Insects. 4651 



Polyommatus Alsus. I think I have taken it at Ashford, but am 

 not quite certain. 



„ Mgon. Local, but common. 



„ Alexis. Common. 



„ Adonis. I have not taken this nearer than the Isle 



of Wight. 



„ Corydon. Same as above. 



„ Agestis. Rare. 



Nemeobius Lucina. Widely dispersed and abundant in woods. 

 Limenitis Sibylla. Ashford, Forest of Bere and Stansted Forest. 

 In 1853 I took fifteen in a very few minutes in the Forest of Bere. 

 Argynnis Paphia, A. Aglaia, A. Adippe. In woods. 



„ Lathonia. 1 have had the great good fortune to capture 

 six specimens of this splendid insect : with two exceptions I think 

 I have taken all that I have seen. These exceptions were, one last 

 year in the Forest of Bere, which I observed sunning itself within a 

 yard of me, but over-anxiety and an intervening spray of blackthorn 

 defeated the first dash with my net, and, after a frantic chase of some 

 minutes, a hostile bramble reduced me to something below a level in 

 a deep ditch : the other specimen I saw the year before near the 

 same place, but I had no net with me, and failed to catch it with my 

 hat. The specimens I took were on the skirts of, or just inside, woods. 

 All occurred in the latter part of June. 



„ Euphrosyne and Selene. Very common in w T oods. 

 Melitsea Artemis. Marshy ground near Ashford. 



„ Athalia. One specimen at Ashford. 

 Vanessa Cardui. Sometimes very common. 

 „ Atalanta, Io, Urticae. Common. 



„ Polychloros. Widely distributed in woods, and not un- 

 common. 



„ C-album. Nursted Woods and Forest of Bere ; not un- 

 common. 



Apatura Iris. Not uncommon in woods at Ashford and Forest of 

 Bere, but of course very difficult to capture. I took a magnificent 

 female on the 26th of August, and the same year took another on the 

 14th of July. 



Arge Galathea. Common. 



Satyrus Semele. Common on the sea coast, eight miles from here, 

 and in the Isle of Wight. 



„ Janira, Tithonus, Megaera, ^Egeria, Hyperanthus and Pam- 

 philus. All common. 



