INSECTS 
and the adjoining district from the Rev. O. W. Harries and Dr. W. G. 
Nash, and of these and also the smaller groups from Mr. J. Sharpin. 
Mr. W. Bond-Smith has furnished a useful list of the larger species 
found at Potton, and Mr. Herbert Studman a list of a few species 
at Woburn. 
At Luton excellent work was done by Mr. J. A. Saunders, 
now unhappily deceased, and to documents left by him, and obligingly 
lent by his father Mr. Jas. Saunders, A.S.S., to Mr. A. E. Gibbs, I am 
indebted for the extensive list of species both of Macro- and Micro- 
Lepidoptera supplied for that district. 
RHOPALOCERA 
Aporia crategi, Linn.(Black-veined White But- 
terfly) Reported by Mr. H. Studman 
to have formerly occurred near Woburn 
Pieris brassice, Linn., rape, Linn., napi, 
Linn. (White Butterflies) © Abundant 
everywhere 
Anthocharis cardamines, Linn. (Orange-tip) 
Generally distributed 
Colias hyale, Linn. (Pale Clouded Yellow) 
Bedford, Woburn ; plentiful in 1900 
and 1901 
— edusa, Linn. (Clouded Yellow) Bedford, 
Potton ; abundant in the year 1900 
Gonepteryx rhamni, Linn. (Brimstone But- 
terfly) Bedford, Luton, Potton; fre- 
quent in clover fields 
Chrysophanus phlaas, Linn. (Small Copper) 
Generally distributed 
Polyommatus arion, Linn. (Large Blue) 
Haworth in 1803 says: ‘Taken in 
Bedfordshire and sent to me by my 
friend Dr. Abbot’; Professor West- 
wood (1849) adds that it was taken in 
the ‘Mouse’s pasture’ near Bedford, 
and that Mr. J. C. Dale took it there 
again in 1819; further that it was 
taken on commons near Bromham 
— agestis, Hb., medon, Esp. (Brown Argus) 
Bedford, on hillsides 
— alexis, Hb., icarus, Rott. (Common Blue) 
Generally common 
-— adonis, Hb., bellargus, Rott. (Clifden Blue) 
On chalk hillsides near Bedford 
-— corydon, Scop. (Chalk-hill Blue) On 
chalk hillsides near Bedford 
— alsus, Schiff. (Bedford Blue) Hills and 
railway banks around Bedford and 
Luton 
— argiolus, Linn. (Holly Blue) Bedford 
Thecla quercts, Linn. (Purple Hairstreak) 
Generally about oaks in woods 
— betule, Linn. (Brown Hairstreak) Re- 
ported near Woburn by Mr. H. Stud- 
man 
— pruni, Haw. (Black Hairstreak) 
near Bedford by Dr. Nash 
Found 
Thecla w-album, Knoch. (White Letter 
Hairstreak) Bedford and Woburn about 
wych elm 
Apatura iris, Linn. Recorded at Clapham 
Park Woods by Professor Westwood 
(1849) on the authority of the Rev. 
W. T. Bree 
Vanessa polychloros, Linn. (Large Tortoise- 
shell) This fine butterfly seems to be 
well distributed over the county 
— urtice, Linn. (Small Tortoiseshell) Abun- 
dant everywhere 
— io, Linn. (Peacock Butterfly) All 
— atalanta, Linn, (Red Admiral) } generally 
— cardui, Linn. (Painted Lady) } distributed 
Argynnis paphia, Linn.  (Silver-washed 
Fritillary) Generally distributed in 
woods 
— adippe, Linn. (High Brown Fritillary) 
Recorded near Bedford by Dr. Nash, 
and near Woburn by Mr. McKay 
— euphrosyne, Linn. (Large Pearl-border) 
Bedford district, in woods 
— selene, Schiff. (Small Pearl-border) Com- 
mon in woods about Woburn 
Melitza athalia, Esp. (Heath Fritillary) Re- 
corded in Aspley Woods, fifty years ago, 
by Westwood 
— artemis, Hb. (Greasy Fritillary) 
Park Woods ; Prof. Westwood 
Melanargia galathea, Linn. (Marbled White) 
On chalk hills near Bedford 
Pararge egeria, Linn. (Speckled Wood But- 
terfly) Bedford, in lanes and wood 
borders 
— megzra, Linn. Generally distributed 
Epinephile janira, Linn. (Meadow Brown) 
Generally common 
Clapham 
— tithonus, Linn. (Gatekeeper) Generally 
common 
— hyperanthus, Linn. (Ringlet) Plentiful 
in woods 
Coenonympha pamphilus, Linn. Common in 
every grass field 
Syrichthus malvae, Linn., alveolus, 
Bedford, Luton, Potton 
Hb. 
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