86 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF ESSEX.
Not common, but probably generally distributed in our larger
woods. Apparently rarer now than formerly.
Hartley and Hamlets Wood and Bromley Thickets (Jermyn;
V.M. 67). Great Bromley (E. Alston ; E.W.I. ii. 143, 151). Col-
chester, St. Osyth, has been more scarce during the last two or three
years than formerly (Harwood ; B.B. 32). Still common in Col-
chester district (Harwood). Rare, Epping (E. Doubleday ; Ent.
Mag. iii. 285). Used to occur in quantity, Hainhault Forest (English;
Proc. E.F.C. iv. xxxiii.) Common, Epping, in 1844, "but I have
not seen one now for many years" (English ; E.N. i. 110). Epping
(S.M. i. 42). Near "Wake Arms," Epping Forest (A. J. Rose ; Ent.
xvi. 151). Not uncommon, Brentwood (Raynor). Felstead (Rep.
F.S.N.H.S. ii. 44). Eastwood, not common. "I have often seen
A. adippe in the cottage gardens near the wood at Hadleigh"
(Vaughan ; E.N. iii. 126). Sparingly in Parson's Wood, near
Woodham Mortimer Church (Raynor, T.E.F.C. iii. 37). Hazeleigh
Hall Wood, in August, on thistles, not common (Fitch). Not com-
mon, Witham (E. H. Burnell, M.N.H(2). i. 601). Sudbury (W.
D. King ; B.B. 33). Abundant in large wood, Essex, and one var.,
cleodoxa (Button ; Ent. v. 221). "Essex" (Stephens).
Argynnis paphia, L. Silver-washed Fritillary.
Geographical Distribution—Europe, Asia, except extreme north. Throughout
Britain.
Larva—Blackish-brown, broad yellow streak on back, bordered with black
spots ; spines long, reddish-ochreous, with black tips. Food—Violet, wild rasp-
berry. Imago—July and August ; hibernates as larva.
Formerly abundant in most of our larger woods, now rare and
local.
" Whether seen on the wing and shooting through a gleam of
sunshine in the recesses of a wood, or settled upon a lofty purple-
headed thistle [or bramble spray], and alternately erecting and ex-
panding its silvered wings, this is certainly one of our finest and
most attractive butterflies" (W. D. King ? ; F.S.J., Dec, 1838).
Lexden and Stour Woods, Bromley Thickets, Hamlets Wood, Hut-
ton's Grove, Beaumont (Jermyn ; V.M. 67). Great Bromley (Al-
ston ; E.W.I. ii. 143). Formerly common in Highwoods, Colchester,
now very scarce ; still common at Donyland and St. Osyth (Harwood).
"Usually one of our commonest species" (H. Doubleday ; Ent. i.
374). Larvae first met with in 1838 (H. Doubleday, in litt.). Epping