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very local bat abundant (Samouelle), Hazlebury, Powerstock, Parley Copse [last 

 taken in 1841] (Dale, Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxviii., p. 78). [Essex: Epping 

 Forest, one (Young England, 1860) (most probably an error see Huckett, 

 Zool., xxi., 8605); Saffron Walden, formerly (teste Joseph Clark, V.C.H.).] 

 Glamorgan: Merthyr (Parry, E.W.I. , vi., p. 28), Penarth near Cardiff (Langley, 

 Ent., viii., p. 161; Williams, op. cit., p. 271: Heath, Ent., x., p. 19), 

 Croesgid, near Llantrissant, rare (Evan John, Newman's Brit. Butts., p. 133) 

 (see also Hudd, Ent. Mo. Mag., viii., 113, and Prest, Ent., xi., p. 104. 

 Gloucester : two, Lower Guiting (Greene, Zool., x., 3494 ; Sta. Man., i., 

 p. 59 ; Newman's Brit. Butts., p. 133), Stapleford (Lee, Zool., 1843, p. 257), Stinch- 

 combe and Break Heart Hill, near Wootton-under-Edge (Perkins, Newman's Brit. 

 Butts., p. 133), near Dursley (John, Newman's Brit. Butts., p. 133) see also Hudd's 

 List of Lepidoptera Bristol District, p. 1(51). Hants : Brockenhurst (Stephens, 

 Illus., L, p. 86), near Ringwood (Vine teste Dale, Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxviii., p. 78). 

 Hereford : Olden Barn, 4 miles from Leominster (Newman, Zool., 1862, preface ; 

 Brit. Butts., p. 133). Kent: chalky soils (Stephens) [Cuxton district, ? 1873 

 (Farrow -teste Tutt, Brit. Butts., p. 166)] . Leicester: Hinckley (Bree, Loudon's 

 Mag., vi., p. 96). Lincoln: Epworth, near Bawtry (Hudson, E.W.I. , viii., 139; 

 Zool., xxii., p. 8985), Isle of Axholm, once (Allis, Newman's Brit. Butts., p. 133). 

 Monmouth : St. Julian's, one (Lock, Newman's Brit. Butts., p. 133), Pontnewydd 

 (Conway, Loudon's Mag., vi., p. 96). Norfolk (Burrell teste Haworth) : chalky 

 districts (Stephens). Northampton: formerly — Sywell Wood (Hull and Tomalin 

 teste Goss, Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxvii., p. 61). Pembroke: Tenby (Edwards, Ent., 

 xvi., p. 210). Somerset: formerly near Bath (Lewin), one on 

 Leigh Down, near Bristol, 1867, in the Grigg coll. (Hudd's List of Lepi- 

 doptera of Bristol district, p. 162), Frome, Norton St. Philip, near Backland 

 Dinham* (Parsons teste Mathew, in litt.). Suffolk: Foxhall Heath, one (Garrett 

 teste Bloomfield, Lep. Suffolk, p. 7); Woodbridge district^ (Rowland-Brown, 

 Ent. Rec, xi., p. 278). Surrey: Windlesham Heath f (Stephens), [near Mickleham 

 (Beattie) (no doubt an error) J,] reported by Brewer as being taken many years ago 

 on Reigate Hill and near Headley (V.C.H.). Sussex : Lewes district (Stainton, 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., v., p. 234); Croamhurst (Olliff , Ent., xiii., p. 43), formerly 

 two taken near Chailey in the collection of the late Mr. Unwin, of Lewes (Jenner, 

 Proc. Eastb. Nat. Hist. Soc, 1885-6), [another reported as captured in July, 1881, 

 in the White Field, Abbott's Wood (Dynes, Ent., xv., p. 135)]. Warwick: 

 Coleshill Park, Coventry, probably near Birmingham (Bree, Loudon's Mag., vi., 

 p. 96); [Wolvey** (teste Flint, Ent., xxxv., 239, captured 1896, not recognised 



* In a letter from my brother, the Rev. Murray A. Mathew, Vicar 

 of Buckland Dinham, near Frome, dated September 14th, 1895, he 

 informed me that he had just seen three examples of Lycaena acis that had been 

 taken some years ago near Frome, by a Dr. Parsons, and were then in the 

 possession of Dr. Frederick Parsons, his son. Dr. F. Parsons also told my brother 

 that he found L. acis common a few years ago in a field at Norton St. Philip, a 

 village about 5 miles from Buckland Dinham, in the direction of Bath. In order 

 to make sure that there was no mistake in the identification of the species, I wrote 

 to my brother to ask if Dr. F. Parsons would kindly send the butterflies to me for 

 my inspection, and in the course of a few days I received them — three undoubted 

 L. acis, two males and one female, in wretched condition, and badly set on large 

 common white pins (G. F. Mathew, in litt.). 



*i\ This butterfly must have been fairly common in Suffolk in the first half 

 of the nineteenth century. In an old collection made in the "thirties" or 

 " forties " by Dr. Jones, of Woodbridge, I found a number of C. semiargus taken 

 in the county, and probably at this locality. They were all much faded, having 

 been kept in an open case, but there can be no doubt as to their being genuine 

 Suffolk examples (Rowland-Brown, in litt.). 



f Dale notes (Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxviii., p. 78) the example here recorded, as 

 "captured July 16th, 1878, by Dr. Abbott." It should no doubt be "July 16th, 1818." 



J A $ and a ? Lycaena acis, exhibited at the meeting of the City of Lond. 

 Ent. Soc, November 7th, 1908, were stated by Mr. Beattie to have been captured 

 either by himself or his daughter in the neighbourhood of Mickleham, Surrey, 

 during 1904 or 1905 (Ent., xxxix., p. 24). No doubt, among so much uncertainty 

 as to the captor and the year of capture, some error had arisen as to the origin of 

 these examples. 



** A fine specimen exhibited by Mr. Flint at the Birmingham Ent. Soc, 

 September 15th, 1902, and stated to have been taken in 1896 at Wolvey, and 

 not at first recognised (Ent., xxxv., p. 329). 



