LEPIDOPTERA OF THE BRISTOL DISTRICT. I57 



Glos. Mr. Robert Mayes has one in his 

 collection, which was captured by his father, 

 near Dnrdham Down, more than twenty years 

 since. A specimen was taken near the Gully, 

 DurdhamDown, in August, 1872, by Mr. Clark. 

 " My friend, Mr. Hill, saw a fine specimen of 

 V. Antiopa near "the Berkeley Road Station, 

 on August 5th, 1875, but did not succeed in 

 capturing it." J.Preston, in '"Entomologist," 

 VIII. j!?. 220. *' One was seen by Mrs. Harding, 

 at Downend, in August, 1877." g.h. 

 *' V. Antiopa has been seen in the Stroud 

 Cemetery (in 1872) by the former keeper, an 

 accurate observer." w.f.w. 

 [It has also been recorded from Newnham and 

 Cheltenham, which are, however, outside my 

 district.] 



Somerset. "■ Goblin Coombe, near Bristol." 

 James Francis Stephens, in the " Zoologist," 

 Vol. III., p. 945. His account is so good, I 

 give it verlatim. '' While cntomologising in 

 Goblin Coombe, a romantic glen near Cleeve, 

 Somerset, in August last (1S44), a fine specimen 

 of this beautiful insect settled on a rock before 

 me, and ere I could secure it, took flight and 

 ascended a lofty precipice ; in a few moments 

 it re-appeared almost in the original spot, but 

 again took flight down the precipice, and finally 

 eluded my grasp, to my great mortification." 

 A specimen was taken near the Bourton Rail- 

 way Station (G.W. Rail.), about August, 1866. 

 Dr. Livett tells me — " Two were seen, one 

 captured on the Mendips, near Wells, in August, 

 1872." Mr. Crotch recorded one from near 



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