HAIRSTREAKS. 



being tinged with yellow, and the furrow 

 itself tinged with brown. On each side of 

 each segment are two slender oblique lines of 

 a yellowish-white colour. When the cater- 

 pillar is at rest, the upper of these lines on 

 each segment meets the lower line on the next 

 segment, thus forming a series of eight oblique 

 lateral lines. The CHRYSALIS is short arid 

 stout, attached to a twig, or sometimes to a 

 leaf, by a belt, and also by the anal ex- 

 trem ity Newman. 



TIME OF APPEARANCE. The egg has been 

 found in the winter glued to the rind of elm 

 twigs ; the caterpillar has been beaten in June, 

 and the butterfly taken on the wing in July. 



LOCALITIES. Mr. Birchall has not met with 

 this butterfly in Ireland or the Isle of Man, 

 iior does Dr. Buchanan White mention having 

 observed it in Scotland. In England it is 

 very widely distributed, and sometimes occurs 

 abundantly ; still it cannot be considered a 

 common butterfly. 



Berkshire. At Burgh field, near Reading, 

 this insect appeared in the greatest profusion 

 in my own garden in 1829 or 1830 C. /S. 

 Bird. 



Buckinghamshire. In gardens William 

 Walker. 



Cambridgeshire. Generally distributed in 

 the county Thomas Brown. 



Derbyshire. Darley, Calke Abbey H. II . 

 Crewe; Cubley, one specimen Joseph Greene. 



Dorsetshire. Buck land Newton very many 

 years ago. I possess the specimen /". C. 

 Dale. 



Essex. Epping Edward DoubleJay ; in 

 Bergholt Woods, near Colchester W. H. 

 Harwood. 



Gloucestershire. Near Gloucester, but rare 

 Joseph Merrin; Clifton Alfred E. Hudd. 



Hampshire. One specimen has been taken 

 in the New Forest G. B. Corbyn; one 

 specimen at Southsea Henry Moncreaff. 



Herefordshire. One caterpillar taken at the 

 Bache Mrs. Hutchinson; rare at Oakley 

 Park F. E. Harman. 



H?iatingdonshire. Near Stilton J. C. 



Dal*. 



.K.ent. Neighbourhood of Bridge, near 



Canterbury occasionally W. 0. Hammond ; 

 caterpillar on elms near the Fox and Hounds 

 public-house at Darenth Wood E. Newman. 



Lincolnshire. In Lincolnshire T. H 

 Allis. 



Northamptonshire. Barnwell Wold in July 

 William Bree. 



Nottinghamshire. One specimen at Newark 

 George Gascoyne ; Will in Wood, near Oiler- 

 ton, rare E. E. Brameld. 



Shropshire. Benthall Edge ~C. G. Barrett. 



Somersetshire. Brock ley A. E. Hudd. 



Staffordshire. Burton-on-Trent and Brin- 

 lincote Edwin Brown. 



Suffolk. Generally distributed over the 

 county H. H. Crewe; Brandeston and 

 Playford Joseph Greene; one specimen at 

 Wolsingham Park W.M. Crowfoot; Dodnash 

 Wood IT. //. Harwood; Haverhill W. 

 Gaze; Sudbury W. D. King. 



Surrey. Guildford, Godalming, Witley, 

 Cobham E. Newman. This species is usually 

 esteemed a rare insect in the neighbourhood 

 of London, and previously to the last season 

 I never saw it alive ; but the boundless pro- 

 fusion with which the hedges for miles, in the 

 vicinity of Ripley, were enlivened by the 

 myriads that hovered over every flower and 

 bramble-blossom last July exceeded anything 

 of the kind I have ever witnessed. Some 

 notion of their numbers may be formed when 

 I mention that I captured, without moving 

 from the spot, nearly two hundred specimens 

 in less than half an hour, as they approached 

 the bramble-bush near which I had taken up 

 my position. I am perfectly unable to account 

 for their prodigious numbers, as the same fields 

 and hedges had been carefully explored by me 

 at the same and at different periods of the year 

 for several preceding seasons without the oc- 

 currence of a single specimen in either of its 

 stages ; and it is worthy of remark that the 

 hedges to the north and north-east of Ripley 

 were perfectly free, although the brambles, 

 &c., were in plenty. /. F. Stephens. My 

 lamented friend has often told me of this 

 "miraculous draught" of the Black Hair- 

 streak, but although then living near the 

 spot, and always on the alert for captures, 



