﻿230 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



APATUKID.E. 



Apatura iris. — Mr. R. Stent has seven specimens, taken by himself at 

 Southwick ; it has been seen by Mr. Larcom and myself, and captured by 

 Mr. Leech, in Stakes Wood. In 1888 a specimen was taken by Mr. 

 Larcom in the Forest of Bere. 



Satykice. 



Melanargia galatea. — I have but one record of this species from 

 Gosport, and that only of a single specimen met with many years ago by 

 Messrs. Lacey, Woodman, and Stevens, and captured by the latter. It is 

 common at Fort Purbrook, Portsdown Hill ; it occurs in Stakes Wood and 

 Scratch-face Lane : I once met with it near Leigh Park. There are 

 probably other places in the district that I am not yet acquainted with. 



Pararge egeria. — Local, and rarely common. Stakes Wood ; Scratch- 

 face Lane, Stakes ; Havant Thicket ; and Southwick. P. megara. — 

 Common throughout the district. 



Satyrus semele. — Portsdown Hill, not common ; Hay ling Island and 

 Browndown, common. 



Epinephele ianira. — Common throughout the district. I have a very 

 curious male, taken on Portsdown Hill in 1888 ; the right upper wing 

 appears to have been tied round the centre in some way whilst developing. 

 E. tithonus. — Common in every hedgerow. E. hyperanthes. — Common in 

 the woods and lanes north of Portsdown Hill. The variety arete has been 

 taken at Crook-horn, by Mr. Larcom and myself. 



Ccenonympha pamphilus. — Common throughout the district. Specimens 

 having the ocelli on the under side of the lower wings well developed are 

 occasionally taken 



Lycjenidji. 



Thecla quercus. — In woods throughout the district. It occurs, or used 

 to occur, in a small copse at Great Salterns, Portsea Island. T. w-album. 

 — One at Southsea many years ago, Mr. H. Moncreaff. T. rubi. — Local. 

 Grange Wild Grounds, and Browndown, Gosport ; Stakes Wood. One at 

 Eastney, W. T. P. 



Polyommatus phlceas. — Generally distributed, and common in places. 

 A specimen of the var. schmidtii was taken some years ago by Mr. King, 

 at Highgrove ; it has since been destroyed by mites. 



Lyccsna agon. — Mr. Stent tells me this species used to be common on 

 Portsdown Hill; it is now very scarce. L. astrarche (agestis). — Portsdown 

 Hill, not common ; Scratch-face Lane, Stakes, one, W. T. P. L. icarus 

 (alexis). — Common. I have two males, with the wings partly white, from 

 Portsdown. Mr. Larcom has a specimen of what I take to be the var. 

 icarinus from the same locality ; examples showing some variation in the 

 markings of the hind wings are occasionally taken. L. corydon. — This 

 species used to occasionally occur on Southsea Common ; it is now only to 

 be found on Portsdown Hill, and there only in small numbers. In August, 

 1888, I counted fourteen females and three or four males; and on 

 August 4th, 1889, 1 saw eleven females, but no males ; this was the only 

 date last year that corydon was met with, so that I believe there is reason 

 to think this species will soon be entirely eliminated from our district. 

 Mr. McArthur told me of another place on the hill where it was said to 

 occur, but neither Mr. Larcom nor myself could find it there. L. argiolus. 

 — Sparingly. Scratch-face Lane, Stakes ; common, Grange Wild Grounds, 



