WATFORD NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



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Audited and found correct, / JOHN ATTFIELD, 

 Februarxj 2ud, 1878, ( CHAS. A. BOOTH. 



Ordinary Meeting, 10th March, 1878. 



Alfred T. Brett, Esq., M.D., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Henry "Wyman, Hemel Hempstead, was elected a Member 

 of the Society. 



The following paper was read : — 



" On British Butterflies." By the Rev. C. M. Perkins, M.A. 

 {Vide]). 63.) 



Mr. Arthur Cottam gave some particulars of his own experience in collecting. 

 With regard to the female orange-tip {Anthocaris Cardaiuines) being mistaken 

 for the Bath white [Pieris Daplidice), he remembered an instance of the reverse — 

 Daplidice mistaken for the female Cardumines. He had had the pleasure of taking 

 a male Daplidice at Margate in 1868, and a few minutes later he took Argynnis 

 Lathonia and about twenty specimens of Volias Eyale. Although this was usually 

 rare, it was sometimes as abundant as C. Edusa. In 1868 he saw a good many on 

 the South Coast, although none had been seen there for some years before. He 

 believed that Hipparchia Semele was chiefly found in the Chalk districts. It 

 settled with its wings closed, and in this state it could scarcely be distinguished 

 from the chalk. Several specimens of the Camberwell beauty ( Vanessa Antiopa) 

 were seen in the neighbourhood of Hoddesdun in 1875, and it had certainly been 

 also seen in Middlesex. 



Mr. Sydney Humbert said that he had been told by his brother, who had 

 lived in Spain, that the swallow-tail {Feucedanuin pulustre) was as common 

 there as the cabbage whites {Fieris Brassicw and Jtapce) were in England, and 

 that it flew in the air like a bird, rising to a great height. He had brought a few 

 specimens of it to show, and a few others which, though very scarce in England, 

 were just as common abroad. He mentioned an instance of the Camberwell 

 beauty having been seen by a farmer in a harvest-field on the eastern side of 

 the county. 



