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Vanessa C-album,
ts Si
Papilio C-album,
Polygonia C-album,
Comma C-album,
COMMA.
PLATE XXXII.
OCHSENHEIMER. CURTIS.
STEPHENS. DUNCAN. WESTWOOD.
LINNJEUS. LEWIN. DONOVAN..
HARRIS. ALBIN.
HUBNER.
EENNIE.
THIS very handsome and singularly-shaped species has been
noticed very abundantly two successive years by Mr. Graham,
of York, near Green Hammerton, Yorkshire, alighting in hun­
dreds on the blossoms of the common wild scabious; and James
Dalton, Esq. has taken it at Hackfall, so celebrated for its
beautiful scenery. It also occurs near York. I have seen it
occasionally near Doncaster, and in other parts of the same
county. I have also taken it in plenty in the neighbourhood
of Broomsgrove, Worcestershire, in all parts of which county
it is doubtless to be found, as it also is throughout Warwick­
shire. Other localities for it are Lilford, Barnwell, and Ashton
Wold, and the neighbourhood of Polebrook, Northants. It used
formerly to be taken at Glanville's Wootton, Dorsetshire, by J.
C. Dale, Esq., but is now never seen there. It is very rare
near Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, and very abundant near Bristol,
and doubtless in other parts of Gloucestershire. In Hertford­
shire it also occurs,-and the neighbourhood of London; and in
Scotland, in Fifeshire.
The perfect insect appears in June, and in August or Sep­
tember, there being two broods in the year, the latter of which
is paler in colour than the former. Some individuals live
throughout the Avinter, and re-appear the folloAring spring in