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GENUS I. BUTTERFLIES. 



SEC. III. S P. XXVI. SMALL ARGUS. 



PL 2 3 . 



Pamphilus. Linnœus. 

 Small Gate keeper. Harris. 



The middle of April, if the fpring be mild, thefe fmall butterflies make 

 their firft appearance. The caterpillars that produce them are bred late in the 

 autumn, and feed on grafs. When the winter begins to affect them, they 

 fecrete themfelves in holes, under clods of earth, or at the roots of grafs. On 

 the approach of fpring, they crawl out, and feed again, and are full fed by 

 the firlt week in April, as at fig. i . They then fatten themfelves up by the tail, 

 and change to chryfalides, as at fig. a, in a fhort time afterwards. The enclofed 

 fly is perfected, and comes forth, in eighteen or twenty days. There appear 

 to be two or three broods of this infect in the fummer, as we fee frefh and per- 

 fect fpecimens on the wing in April, June, and Auguft. It is a common but- 

 terfly in all our meadows and dry paftures. The upper part of the male is 

 delineated at fig. 3, the under fide at fig. 4. The female differs but little 

 from the male. 



SPE. XXVII. MANCHESTER ARGUS. 



Hero. Linnaus. 



This butterfly was fcarcely known in England till lately ; when a gentleman 

 found feveral in a moorifh or fwampy fituation, near Manchefter j and, from 

 their local attachment to the fame place, he takes them on the wing every year 

 in July. The fly I have figured from one in Mr. Francillon's magnificent col- 

 lection of foreign and Britifh infects. The upper part is reprefented at fig. 5, 

 and the under part at fig. 6. 



