102 Beautiful Butterflies. 



being taken at all in the north. Yorkshire, Warwick- 

 shire, Hampshire, Northamptonshire, Middlesex, Suf- 

 folk, Surrey, Sussex, Kent, and Essex, are those 

 divisions of the country where it has been chiefly 

 captured; sometimes, as we have already shown, in 

 great numbers : so that it can scarcely be called a rare 

 fly. In several of the Kentish woods, not far from 

 where this little book is written, it may be found at the 

 proper season, but generally flying high out of the 

 reach of the net, so that the captures are not numerous ; 

 the chrysalides are occasionally found, and the Cater- 

 pillars sometimes, but very rarely. 



