30 CATALOGFE OF BUTTERFLIES. 



Meldon Park, by the roadside, about half-way between Morpeth 

 and Longhurst. Castle Eden Dene, Seaton Carew. Wm. Back- 

 house, Esq." 



Twenty years ago it occurred freely at Black Hall Eocks, and 

 on the railway side between Hart and Hartlepool, and seemed 

 then to have a partiality for the Bramble as a resting place. It 

 has left both these places, but is still common in Hesleden Dene, 

 flying in all open parts of the wood. Dr. Lees found it on 

 Cotherstone banks, Mr. Pickard records it from Wolsingham, 

 Mr. Henderson from Jesmond, Mr. Maling found it on the 

 "Wansbeck near I^orth-Seaton, and at the north end of the moor 

 at ISTewbiggin-by-the-Sea. ''Castle Eden and other Denes," 

 Ornsby's Durham ; near Seaton Carew, W. Backhouse and John 

 Sang. . . 



31. Epinephele Hyperanthus (L.). Einglet. 



Hipparchia Hyperanthus. Staint. Man., vol. 1, p. 28. 

 Epinephele ,, l^ewm. Brit. Butt., p. 95. 



,, ,, Barrett's Lep. Brit. Is., vol. I., 



p. 251. 



„ ,, Meyrick, Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 339. 



Laeva. Buck., vol. 1, p. v., fig. 3 ; 0. Wils., pi. iv., fig. 5. 



"Wailes says, "very abundant in damp, grassy lanes and woods. 

 It appears in June and July, and varies much in the number 

 and magnitude of the ocelli, which do not rarely differ on the 

 opposite wings of the same specimen, and are sometimes entirely 

 obliterated and replaced by mere white spots." He gives no 

 localities, a proof that he considered it of general occurrence. 

 1^0 doubt that may have been so in 1858, when his catalogue 

 appeared, but it became exceedingly scarce very shortly after 

 that date, and has now almost, if not entirely, disappeared from 

 its old haunts. It is given in the Twizell List, in that in Ornsby's 

 Durham, and in Mr. Backhouse's notes. Other and subsequent 

 records are very few. I took it freely in Castle Eden Dene and 

 on the grassy railway bank near Hart Station prior to 1860. 

 One of the last specimens I found in Castle Eden Dene was a 



