INSECTS 



The Large Cabbage White (Pieris brassica, L.), the Small Cabbage 

 White (P. rapes ^ L.) and the Green-veined White (P. napi, L.) are 

 generally distributed throughout the county and are usually abun- 

 dant. The Bath White (P. daplidice^ L.) has been recorded by Mr. 

 Sydney Webb as having been taken singly at the Hilly Field, 

 Headley and near Box Hill, but no captures have been reported 

 since 1860. The Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines, L.) is generally 

 distributed in lanes, fields and woods and is often abundant. The 

 Brimstone (Gonepteryx rbamni, L.) is generally distributed throughout 

 the county and is common in many places where its food plant is plenti- 

 ful, but I have never seen it as common in Surrey as it is in the New 

 Forest and in many of the Sussex woods. 



The Clouded Yellow (Golias edusa, Fb.) is generally distributed in 

 the county in favourable seasons, and has been taken commonly in the 

 suburban districts about Reigate, Croydon, Surbiton, Hook, Chessington 

 and elsewhere. It was plentiful in clover and lucerne fields close to 

 Surbiton in 1877, 1888, 1893 and 1900. Mr. T. H. Briggs also 

 records it from Betchworth, Ranmore and Leatherhead. The white 

 variety of the female (var. helice) generally occurs with the type more 

 or less commonly. Mr. Sydney Webb says that in the great edusa 

 year of 1877 the var. he lice occurred at the rate of about 20 per cent 

 to the type. In some seasons it averages only about 5 per cent to 

 the type. The Pale Clouded Yellow (C. byale y L.) is generally dis- 

 tributed in the county in certain seasons. The late Edward Newman 

 recorded it as being common at New Cross in 1835. Mr. Barrett 

 recorded it from Haslemere in 1868 and Mr. Sydney Webb says it 

 was common on the railway bank at Buckland in 1876. It occurred 

 sparingly about Surbiton, Hook and Chessington in 1893 and com- 

 monly in clover fields in the same localities in 1900. The Silver 

 Washed Fritillary (Argynnis paphia^ L.) occurs sparingly in most of the 

 woods in the county, but is very rare in the metropolitan district. 

 It has been recorded by Mr. Sydney Webb from Tilburstow and 

 Glutton's Wood south of Redhill, by Mr. J. G. Hewat from the 

 Prince's Covers near Claygate, 1 by Mr. T. H. Briggs from Headley 

 Lane and Mickleham. The writer has taken it occasionally in Headley 

 Lane by the skle of Sir Lucas Pepys' wood, and in the wooded valleys 

 between the locality last named and Betchworth. It also occurs 

 sparingly about the Sheep Leas, West Horsley, and in the woods on 

 Shiere Common ; but it is not, apparently, abundant in Surrey as it is in 

 the New Forest and in many other Hampshire woods, or in the 

 Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, and in some of the Sussex woods. 

 I have never seen in Surrey the greenish black variety of the female 

 va/ezina which is so common in the New Forest. The Dark 

 Green Fritillary (A. ag/aia, L.) is generally distributed on the chalk 

 downs in the centre of the county, especially at the base of the hills 



1 It must be very rare in this locality, as I have never seen more than one or two in a season. 

 H. G. 



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