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LULWORTH SKIPPER.
PLATE LXX.
Hesperia aclaon, OCHSENHEIMEB. CURTIS.
Papilio aclaon, ESPER. HUBNEE.
Pamphila acfccon, STEPHENS. WOOD. DUNCAN.
" " WESTWOOD.
Thymelinus actavn, HUBNER.
IN company, some years ago, with my friend J. C. Dale, Esq.,
late High Sheriff of Dorset, I formerly captured this, then
newly by him discovered insect, I mean as a British one, in
plenty at Luhvorth Cove, Lulworth, Dorsetshire—a charming
scene, where you will be fain to wish that you could for
ever watch the glorious ocean, dashing up from its dark depth
against the steep cliffs, which there present an aspect of the
utmost seclusion and the most lonely retirement. Wild must
all around be in Avinter, but this small butterfly rejoices in
the settled summer, more fortunate than some of its class,
who are tempted out to AVOO the "beautiful spring:" often
their reception is cold and chilling, and their day-dream of
happiness is blighted like the contemporary delicate flower
that has peered out too soon from its sheltered nook, and
must again hide its head for a season, till the skies are more
propitious, and the sun shall shine undisturbed upon it.
NOAV it is not to be seen there, though it is still to be
found at the burning cliff, near Weymouth, where my friend
the Rev. Francis Lockey, of SAvansAvick Cottage, near Bath,
has taken it in plenty; Mr. Humphreys, also, at Shenston, near
Lichfield.
In this small species the expansion of the wings is about an