of Guernsey and Sark. 



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This description is quite as applicable to the cliffs of the 

 Channel Islands as to those of the Isle of Wight. The Glan- 

 ville Fritillary is common on our Guernsey cliffs from Fermain 

 Bay to Pleinmont Point. 



4. — Grapta C. Album. (Comma Butterfly). A curious 

 looking butterfly with deeply indented wings. The hinder 

 wings have a mark like a letter c on the under side, hence the 

 name. 



Mrs. Boley took one specimen in Sark some years ago. 

 It has been but rarely taken of late years in Jersey, although 

 it was once reported as not uncommon there. I have never 

 met with it in Guernsey.* 



5. — Vanessa Urticse. (Small Tortoiseshell). The pre- 

 vailing colour of the wings of this species is bright red-brown, 

 with spots and patches of black, yellow and white. The 

 caterpillar feeds upon the common stinging nettle. It is 

 common in Guernsey and Sark. I have some very fine speci- 

 mens, also smaller and darker ones, these latter were however 

 bred in confinement. There are evidently two broods in the 

 year, and June and September may be given as the dates for 

 their appearance. 



6. -— Vanessa Polychloros. (Large Tortoiseshell). The 

 pattern of this species is extremely like that of the preceding, 

 but the colours are duller and it may generally be distin- 

 guished by its larger size. The caterpillar feeds upon elm and 

 some other trees. This is not at all common here, but I have 

 taken several specimens in both Guernsey and Sark. It is to 

 be caught in July and August and hibernated specimens occur 

 during the spring. 



7. — Vanessa Io. (Peacock butterfly). So named from the 

 beautiful eye-like spots on each of the wings. The underside 



* Since the above was written, Colonel A. H. Collings Las kindly 

 given me a specimen, captured by himself in a garden at Clifton during 

 September, 1871. 



