INSECTS 





1888, N. V. Sidgwick); Wolford 

 Woods (Austen) ; Whitchurcb (fre- 

 quent in garden, J. H. Bloom) ; 

 Athentone (C. Baker) ; Brandon 

 Woods (N. W. Hudson, Rugby list, 

 1888) ; near Warwick^, dim recol- 

 lection, P. P. Baly) ; Knowle (W. G. 

 Blatch) ; Haselor near Alcester (Blatch 

 Cat.) ; and Morris gives Allesley 



[Thecla pruni, L., was recorded in Blatch 

 Hand, in error] 



Callophrys rubi, L. Very local ; common 

 in Sutton Park, which is its best 

 known haunt ; also recorded from 

 Edgebill (P. P. Baly) ; Wolford 

 (W. C. E. Wheeler) ; Allesley (once 

 only, W. Bree) 



Zephyrus quercus, L. Fairly common. 

 Oakley Wood (common most years, 

 P. P. Baly) ; Atherstone (C. Baker) ; 

 Rugby = Brandon Woods, etc. (Rugby 

 lists) ; Wolford Woods (Austen, W. 

 C. E. Wheeler) ; Alveston near 

 Wbitchurch (L. C. Keighley-Peach) ; 

 Coombe Wood (G. B. Longstaff, 

 EMM. 1866, p. 138); Tilt Hill 

 Woods (very abundant some years, 

 W. Bree) ; Corky Woods (occasion- 

 ally, W. Bree); Knowle (W. G. 

 Blatch Hand.) 



[ betulae, L. The only record of the 

 capture of this species in the county 

 is one by W. C. E. Wheeler, who 

 says his father took it at Wolford. 

 Mr. C. G. Barrett thinks it is not a 

 likely Warwickshire insect, so that 

 confirmation is desirable] 



Chrysophanus Phlaeas, L. Common every- 

 where 



Lycaena Argus, L. (/Egon, Schiff). Very 

 rare, and I have no satisfactory mo- 

 dern records. Newman gives it as 

 occurring at Coleshill Park and neigh- 

 bourhood and Sutton Park on the 

 authority of F. Enock, and Morris 

 also quotes Coleshill Heath. I fear 

 however that it is gone from both 

 these localities many years ago. It 

 is also recorded from Rugby by New- 

 man on the authority of G. B. 

 Longstaff and by E. Solly (Rugby 

 list, 1881) 



Astrarche, Bgstr. Not common. Wol- 



ford (W. C. E. Wheeler); Rugby 

 (Rugby lists) ; and Morris says near 

 Birmingham. I have not seen any 

 county specimens 



Icarus, Rott. (Alexis, Hub.) Common 



everywhere 



Coridon, Poda. This and Bellargus, 



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Rott., cannot be regarded as 

 Warwickshire insects, and as there 

 is no chalk in the county they are 

 scarcely to be expected. W. C. E. 

 Wheeler however tells me that the 

 former occurs within a few miles of 

 Wolford. In this extreme south- 

 west corner of Warwickshire how- 

 ever several insects have been found 

 by him which are not characteristic 

 of the county, and it may be partly 

 owing to the fact that along the 

 southern border Liassic rocks crop 

 up, whereas most of the county con- 

 sists of Triassic sandstones, etc. A 

 single specimen of Coridon also is 

 said to have been taken years ago at 

 Knowle, as recorded in Morris, New- 

 man and F. Enock's list. It was 

 probably a straggler, but it may 

 have been a survivor of a small 

 colony, as there is a small outcrop 

 of lias near, and the species seems 

 sometimes associated with that forma- 

 tion as well as with chalk 



Lycaena minimus, Fuessl. (Alsus, F.) Wol- 

 ford (W. C. E. Wheeler, Austen, 

 J. H. Bloom) ; Stockton (in fairly large 

 numbers, June 22, 1901, on banks 

 of a chalk pit where Anthyllis grows, 

 D. T. Garrett, Entom. 1901, p. 229 ; 

 also W. S. Edmonds, Rugby lists) 



semiargus, Rott. (Acis, Schiff.) Used 

 to occur many years ago near 

 Birmingham, but it is long since one 

 was taken, and I do not know any 

 one who possesses a local specimen. 

 Its occurrence is referred to by 

 Stainton, quoting Allis, who says 

 that it had not been taken for seve- 

 ral years then ; by Morris, quoting 

 W. Bree, who took one specimen in 

 Coleshill Park ; by W. G. Blatch in 

 Brit. Assoc. Hand. ; and by New- 

 man, quoting F. Enock, who gives 

 Shirley as the locality 



Cyaniris Argiolus, L. Not uncommon. 

 Occurs freely, and in some years in 

 great abundance in Sutton Park, 

 where are many very fine old hollies. 

 So far as I know only the first brood 

 ever appears there. It has also been 

 recorded from Knowle (W. G. 

 Blatch) ; Alleslty (W. Bree and 

 Morris) ; Warwick (one in High 

 Street, P. P. Baly) ; Rugby, Charley 

 Wood, etc. (Rugby lists) ; Yardley 

 Wood, Shirley and Coleshill (A. D. 

 Imms, Entom. 1897, p. 319) ; Ather- 

 stone (C. Baker); Wolford (both 



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