A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies

Foreword iv Preface v Adonis Blue 1 Walter Rothschild & Miriam Rothschild 4 Black Hairstreak 5 Brimstone 8 Brown Argus 11 Brown Hairstreak 14 Camberwell Beauty 17 Chalkhill Blue 20 Chequered Skipper 23 Clouded Yellow 26 Comma 29 Common Blue 32 Dark Green Fritillary 35 Dingy Skipper 38 Duke of Burgundy 41 Essex Skipper 44 Gatekeeper 47 Eleanor Glanville 50 Glanville Fritillary 51 Grayling 54 Green Hairstreak 57 Green-veined White 60 Grizzled Skipper 63 Heath Fritillary 66 High Brown Fritillary 69 Holly Blue 72 Large Blue 75 Large Heath 78 King Boris III of Bulgaria 81 Large Skipper 82 Lulworth Skipper 85 Marbled White 88 Marsh Fritillary 91 Meadow Brown 94 Mountain Ringlet 97 Northern Brown Argus 100 Orange-tip 103 Margaret Fountaine 106 Painted Lady 107 Peacock 110 Pearl-bordered Fritillary 113 Purple Emperor 116 Purple Hairstreak 119 Red Admiral 122 Ringlet 125 Scotch Argus 128 Silver-spotted Skipper 131 Vladimir Nabokov 134 Silver-studded Blue 135 Silver-washed Fritillary 138 Small Blue 141 Small Copper 144 Small Heath 147 Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary 150 Small Skipper 153 Small Tortoiseshell 156 Speckled Wood 159 Swallowtail 162 Wall Brown 165 White Admiral 168 Sir Winston Churchill 171 Whites, Large and Small 172 White-letter Hairstreak 175 Wood White 178 A glimpse of some rarities 181 Acknowledgements 183 Bibliography 184 Photo credits 185 Index 186