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PLATE XXIX.
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LARGE TORTOISE-SHELL.
Vanessa polychloros, OCHSENHEIMER. CURTIS.
" STEPHENS. DUNCAN.
Papilio polychloros, LINN.EUS. HAWORTH. LEWIN.
" DONOVAN. ALBIN. WILKES.
Eugonia polychloros, HUBNEB.
THIS is a very fine species, though painted with no particu­
larly gay colours: it is at the same time sufficiently common.
I have seen this insect in the parishes of Bossall and
Huttons Ambo, Yorkshire, and have taken it in a wood a few
miles from Worcester, in which county it is tolerably plentiful.
I also once procured the larva, and reared it to the perfect
insect, at Charmouth, Dorsetshire. It is common in the neigh­
bourhood of Feversham and Milstead, near Sittingbourne, Kent,
where the Rev. Henry Hilton has taken it, and occurs at
Barnwell and Ashton Wold, and the neighbourhood of Polebrook
and Lilford, Northamptonshire. In the woods of Suffolk and
Essex it is very plentiful, at least in those near Stoke Nayland
and Colchester. It occurs also near Great Bedwyn and Sarum,
Wiltshire; plentifully at Bradfield, Berkshire, where my second
son, Reginald Frank Morris, has taken it in the caterpillar
state; in the neighbourhood of London; and also at Ely, and
other parts of Cambridgeshire; in Norfolk occasionally, as
Mr. Robert Marris informs me; and, though rarely, in the
woods on the banks of the River Dart, in Devonshire.
In Scotland, it has been found as far north as Dunkeld, and
in other places to the south of it.
This butterfly comes out in the middle of July, but some
individuals, hidden away probably in some sheltered corner,