130 BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



there is no doubt that, in the wet and cold year following, the July and 

 August examples taken in the same place were of the first and, for 

 that year, only brood. Some British localities appear never to produce 

 any second-brood examples, e.g., Watkins states that such are never 

 seen on the Cotteswolds, whilst in other places the species is only noted 

 in the spring brood, e.g., in May in the Cowran Hills near Carlisle 

 (Armstrong); locally common in May and June in Roxburghshire 

 (Renton); early June at Witherslack (Forsythe); abounds, at the end 

 of June, at Black Head, Clare (Lawless), etc. The following dates of 

 the capture of specimens taken in the British Isles should prove 

 instructive: — May 30th, 1856, near Bristol (Naish); June 1st, 7th, 



1856, on the hills near Dover (Harding); June 28th, 1856, at Llan- 

 ferris (Gregson); June 1st, 7th, 1857, at Leckhampton and Birdlip 

 (Merrin); June 2nd, 1857, at Amesbury (Rogers); June 2nd-3rd, 1857, 

 on the Hilly Field, Box Hill, June 5th, 1857, near Dorking (Trimen); 

 June 2nd, 1857, and preceding days, at Weston-super-Mare (Head); 

 July 13th-27th, 1857, at Wotton-under-Edge (Perkins); August 6th, 



1857, in Flem Dyke at Fulbourn,near Cambridge (Farren); June 10th, 



1858, in Scotland (White); June 11th, 1858, in Bramham Park (Oates); 

 June 14th, 1858, near Dover (Harding); June 15th-22nd, 1858, at 

 Folkestone (Drury); July 10th-12th, 1858, at Ram Heugh, near Stone- 

 haven (Thomson); May 27th- June 5th, 1859, at Oban (E.W.I. , vi., 

 p. 182); May 31st, 1859, at Kirriemuir, very common (F. B. White); 

 June Ist-lOth, 1859, near Worcester (Edmunds); June 8th, 1859, near 

 Croydon (Rogers); June 13th, 1859, near Deal (Harding); June 13th- 

 20th, 1859, at the Bridge of Allan (Wingate); June, 1860, at Galway 

 (Barrett); July 3rd, 1860, in Trench Woods (Edwards); July 30th, 

 1860, near Carisbrooke Castle (Adams); June 9th-16th, 1861, at Dursley 

 (Merrin); June 22nd, 1861, at Hollingbury Hill (Jones); August 24th- 

 September 1st, 1861, at Torquay (Stewart); June 27th, 1866, abundant 

 near Cambridge (Gedge); September 1st, 1866, at Niton, Isle of Wight 

 (Cruttwell); June 15th, 1867, in Scotland (White); June 22nd, 1867, 

 near Lewes (Jones); May 27th, 1868, at Cirencester (Harman); July 

 24th, 1868, on the Cotteswolds (Watkins); June 5th-26th, 1869, 

 at Brockenhurst (Capper) ; June 8th, 1869, at Cirencester, 

 abundant (Harman) : May 27th, 1870, on the Cotteswolds 

 (Watkins); June 5th-15th, 1873, at Hailing (Tutt); June 2nd, 

 1876, at Caterham (West); June 15th, 1876, at Abbotts 

 Wood (Dale); July 4th, 1876, near Powick (Fletcher); June 29th, 

 1878, on Stinchcombe Hill (Spiller); May 29th, 1880, at Cuxton 

 (Bower); June 2nd, 1880, at Killybegs, Co. Donegal ; June 14th-20th, 

 1880, in Merlin Park (.1. J. Walker); August 4th, l "l881, Isle of Purbeck 

 (Bankes); May, 1882, at Sligo (Russ); j\ine 20th-30th, 1882, at East- 

 bourne (Wright); July 5th-26th, 1882, at Folkestone (Salwey); July 

 11th, 1882, near Clevedon (Jeffreys); July 6th-20th, 1883, at Wither- 

 slack (Rose); July 7th, 1883, in tbe Dover district (Coverdale); May 

 80th-June 1st,, 1884, at Witherslack (Hodgkinson); June 23rd, 1884, 

 in the Isle of Purbeck (Bankes); June 12th, 1885, near Basingstoke 

 (Hamm); June 28rd, 1885, common on the cliffs at Holywell, near 

 Eastbourne (Hawes); June 15th, 18S6, near Basingstoke (Hamm); 

 June 19th, 1886, at Horsley (Helps); .luue 26th, 1886, in the Isle of 

 Purbeck (Bankes); July 21st, 1N86. out of condition at Shoreham 

 (Bower); June 6th, L8d7, in the Isle of Portland (Bankes); June 15th, 



