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WHITE-W HAIRSTREAK.
PLATE XXXIX.
Thecla TV-album, HUBNER. GODART. STEPHENS.
" " CURTIS. DUNCAN.
Papilio W-album, VILLEBS.
" pruni, LEWIN. HAWOETH. DONOVAN.
Thecla pruni, LEACH. JEEMYN.
Strymon W-album, HUBNER.
Lycana W-album, OCHSENHEIMER.
HAPPY in all its aspects is "Rural life in England," and
not the least so when the love of Natural History gives a
zest to every Avalk and ride, and invites you moreover into
calm and peaceful scenes, Avhere, for the most part, the beauties
of nature are seen to the greatest advantage.
I have captured this pretty species in numbers at High
Melton Wood, near Doncaster. It is rather difficult to procure
it at a sufficiently low elevation. It has also been obtained at
Barnwell and Ashton Wold, and the neighbourhood of Pole-
brook, Northamptonshire; near Windsor, in Berkshire; IpsAvich
and Bungay, in Suffolk; Allesley, in Warwickshire; Southgate,
in Middlesex; and in Cambridgeshire; also in the vicinity
of Ripley, in Surrey, Avhere it Avas observed by Mr. Stephens
in myriads in the year 1827. It is partial to the bramble
blossom.
The fly occurs in July.
It is said to feed on the elm and the blackthorn.
The Avings expand to the Avidth of from a little under an
inch and a quarter to nearly an inch and a half. The fore
Avings are of a uniform dark blackish broAvn. The hind vvings
are of the same dark ground colour, with a minute white