lyo ELLIS : LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE LEPIDOPTERA. 



Giles. — Formerly common on the New Brighton and Wallasey 

 sandhills (J.F.B. and C.S.G.). 



Mr. Edleston records a specimen of the variety Charlotta, 

 Haw., which 'has the silvery spots near the base of the wing 

 much larger, two pairs of them coalescing,' captured at Blackpool 

 in 1843 (ZooL, ii., 399) ; Mr. Gregson (Ent., iii., 209) also 

 records three specimens of this variety from Bootle. 

 Argynnis papMa, L. Silver-washed Fritillary. 



Delamere, common (J. CM.); said to have occurred near 

 Bolton (J.C.). 



Fam. SATYRWyE. 

 HIPPARCHIA, Fab. 



HipparcMa semele, L. Grayling. 



Abundant on all the coast sandhills from the Dee to South- 

 port. Bidston Hill, abundant (J.F.B. and J.W.E.) ; formerly 

 abundant in the Cheadle-Hulrae district, but very local at 

 Bramall, and not seen there since r868 (H.H.C); Grange 

 (J.B.H). 



EREBIA, Dahn. 



Erebia sethiops, Esp. = medea, Hiibn. = blandina, Fab. Scotch 

 Argus. 



Abundant at Silverdale (S.J.C.); Grange (J.B.H.); recorded 

 from Colne, near Burnley (J.B.H., Intell., 1859, ii., loi). 



MELANARGIA, Meig. 



Melanargia galathea, L. Marbled White. 



Recorded from Preston, in his ' British Butterflies ' by the 

 Rev. F. O. Morris, but I know not on what authority. 



SATYRUS, Latr. 



Satyrus meg^ra, L. Wall. 



Common, and generally distributed- — except in the Manchester 

 district, where (J.C.) it is not nearly so common as formerly, and 

 about Cheadle-Hulme, where it is very scarce (H.H.C.). 

 Satyrus gegeria, L. Speckled Wood. 



Generally distributed, but apparently nowhere common. 



Lane— Bolton (WJ.); Grange (J.B.H. and E.S.) ; and 

 Silverdale (J. CM.) 



Ches. — Delamere (J.C.M.); occasionally in the wooded parts 

 of Wirral (J.F.B. and C.S.G.) 



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