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Lepidoptera of the Hawick District. By William Grant 

 GUTHKIE, Hawick. 



RHOPALOOEEA. 



PiERis BRASSIC^. Abundant. On the 2nd May 1896 I 

 found a pupa of this attached to the bole of a tree, 

 in the middle of the plantation on Whitacres Hill, 850 

 feet above sea-level ; the imago emerged on the 24th 

 of May. 



RAP^. Abundant. Earliest recorded normal occur- 

 rence 18th April. 



NAri. Common. 



EucHLOE CARDAMiNES. Not uucommou ; Burnfoot, near Horns- 

 hole, etc. 



CoLiAS EDUSA. Occurred in 1877 at Sunnyhill, Hawick 

 Cemetery, etc. 



Argynnis paphia. Not common ; Miuto Rocks, etc. 



MELiT.a;A AURiNiA. Very local. Some years ago over one 

 hundred larvae were collected in a small hollow on 

 Hassendean Common. 



Vanessa urtic^. Abundant. 



10. Once common at Greenbraeheads. I have seen 



only two within the last thirty years. 



ATALANTA. Commou uiost ycars. 



CARDUi. Abundant some years. 



Erebia wEThiops (medea.) Common ; Muirfield, Lyunhope, 

 etc. 



Pakarge MEGiERA. Very local; Hawick Muir. 



Satyrtjs semele. Common ; Kaimend and Allan Water. 



Epinephele lANiRA (jANiRA.) Common. 



hyperanthus. Common ; very variable as to 



number and distinctness of rings and spots. 



Ccenonympha pamphilus. Our most abundant butterfly. 



PoLYOMMATUs PHLCEAS. Not common ; Haughhead and Allan- 

 haugh. 



Lyc^ena astrarche (medon) var. Artaxerxes. Not so com- 

 mon as formerly. 



