Butterflies

Lepidoptera The Chequered Skipper Butterfly – Carterocephalus Palamon This is another local insect, more so even than the last, but it sometimes appears in profusion in certain limited districts. Kettering, Oundle in Northamptonshire, and Monk’s Wood in Huntingdonshire are places where it has been taken freely. It appears in June. The wings are chequered with […]

Lepidoptera The Meadow Brown Butterfly – Epinephele Janira Although this very common butterfly is usually considered to be the dingiest of its family, yet it must be admitted that the colour of a freshly emerged specimen is really very rich. The male is of a dark brown colour, with an indistinct patch of a lighter […]

Lepidoptera The Large Tortoiseshell Butterfly – Vanessa Polychloros Our two tortoiseshells-large and small-are very similar in their colour and markings, and moreover are not always to be distinguished by their size, for specimens of the larger species are sometimes even inferior in this respect to the largest of the smaller species; so, to avoid all […]

Lepidoptera The Common Blue Butterfly – Lycana Icarus Although this pretty little butterfly is so common that it is almost sure to be known to all who take any interest in insect life, yet it is important to observe it carefully, since it is an easy matter to confound it with other species of the […]

Lepidoptera The Silver-spotted Skipper Butterfly – Hesperia Comma Fig. 96.-The Silver-spotted Skipper-Under Side. This species is very similar on the upper side to the last, except that the squarish spots of both fore and hind wings are much paler and much more distinct; and here, too, the male (Plate VII, fig. 16) is to be […]

Lepidoptera The Green-veined White Butterfly – P. Napi A non-observant beginner at entomological work may easily mistake this insect for the last species, for the ground colour and markings are very similar, even to the features by which the sexes are distinguished from each other; but an inspection of the under surface will give a […]

Lepidoptera The Bath Or Green-chequered White Butterfly – P. Daplidice There is no doubt that many butterflies migrate from one country to another across the seas; and as the Bath White is very common on the other side of the Channel, and has been taken very sparingly in England almost exclusively in the south-east, it […]

Lepidoptera The Wood White Butterfly – Leucophasia Sinapis The distinguishing feature of this butterfly (see Plate II, fig. 1) is the extreme lightness and delicacy of its build. Its wings are narrow, and rounded at the tips; and the only mark to relieve the white ground of the upper side is a squarish blotch at […]

Lepidoptera The Pearl-bordered Fritillary Butterfly – Argynnis Euphrosyne There is very little difference in the size of this and that of the last species, but Euphrosyne (Plate II, fig. 6) is generally a trifle larger. The two butterflies are also very similar in appearance; indeed, they are so much alike on the upper side that […]

Lepidoptera The Grizzled Skipper Butterfly – Syrichthus Malva The ground color of this species is a very dark brown, relieved by a number of square white spots arranged as shown in fig. 11 of Plate VII. The fringe is wide, and barred with the same two colours, arranged alternately. The pattern of the under side […]