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IT may be of interest to put on record the fact that on Sept. 21 I saw a quite fresh-looking specimen of the Comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album) feeding at Sedum spectrabile in my garden here. My wife and I watched it together for ten minutes—several Tortoise-shells and Red Admirals were feeding also. The Comma butterfly, according to South's “British Butterflies” (published by Warne), p. 65, is “now almost entirely confined to Herefordshire, Worcester-shire, and Monmouthshire”. I have taken it at Chepstow years ago when I was a keen butterfly collector, but have not met with it in England since, though I have often seen it on the Continent in Corsica, Dauphiny, etc. I should doubt if a specimen of the Comma has been recorded in London for a hundred years.
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DAWE, F. The Comma Butterfly in England. Nature 124, 653 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124653a0
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