The YOtfHG HATtfBAMST: 



A Monthly Magazine of Natural History. 



Part 67. JULY, 1885. Vol. 6. 



THE ENTOMOLOGICAL YEAR. 



By ALBERT H. WATERS, B.A. 



JULY. 



" Supremely fair the world does seem,' 



Now sunshine floods with golden light 

 Mountain and mead and moorland stream. 

 All natnre smiles ! gay butterflies 



Their wings with gorgeous colours decked, 

 Some blue as azure southern skies, 

 Some with metallic silver flecked, 



Flutter about the blossoms bright." . 



How enjoyable in July is a ramble through the leafy woods where the 

 air is deliciously cool in the shade of the trees. As we walk along we see the 

 Eritillary butterflies, with their silver spangled and argent-banded wings. 

 Last month there were other kinds of these butterflies about than the species 

 we see now, but they have lived out their short span of existence, and now 

 Aglaia, Selene, and fflipkrosgne have passed away, and Paphia and Adippe 

 take their places. The former is known to entomologists, who delight in 

 in English names for butterflies and moths, as the Silver-washed Fritillary. 

 It is a larger insect than the Adippe or the High-brown Fritillary, and may 

 be readily distinguished by the young naturalist by that circumstance alone. 

 Moreover, it has silvery streaks or bands on the underside of the hind wings, 

 while Adippe has the underside of these wings spotted with silver. 



I am supposing that the wood into which I have been taking you in 

 imagination is one of the ordinary character. Were it an oak wood we might 

 expect to see the Purple Hair-streak butterflies (Thecla quereus) flying high 

 up among the trees ; and also, soaring in the air above their summits, that 

 much coveted insect of which the poet Crabbe sings — 



" Above the sovereign oak a sovereign skims 

 The Purple Emperor, strong in wing and limbs; " 

 and flying at a much lower altitude we should, in all probability, see the 

 White Admiral butterfly (Limenitis Sibylla), the white bands on the wings of 



