102 BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



27th, 1890, at Shoeburyness ; July 14th-17th, 1891, at Benfleet 

 (Whittle) ; August 4th, 1890, at Burwell Fen (Farren) ; July 10th- 

 16th, 1892, at Benfleet (Whittle); July 16th, 1892, on the sea- 

 wall at Leigh (James) ; July 24th-26th, 1892, in the Dovercourt 

 district (Mathew) ; July lOth-August 4th, 1894, at Benfleet (Whittle) ; 

 July 19th, 1894, at Benfleet (James) ; July 6th, 1895, at Southend; 

 July 7th, 1895, at Leigh ; July 8th, 1895, between Barking and Shoe- 

 bury; July 10th, 1895, at Canvey ; June 28th and July 3rd, 1896, 

 unusually common, at Canvey ; July 1st, 1896, bred from larva taken at 

 Canvey, on June 9th (Whittle) ; July 13th, 1896, abundant on Clifie 

 Marshes, under Cliff e Fort (Bower) ; imagines abundant, end of June, 

 1897, at Canvey; July 5th and 7th, 1897, at Westcliff (Whittle); July 

 13th, 1897, in boundless profusion at Hadleigh Castle (James) ; very 

 plentiful on the sea-wall east of Gravesend, July 17th, 1897 (Battley) ; 

 July 14th, 1898, at Shoebury ; July 23rd, 1898, at Great Wakering ; 

 July 27th-30th, 1898, near Hadleigh ; August 2nd, 1898, at Pitsea 

 (Whittle) ; July 25th, 1898, near Bedford (Hatton) ; common, August 

 1st, 1898, at Leigh (Hall) ; August, 1898, at Mucking (Burrows) ; 

 June 30th, 1899, at Shoeburyness ; July 12th, 1899, at Eastwood ; 

 July 14th-21st, 1899, at Benfleet (Whittle); first seen in 1899 at 

 Woodham Mortimer on July 14th (Kaynor) ; first week of August, 1899, 

 common, at Burwell Fen (Butterfield) ; July 3rd-9th, 1900, at Ben- 

 fleet ; one emerged July 19th, 1900, from pupa found at Benfleet 

 (Whittle) ; July 25th, 1900, at Tilbury (Image) ; July 6th, 1901, at 

 Westcliff (Whittle) : July 18th, 1902, at Tilbury (Image) ; July 30th, 

 1902, at Thundersley ; August 5th, 1902, at Coombe Wood, Essex ; 

 July 21st-24th, 1903, at Benfleet (Whittle) ; first seen at Hazeleigh on 

 July 17th, 1903; July 16th, 1904, at Danbury ; July 11th, 1905, at 

 Hazeleigh (Kaynor); July 15th, 1904. at North Fambridge; July 

 I8th-23rd, 1904, at North Shoebury; July 19th-26th, 1904, at Childer- 

 ditch (Whittle); July 27th-28th, 1905, at Ashton Wold, Oundle ; 

 August 9th, 1905, at Burwell Fen (Rothschild). 



Habitat. — The habitats of A.lineola&ve extremely varied. In Britain, 

 almost confined to the grassy slopes of the sea-wall and a short distance 

 inland therefrom in our southeastern counties, in addition to a few 

 boggy inland places, we find it, on the continent, equally abundant in 

 the long grass by hedgesides, in clover and lucerne fields, on flowery 

 slopes in the alpine valleys, on the slopes of high alpine paths, on 

 grassy uplands and even on high flowery pastures from 5000 ft. to 

 7000 ft. elevation, e.g., in the Yal Veni, at Simplon, Le Lautaret, 

 Abries, etc. On the flowery slopes between Bourg St. Maurice and 

 Bonneval-Bains, it haunted the same ground as A. flava (thaumas) 

 and T. acteon, whilst at the roadway puddles in this district it 

 was particularly abundant, so also it was at the water-runnels 

 crossing the roads at Abries in 1900, where it consorted with the 

 blues. In long grass, at the end of July, 1899, by the side of 

 the meadows at the village of Simplon, it was extremely abundant, 

 and at Megeve, in long grass by the sale of a footpath crossing the 

 upland meadows, it was in millions, whilst by the roadside 1 between 

 Megeve and Combloux it was in great numbers on almost every thistle 

 flower; but it also loves the lowlands, and Leech found it abundant in 

 a limestone quarry at Tancarville, some 200 or 300 yards from the Seine, 

 in Britain it is recorded as abundant on the saltinarshes at Leigh, 



