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ROCK-EYED UNDERWING.
GRAYLING.
PLATE XVII.
Hipparchia semele, OCHSENHEIMEB. LEACH.
" " STEPHENS. DUNCAN.
Papilio semele, LEWIN. DONOVAN.
" " HAWORTH. HARRIS.
Satyrus semele, LATEEILLE. BOISDUVAL. DUPONCHEL.
Eumenis semele, HUBNER.
I HAVE seen this interesting insect in the parish of Naffertcn,
Yorkshire, on the scanty remains of heath on the road to the
hamlet of Pockthorpe. The whole of the Yorkshire Wolds,
now all enclosed, were, fifty years ago, open downs, with
heath and gorse scattered here and there: it is but very little
that is left. Then you could ride over the Wolds, so I am
told, from Driffield to Malton, twenty miles, without meeting
with a hedge or a gate—all was turf—fine old downs: now,
'quantum mutatus,' it is one of the principal corn-growing
districts of England. The naturalist must sigh for 'il tempo
passa,' with which has flown the great Bustard, and doubtless
many other species of birds once common, or which were at
all events far more numerous than they are now; but he must
console himself with the absolutely true adage that "whatever
is, is best."
The following are also localities, among others, for this
species:—the Isle of Bute and the Isle of Arran; near Durham
South Shields, Castle Eden Dene, in the county of Durham-
the Gog Magog Hills, the neighbourhood of Newmarket and
Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire; Salisbury Plain, in Wiltshire-