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May 19th, 1902, at Reading (Butler) ; May 24th, 1902, at Hazeleigh 

 (Raynor); May 27th, 1902, at Breidden Hill (Tetley) ; May 24th-June 

 18th, 1902, at Dorking (Oldaker); June 7th and 11th, 1902, in Epping 

 Forest(J. E.Gardner); June 15th, 1902,atHailsham(Browne); June 18th- 

 July 1st, 1902, in the New Forest (Lofthouse) ; June 22nd and 26th, 

 and August 2nd, 1902, at Thundersley (Whittle) ; June 27th, 1902, on 

 Stanmore Common (Barraud); JuneSth, 1902, in West Sussex(J.F.Bird); 

 as late as June 21st, 1902, in poor condition, at Oxhey Lane (Rowland- 

 Brown); June 5th, 10th, and July 16th, 1902, at Chattenden (Burrows); 

 May, 1903, at Brockenhurst, June 6th, 1903, on Stanmore Common 

 (Barraud) ; May 19th, 1903, at Hazeleigh (Raynor) ; May 28th-June 

 11th, 1903, in the Isle of Purbeck (Bankes) ; June 10th-12th, 1903, at 

 Taunton (Tetley) ; May 29th, 1903, in the New Forest (J.E. Gardner) ; 

 May 13th, 1903, at Reading (Butler) ; May 21st, 1903, at Oxhey Lane 

 (Rowland-Brown) ; June 23rd, 1903, at Chattenden (Burrows) ; April 

 25th-May 25th, 1904, in the Isle of Purbeck, June 17th, 1904, at 

 Blandford (Bankes) ; May 25th, 1904, at Hazeleigh (Raynor) ; May, 



1904, at Brockenhurst (Barraud) ; June 5th-13th, 1904, at Thorndon 

 (Whittle) ; June 9th, 1904, at Brentwood (Burrows) ; May 23rd- June 

 3rd, 1904, at Taunton (Tetley); May 18th, 1904, at Dorking (Oldaker); 

 June 8th, 1904, at Brentwood (J. E. Gardner); May 7th, 1904, at Read- 

 ing (Butler); May 9th, 1905, at Hazeleigh (Raynor) ; not so scarce as 

 in 1901, first seen May 20th, 1905, at Tintern and Llandogo, one speci- 

 men, taken on May, 23rd very near ab.fa?Y*.s(J. F. Bird); June 13th, 1905, 

 in the Isle of Purbeck (Bankes); May 22nd, 1905, at Loughton (Image) ; 

 May 7th, 1905, at Reading (Butler) ; occasionally between Princes 

 Risborough and Wendover, April to May, and as late as June 3rd, 1905 

 (Rowland-Brown); May 27th, 1905, in Epping Forest (J. E. Gardner); 

 June 15th, 1905, at Chattenden (Burrows); May 21st, 25th, and June, 



1905, at Carmarthen (Barker) ; June 21st, 1905, latest date noted at 

 Ashford (Wood) ; July 16th, 1905, at Shepton Mallet (Bogue) ; April 

 25th, 1906, first example of the year seen at Tintern, at rest on 

 a blossom of wild hyacinth (J. F. Bird). 



Habits. -The butterfly is very active, flying swiftly from one spot 

 to another in the sunshine, resting on leaves, and more often on 

 flowers, and frequently on bare patches on the ground. When at rest 

 in the sunshine it lowers its wings, sidling round so that the sun falls 

 directly on its almost fully expanded wings. When, however, the weather 

 is dull, or it has settled for the night, it draws its wings over its back, 

 lowers the forewings until all but the tips are hidden by the hindwings, 

 and, folding them closely to its abdomen, the tints of its underside 

 hide it very effectively. It often sleeps on grass-stems at Marlow 

 (Clarke). Gillmer says : "According to my experience, this butterfly is a 

 very fugitive creature, and very hard to follow with the eye when in 

 flight. In the localities of the Mosigkauer Haide (Dessau) where it 

 flies, it rests readily on blossoms and dry portions of plants, seldom 

 on the ground, and opens the wings fully, or to two-thirds, in the 

 sunshine. The £ is commoner here than the ? , the former appears 

 also somewhat earlier than the latter." Schilde {Red. Entom. Zeitschr., 

 xxx., p. 55) remarks, however, that "the movements of H. malvae 

 in nature are by no means rambling, but it remains rather a long time 

 in one spot. If the sun shines, it spreads the wings widely, and when it 

 rests in this position on the end of a dry, last year's flower-head, or 



