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 INSECTS near Wye, and it has been reported from the Blean Woods between Canterbury and Heme Bay, from West Wickham and elsewhere in the county. The Queen of Spain Fritillary [A. lathonia, L.), which though very rare in this country is a common continental species, has been taken more frequently in Kent than in any other part of the United Kingdom. Many specimens have in the last fifty years been captured near Birch Wood, Darenth Wood, Gravesend, Milton, Shoreham, Heme Bay, Margate, Ramsgate, Deal, Walmer, Dover and Folkestone. The capture of thirteen specimens near Canterbury in 1868 has been recorded, and Mr. Sydney Webb states that eighteen specimens were taken near Dover in September, 1880. The number of captures of this species in Kent is no doubt due to the proximity of the county to the continent of Europe. The Pearl-bordered Fritillary [A. euphrosyne, L.) is generally distributed in the woods of the county except in the metropolitan dis- trict, where it has, in common with the majority of other butterflies, become extinct or extremely rare in consequence of the extension of buildings, drainage, London smoke and over cultivation. The Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary [A. selene, SchifF.) has long since disappeared from most of the woods near London, but it still occurs, more or less commonly, in the Blean Woods, near Heme Bay, in most of the woods between Wye and Canterbury, and in the southern and south- western side of the county near Tenterden. That very local species the Greasy Fritillary {Melitcea aurinia^ Rott.) occurred formerly in great abundance in the Ham Marshes near Sandwich, but owing to the rapacity of London and Canterbury dealers it gradually became scarcer, until in 1888 or 1889, in consequence of the drainage of the low-lying meadows, in which it used chiefly to occur, it almost disappeared, and at the present time is practically extinct. I am unaware of the occurrence of this local species in any other part of the county. The Pearl- bordered Likeness or Heath Fritillary {M. athalia, Rott.) used to be abundant in the Blean Woods near Canterbury, and in the south-west of the county in Knock Wood and other woods near Tenterden, and elsewhere on the borders of Sussex. It also occurred in other woods in the Weald, and was abundant in Chattenden Woods near Rochester, but disappeared suddenly from this locality some thirty years ago. It may still occur near Tenterden and in other woods on the borders of Sussex. The Small Tortoiseshell {Vanessa urticce, L.) is common throughout the county. The Large Tortoiseshell ' {V. polychloros, L.) is generally distri- buted and sometimes common, but is much less abundant than formerly. » The Granville Fritillary {Melittea ctnxia, L.) is recorded by the late Mr. W. O. Hammond as having formerly occurred about the cliffs near St. Margaret's Bay and near Folkestone. I have no knowledge of its occurrence anywhere in England within the last forty years except in the Isle of Wight. Mr. Ullyett also includes M. aur'mia in his list of ' Folkestone Lepidoptera.' If it ever occurred between Folkestone and Dover it has been long extinct. — H. G. 2 The Comma Butterfly {Fanessa c-album, L.) is said to have been common in the hop gardens about eighty or ninety years ago. Mr. Sydney Webb says that although it has now no fixed abode in the county a few specimens are annually captured to the east and west of Dover. It has been taken near Walmer and Alkham, and also at Shepherdswell in 1894. The specimens are no doubt immigrants from the continent. — H. G. 181