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capture of this species that we can trace in our British literature : the 

 last week in August, 1793, two or three specimens flying in a pasture 

 field near Bath (Lewin); June 28th, 1804, one 2 near Coleshill Park 

 (Bree, Loudon's Mag., vi., p. 190); June 22nd and July 2nd, 1808, at 

 Glanvilles Wootton (J. C. Dale); July 24th, 1811, one only at Glan- 

 villes Wootton (J. C. Dale) (Dale, Ent, Mo. Mag., xxxviii., p. 78) ; 

 July 15th, 1812, one 2 near Hinckley (Bree, Loudon s Mag., vi., p. 

 190); June 11th, 1813, common at Glanvilles Wootton (J. C. Dale); 

 June 10th, 1815, common, one taken as late as August 1st, at Glan- 

 villes Wootton (J. C. Dale); June 27th, 1816, at Powerstock (J. C. 

 Dale) (Dale, Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxviii., p. 78); July 16th, 1819, at 

 Gamlingay (Dale, Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxviii., p. 77); July 16th, 18181, 

 at Windlesham Heath (Abbott); July 16th, 1819, common at 

 Glanvilles Wootton (J. C. Dale); June 13th, 1825, twenty taken at 

 Glanvilles Wootton (J. C. Dale) (Dale, Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxviii., p. 78); 

 June 20th, 1832, four 2 s and one $ in meadows near Leominster 

 (Newman, Brit. Butts., p. 133); May 28th, 1833, at Parley Copse (Vine 

 teste Dale, Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxviii., p. 78); about end of June, 1833, 

 near Pontnewydd, in Monmouthshire (Loudon's Mag., vi., p. 96); July 

 1st, 1833, at Madingley Wood (Stephens, Ent. Mag., i., p. 528); 

 August 5th, 1834, on Parley Heath, on the borders of Hants and 

 Dorset, in plenty (J. C. Dale, Loudon's Mag., vii., p. 499); 1835-7, in 

 plenty in South Wales (near Merthyr) (Parry, E. W.I., vi., p. 28); June 

 19th, 1841, at Glanvilles Wootton, one on a chalk-hill called Dungeon, 

 the other in a field called Millett's Long Ground ; these were the last 

 specimens seen in Dorset (J. C. Dale) (Dale, Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxviii., 

 p. 78); June, 1842, 2 at Stapleford, in a chalk-pit (Lee, Zool., 1843, 

 p. 257); end of June, 1850, two specimens at Lower Guiting (Greene, 

 Zool., x., p. 3494); May 2nd, 1854, at? (Atkinson); one, early August, 

 1857, at Papworth Everard (Beadan, E.W.I., iv., p. 141); one, June 

 20tb*, 1858, at Papworth Everard (Beadan, E.W.L, iv., p. 141); July 

 10th, 1859, at Epworth, July 25th, 1860, a $ in a field where the one 

 was taken in 1859, at Epworth (Hudson, E.W.L, viii., p. 139 ; Zool., 

 xxii., p. 8985); June 24th, 1861, one specimen, Foxhall Heath (Garrett, 

 Bloom field's Lep. Suffolk, p. 7); a single specimen near Dursley, in 

 June, 1865 (John, Newman's Brit. Butts., p. 133); six specimens in 

 mid-June, 1871, near Llantrissant, in South Wales (Hudd, Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., viii., p. 113); June 4th, 1875, a $ at Penarth, near Cardiff (the 

 previous year eight $ s and two 2 s taken in the same place) (Langley, 

 Entom., viii., p. 161); [August, 1880, at Croamhurst (Olliff, Ent., xiii., 

 p. 43); July, 1881 (not recorded till 1883), in the White Field, Abbott's 

 Wood (Dynes, Ent., xv., p. 135)] . 



Habits. — This species is most interesting in its habits, somewhat 

 difficult to observe, however, because of its comparative shyness and 

 its preference for wild, uncultivated land, although sometimes it may 

 be found on the borders of cultivated land, or even on the outskirts of 

 the fields themselves. It loves to stand with its wings drawn up, or 

 only partially expanded, although, in the full sun, it often drops them 

 completely. When walking it moves a leg on either side alternately, 



\ This is written July 16th, 1878, in Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxviii. s p. 78. 

 * This is made July 20th, in Newman's Brit. Butts., p. 133. 



