140 BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



tawny, and dark brown or black. It appears in May 

 and June, and again in August, being found in woods, 

 principally in the south, and its range is often confined 

 to a small spot hardly fifty yards in diameter, within 

 which it may be quite plentiful. The following are 

 among its recorded localities : Carlisle ; Lake District ; 

 West Yorkshire ; Eoche Abbey, Yorkshire ; Peter- 

 borough ; Stowmarket ; Pembury ; Barnwell Wold, 

 Northants ; Oxford ; Blandford ; Worcester ; Glouces- 

 tershire ; Bedfordshire ; Epping ; Coombe Wood ; Darenth 

 Wood ; Boxhill ; Dorking ; Brighton \ Lewes ; Worth- 

 ing ; Lyndhurst ; Teignmouth. 



The males of all the members of the family to which 

 this butterfly belongs, and of which this is the sole 

 European representative the ERYCINID^B have only 

 four legs adapted for walking, whilst the females have 

 six. 



THE BEOWST HAIE-STEEAK 

 (Theda Betulce.) (Plate XII. fig. 1, Male ; 1 a, Female.) 



THE genus to which this butterfly belongs, contains five 

 British species, elegant and interesting insects, though 

 not gaily tinted. They are most obviously distinguished 

 from other small butterflies by the tail-like projection on 

 the lower edge of their hind wings (though one of their 



