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BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



Staffordshire. Swinnerton Old Park T. 

 W. Daltry. 



Suffolk. Brandeston and Playford Joseph 

 Greene ; Stowmarket and Bentley H. H. 

 Crewe. 



Surrey. Common at Haslemere G. G. 

 Barrett. 



Sussex. Bolney Wood W. Buckler ; 

 Frenchlands Woods, Ashington J. H. White ; 

 Abbot's Wood, near Hailsham : the first 

 brood in May, the second in August C. V. 

 C. Levitt. 



Westmoreland. Abundant at Witherslack, 

 and not rare at Windermere J. B. Hodgkin- 

 son. 



Wight, Isle of. Near Brading, but rare in 

 the Isle of Wight F. Rond ; Quarr Copse 

 and Appledurcombe Parks Alfred Owen; 

 very local in the Isle of Wight : I only 

 know of one locality, at Whippingham 

 James Pristo. 



Wiltshire. Sinapis has been taken in 

 Savernake Forest and Eabley Copse ; also at 

 Great Bedwyn, but very rarely T. A. Pres- 

 ton ; common at Wilton, near Salisbury 

 W. H. Grigg. 



Worcestershire. It occurs sparingly in all 

 the woods in which T have collected J. E. 

 Fletcher ; formerly plentiful at Great Mal- 

 vern, but not so now ; the second brood is 

 less abundant than the first W. Edwards ; 

 Bromsgrove W. H. Draper. 



From the careful county lists, kindly trans- 

 mitted me from Cheshire, Derbyshire, Hert- 

 fordshire, Lincolnshire, Middlesex, Norfolk, 

 Shropshire, Somersetshire, and Warwickshire, 

 the name of Sinapis is absent : a fact not 

 proving, perhaps, the absence of the insect, 

 but showing certainly that it is not common. 



54. ORANGE - TIP. All the wings are 

 rounded, and the costal margin of the fore 

 wings is slightly arched : the colour is white, 

 with a dart gray tip and a central black spot. 

 In the males there is a large patch on each 

 fore wing, extending from the gray margin to 

 the central spot, and occupying about half the 

 wing, of a most brilliant orange red : in the 

 female this is wanting, but the dark gray tip 



54. Orange-tip (Anthocharis Cardamines). Upper 

 side of Male, Upper side of Female, Under side 

 of Male. 



and central spot are larger and more conspi- 

 cuous in that sex than in the male ; the 

 central spot in the female is also decidedly 

 crescentic. The under side of the fore wings 

 in the male has the orange-coloured blotch 

 narrower than on the upper side, and the gray 

 colour assumes the form of a hind-marginal 

 band, and is sprinkled with minute yellow 

 scales, which impart a greenish hue to this 

 part : the under side of the hind wings in 

 both sexes is exquisitely tesselated with 

 smoky-gray spots on a white ground, the 

 gray portions of the wing being powdered 

 with yellow, which communicates to them a 

 greenish tint. 



Varieties. I have a specimen of this butter- 

 fly in which the whole of the ground colour is a 

 beautiful canary yellow, and I believe there 

 are several others. Abnormities, in which 

 the orange blotch occurs on only one of the 

 fore wings, or only on the upper side or 

 under side, sometimes occur ; they find great 

 favour in the eyes of collectors. 



LIFE HISTORY. The female lays her EGGE 



