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Papilio is most easily taken in May and June, when the P. lucina, or Duke 

 of Burgundy Fritillary, is out ; but the term of its existance seems to be 

 longer, as some specimens have been caught, in good condition, a full fort- 

 night after the Lucina has disappeared. It is to be found from 7 to 9 o'clock 

 in the morning ; very often playing in pairs just after sunrise, or at least as 

 soon as the morning fog has evaporated. Its flight is extremely short, very 

 near the ground. It delights to settle on the blades of very long grasses or 

 Carices, and is far from being a timid insect. " Mr. Abbott wishes to name 

 it the Duke of York Fritillary. With its caterpillar and chrysalis he is 

 unacquainted." 



The first specimens were taken by Dr. Abbott on May 8th, 1798. 



Ha worth, in his "Lepidoptera Britannica," 1803, writes, " Habitat imago 

 sylvaticis May : rarissima, sed prope Bedfordium frequentius capta et ad me 

 missa amico meo C. Abbott, D.D." 



In the end of June, 1802, Dr. Abbott took faded specimens in White 

 Wood, Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire. It was next taken in great plenty in the 

 Hanglands, Milton, near Peterboro, on May 1st, 1823, by Mr. Henderson, 

 Lord Milton's gardener; and in the same place on June 6th, 1826, by 

 J. C. Dale. 



Stephens, in his "Illustrations of British Entomology/' 1828, writes, 

 " Generally reputed a scarce, but merely a very local species ; it occurs in 

 great plenty in several parts of Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire at the 

 end of May. Between Woodstock and Enstone, Oxon Rev. W. T. Bree. 

 Near Dartmoor, Devon Miss Jermyn." 



In the "Entomologist " for 1841, Mr. Doubleday records it as being in 

 profusion in Monk's Wood and in a wood near Oundle, Northamptonshire. 



In the " Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer," for 1857, Mr. Harvey 

 writes, " I have great pleasure in announcing that this year I have taken this 

 rare insect at Netley Abbey, near Southampton : and Mr. Sturgess writes, 

 " I have much pleasure in stating that this very local insect has been taken 

 very freely in the neighbourhood of Kettering duriug the past month." 



In the "Entomologist," Vol. XV., for 1882, the Eev. W. Fowler writes, 

 " In a wood about seven or eight miles from Lincoln, while hunting for 

 Coleoptera on June 2nd, I saw Hesperia Paniscus, evidently not uncommon 

 in one locality. On two subsequent occasions I visited the wood, but each 

 time a thunder storm, followed by heavy rain, came on just as we reached it, 

 and stopped our operations ; we, however, took one specimen each time, 

 showing that it was still out, and I have no doubt that the insect was fairly 

 plentiful." 



