126 NOTES ON THE LEPIDOPTERA OF LEIGH, ESSEX,
A. adippe and A. paphia. Eastwood; not common. I have
often seen adippe in the cottage gardens near the wood at Hadleigh.
A. lathonia. Southend; rare. Five specimens were recorded
as having been captured here in 1868 (see "Entomologist," iv, 160)
Vanessa polychloros. Common in some seasons.
V. urticae, V. io, V. atalanta and V. cardui. All common.
Melanargia galatea. Common along the coast and on the
slopes near Hadleigh Castle.
Pararge egeria and P. megaera. Common; the former at
Eastwood.
Epinephele janira and E. tithonus. Common.
E. hyperanthus. Common at Eastwood. We did not observe
any of the spotless form.
Coenonympha pamphilus. Common.
Thecla rubi and T. quercus. Common at Eastwood.
Polyommatus phlaeas. Common all over the district.
Lycaena astrarche. Hadleigh Castle. One specimen only in
1860.
L. icarus. Common.
L. corydon. I captured a male on the slopes between Leigh
and Southend some years ago. It was probably a railway excursionist
from Purfleet.
L. argiolus. Common at Eastwood. Formerly abundant in the
shrubbery at Southend.
Nemeobius lucina. Eastwood; not common.
Syrichthus malvae Common at Eastwood in the waste places.
Hesperia thaumus and H. sylvanus. Common.
Heterocera.
Acherontia atropos. Scarce. I have one specimen which was
given to a friend by a Leigh shrimper, who said he had "drudged" it
from the bottom of the sea. It had evidently sheltered over night in
the trawl net, and had not been observed until the net was hauled.
Another shrimper gave me an example of the mole-cricket (Gryllotalpa
vulgaris), found under similar circumstances.
Sphinx convolvuli. Southend. My brother, G. E. Vaughan,
captured one at rest on a post in 1860.
S. ligustri. Common.
Deilephila galii. Mr. H. Nicholls informed me, many years ago,
that the larvae had been taken at Southend.