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It is not a common species in England, although it 

 sometimes occurs in particular localities in considerable 

 numbers. Kent, Wilts, Somerset, Bedford, Hants, and 

 Northampton, are the English counties in which it has 

 been captured, as well as in North Wales. The specific 

 name Avion is one which occurs in the mythology as that 

 of a celebrated poet and musician, who so delighted the 

 dolphins with his harmony, that when he threw himself 

 into the sea one of them became his horse, and brought 

 him safely to land — very like a whale ! 



I have now introduced you to one, at least, in several 

 instances to many, of the most remarkable members of 

 the different genera of the Diurnal Lepidoptera, in which 

 British species are included ; there is one genus, how- 

 ever, which has no representative in this parliament of 

 Butterflies. This is the Skipper genus, called, in scien- 

 tific language, Hesperia, probably from Hesperus, the 

 evening star; they are all small brown, or orange- 

 coloured flies, variously chequered and marked ; there 

 are seven British species, mostly found in and about 

 woods. The genera Pontia and Mancipium are like- 

 wise unrepresented here ; to the former belong the white 

 flies, which are so common at certain seasons of the 

 year. The wings of some of these are delicately veined 

 with black, and sometimes with green, and they are all 

 worthy of a close inspection. In the latter genus we 

 find the pretty Orange Tip, the Large Black- Veined or 



