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 A HISTORY OF KENT recorded more frequently from Kent than from any other part of the United Kingdom, and many specimens have from time to time been taken in all parts of the county, especially about Broadstairs, Margate, Ramsgate, Sandwich, Deal,^ Dover, Folkestone and Hythe. This species, being common on the continent of Europe, would naturally be more frequently found in Kent owing to its proximity to the continent than in other English counties. The Orange Tip {Anthochar'u cardamines, L.) is generally distributed in lanes, roadsides, fields and woods. The Brim- stone {Gonepteryx rhamni, L.) occurs throughout the county and is com- mon in most woods and other places where its food plant is plentiful. The Clouded Yellow {Colias edusa, Fb.) is generally distributed through- out the county, and is, in certain seasons, abundant on the chalk downs and on railway banks, and in clover and lucerne fields, especially on the coast about Dover, Folkestone, Deal, Sandwich, Margate, Heme Bay, Westgate, Broadstairs and Ramsgate. It is also plentiful nearer London, as at Strood, Greenhithe and Dartford, and even in the metropolitan district in certain seasons. The white variety of the female (var. helice) generally occurs with the type more or less commonly, and I have taken several forms of great interest near Dover. The Pale Clouded Yellow (C. hyale, L.) is generally distributed throughout the county and is in some years abundant about Margate, Ramsgate, Deal, Dover and Folke- stone. It also occurs inland as at Maidstone, Yalding, Ashford and Wye ; in the metropolitan district about Dartford, Greenhithe and Eltham, and even close to London. I found it commonly near Dover and Folkestone in 1888. The Silver-washed Fritillary {Argynnis paphia, L.) occurs in some of the Kentish woods, but it is not abundant as it is in the New Forest and in the Forest of Dean. I am not aware of the occurrence in Kent of the melanic variety of the female (var. valezina),^ but the late Mr. Ramsay Cox reported having on one occasion seen a specimen in a wood near Sturry, The Dark Green Fritillary [A. aglaia, L.) is generally distributed throughout the county both on the chalk hills and in the wooded part of the weald. It is common on the North Downs between Canterbury and the North Foreland and about Folkestone, Dover, Otford, Shoreham, West Wickham and everywhere on the downs. I have found it abundantly at the base of the downs to the north of Folkestone and between Folkestone and Dover. The High Brown Fritillary {A. adippe, L.)' is not so generally distributed as the last species, but it is not uncommon in some localities near Watering- bury and near Sevenoaks. It also occurs in Kingswood and Penny Pot Woods, between Wye and Canterbury. I have taken it in Eastwell Park 1 Colonel Swinhoe about six years ago recorded in the Entomologist the capture of three specimens at Deal.— H. G. Forest, where it is, in some seasons, very common. I have never seen it in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire or on the banks of the Wye.. It has been reported as occurring singly in Devon, Dorset and Sussex. — H. G. 3 Mr. Farn records the capture of one specimen at Chattenden Woods in 1876, and Mr. Fenn says it formerly occurred at Darenth. Mr. Goodwin says it is fairly common near Wateringbury. — H. G. itio
 * I doubt the occurrence of this variety in Kent. In my experience it is confined to the New