading 

 C. S. Bird. 



Buckinghamshire. Drayton Beauchamp, 

 Aston Clinton, Bucklaud, Claydon H. II. 

 Crewe ; Halton Joseph Greene. 



Cumberland. Not rare J. B. Hodgkinson. 



Derbyshire. Via Gallia, near Cromford 

 H. H. Crewe. 



Devonshire. Rare ; not in the Plymouth 

 district, and not known to occur farther west 

 than Dartmouth ; Dunsford Wood, near Dart- 

 mouth J. J. Reading. 



Dorsetshire. Glanville's Wootton, Middle- 

 march Woods, Cranbourne Chace, rare of late 

 years J. C. Dale. 



Essex. St. Osyth W. H. Harwood. 



Gloucestershire. Wootton-under-Edge ; in 

 the open parts of our woods very local, but 

 generally abundant where found V. R. Per- 

 kins ; Painswick, Daneway Common, Sapper- 

 ton M. G. Musgrave ; Guiting Joseph 

 Greene ; common at Dursley Evan John. 



Hampshire. NearBrockenhurst F. Bond; 

 in the New Forest, but not common G. B. 

 Corbyn; Crabbe Wood, near Winchester, 

 tolerably abundant G. H. Raynor. 



