INSECTS 



Stainton at Chudleigh and Great Haldon ; of Mr. George T. Porritt of Huddersfield ; Mr. W. F. 

 de Visme Kane of Monaghan ; the late Major-General George Garden of Surbiton ; the Rev. Canon 

 Cruttwell of Ewelme ; Mr. Herbert Goss of Surbiton ; Mr. J. Jaeger of London ; Mr. Richard 

 South, editor of the Entomologist ; and many others have been consulted and used. 



RHOPALOCERA 



PlERIDAE 



Aporia crataegi, Linn. (Black-veined White butterfly) 

 The late Canon Tristram, writing to Mr. G. T. 

 Bethune Balcer, says, ' I was at Torquay in ill-health in 

 the spring and summer of 1854. ^° the late spring or 

 early summer I came across numbers of this butterfly 

 in one field, a grassy slope, with rather steep banlcs, 

 adjoining a wood. I think it was what they call the 

 Castle Hill, but I have never been there since. I 

 never saw the insects anywhere else. All that I cap- 

 tured were in the same field ; I filled a store box, and 

 for some years supplied my friends from it.' Another 

 locality in which it was reported to have been taken is 

 Moreton Hampstead ; but there is no reason to believe 

 that it has occurred in the county for at least half a 

 century. During that period it has disappeared from 

 all parts of England in which it formerly existed, 

 except from the south-eastern corner. 



•Pieris brassicae, Linn. (Large White) 

 ** — rapae, Linn. (Small White) 



* — napi, Linn. (Green-veined White) 



— daplidice, Linn. Recorded at ^wi?^«;y ^Wnr. 



Exeter in 1843 — one specimen only — ^and 

 another at Culver in 1877 



Anthocharis cardamines, Linn. (Orange Tip). 

 Widely dist., sometimes scarce on the north 

 coast, and on the wing in some years as late 

 as June. 



Leucophasia sinapis, Linn. (Wood White). Found 

 near Exeter in 1 8 5 5 ; at Stoke near Barnstaple 

 in 1859 ; and in various subsequent years at 

 Torquay ; Honiton ; Tiverton ; Bickleigh Vale ; 

 Newnham Park ; Woodbury ; Catshill ; Hols- 

 worthy ; Instovi ; and Bridestowe. Still to be 

 found on the south coast in abundance three 

 or four miles east of Sidmouth and between 

 this locality and Bere-Regis flying on broken 

 slopes of the cliffs, and even over the shingle 

 down to the sea-margin. The late Maj.-Gen. 

 Garden found it in 1890 near Teignmouth. 

 — H. G. 



Colias hyale, Linn. (Pale Clouded Yellow). Ply- 

 mouth; Dartmouth; Teignmouth ; Rame Head; 

 Sidmouth; Totnes ; Torquay; Babbington ; 

 Honiton ; Morthoe ; always casual and uncertain 



— edusa, Linn. (Clouded Yellow). Plymouth; 



Exeter; Exmouth ; Datvlish ; Torquay; Sid- 

 mouth ; Dartmouth ; Teignmouth ; Honiton ; 

 Barnstaple ; Morthoe ; llfracombe ; perhaps 

 everywhere in certain years, and then abund- 

 ant. The pale variety — helice — is not rare, 

 and a small form sometimes called var. 

 chrysotheme is occasionally met with 

 •Gonepteryx rhamni, Linn. (Brimstone) 



LYCAENIDAE 



Thecla betulae, Linn. (Brown Hair-streak). Ply- 

 mouth ; Sidmouth ; Datvlish ; Dartmouth ; Honi- 

 ton ; the glens of Dartmoor ; Axminster ; and 

 various localities around Exeter. A very local 

 species 

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LYCAENIDAE {continued) 



Thecla quercus,Linn. (Purple Hair-streak). llfracombe 

 indChambercombe Woods; Barnstaple; Instotv ; 

 Morthoe ; Bridestowe and all the oak woods 

 Around. Dartmoor ; Stoke; Honiton; Starcross ; 

 Plymouth district and Sidmouth 



* — rubi, Linn. (Green Hair-streak). Sidmouth; 

 Salcombe ; Honiton ; Stoke ; Bickleigh Vale ; 

 Great Haldon; Chagford ; Bideford ; Ban- 

 staple ; Morthoe ; on moors among genista 

 and even furze, and often settling freely 

 among cotton-grass 



*Chrysophanus phlaeas, Lind. (Common Copper 

 butterfly) 



— circe, Hb. dorilis, Hfn. At a meeting of the 



Ent. Soc. London, in August, 1890, Prof. 

 Meldola exhibited a male specimen captured 

 zt I l/racombe, August, 1887. Nothing further 

 is known of this specimen, nor has any other 

 been recorded here. Probably it was acci- 

 dentally introduced with plants or otherwise, 

 from abroad 

 Polyommatus aegon, Sihiff. (Silver-studded Blue). 

 Teignmouth ; Torquay ; Bovey Tracey ; Bolt 

 Head; Pinhay Cliffs 



— agestis, Hb., medon, Esp. (Brown Argus). Ply- 



mouth ; Datvlish ; Teignmouth ; Salcombe; New- 

 ton Abbot ; Starcross ; Exeter ; Braunton Bur- 

 rows ; Morthoe 

 * — alexis, Hb., incarus, Esp. (Common Blue) 



— adonis, Hb., bellargus, St. C. (Clifden Blue). 



Formerly locally common at Torquay ; Seaton 

 and Sidmouth, on calcareous formations on the 

 south coast. Still found nr. Torquay, as re- 

 ported by Mr. G. T. Porritt 



— argiolus, Linn. (Holly Blue). Plymouth; Teign- 



mouth ; Dawlish ; Paignton ; Sidmouth ; Dart- 

 mouth ; Exeter district, WooSury ; Stoke ; 

 Barnstaple ; Instow ; Morthoe ; in two gene- 

 rations 



— alsus, Schiff., minima, St. C. (Bedford Blue). 



Plymouth ; Dartmouth ; Teignmouth ; Seaton ; 

 Torquay ; Tinhay Cliff and Meavy Vale ; in 

 calcareous districts 



— anon, Linn. (Large Blue). Formerly plentifiil 



on the cliffs of Bolt Head and Bolt Tail near 

 Salcombe ; now very nearly exterminated there 

 from frequent burning of the furze ; also at 

 one time nr. Ashburton ; and very rarely nr. 



tNemeobius lucina, Linn. Dartmouth ; also once 

 taken by Mr. Parfitt in Dunsfird Wood 



NYMPHALIDAE 



Apatura iris, Linn. Newnham Park; Dunsford 

 Wood ; Starcross ; rarely nr. Tiverton. Sel- 

 dom captured, though sometimes seen flying 

 about the summits of oaks 



Danais plexippus, Linn., archippus, Fab. During 

 about fifteen years, from 1876-90, a gallant 

 and noble attempt was made by this grand 



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