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Vanessa Antiopa in Leicester. — A fine specimen of this magniiicent butterfly 

 was flying about my brewery yard here to-day : it settled on a beer cask, but I 

 failed to secure it. — Frederice Bates, 15, Northampton Square, Leicester : 3ril 

 September, 1872. 



Vanessa Antiopa at Tunhridge Wells. — F. Antiopa has been captured by more 

 than one juvenile entomologist about here, and I have been fortimate enough to 

 secure tvro ; a male and female in fine condition : the latter I received alive. — 

 II. BuRNEY, Rosemont, Tunbridge WeUs : September 7th, 1872. 



Vanessa. Antiopa in Surrey.^On the excursion of the HolmBdale Natural His- 

 tory Club to Copthorne on the 24th ult., Mr. Gilbert took a fine specimen of Vanessa 

 Antiopa. In the pi-evious week, Mr. Gilbert captm-ed another specimen at Box Hill, 

 but, in consequence of his net having been caught in a bramble, the insect escaped. — 

 Sydney Webb, Eed Hill : 2nd September, 1872. 



Vanessa Antiopa in Middlesex. — -On Saturday last (7th inst.), Mrs. E. W. 

 Janson, who is well acquainted with this insect, obsei-ved a specimen of it hovering 

 for some time over a sallow bush, as if for the purpose of ovipositing, in Higligate 

 Wood. A niece of Mrs. Janson's has also recently seen at least two specimens, near 

 Totteridge.— E. C. Eye, 10, Lower Park Fields, Putney, S.W. : Sept. Uth, 1872. 



Vanessa Antiopia near York. — -A very fine specimen was seen near here by my 

 daughter, Mary Cornelia Morris, on August 22nd. — F. O. Morris, Nuubui'nholme 

 Rectory, Hayton, York : September 14th, 1872. 



Vanessa Antiopa at Ramsey, Hunts. — I have just heard from C. R. Bingham, 

 Esq., of Ramsey Yicarage, Himts., that he captured an Antiopa m his garden on 

 the 3rd of September. — Id. 



Vanessa Antiopa at Chatteris. — Mr. Alfred Fryer, of Chatteris, took a beautiful 

 female in his garden on the 25th of August, and whilst he was killing it, his little 

 son, Dan, caught another, a male, not quite in such good condition, but still a beauty. 



The female specimen is really so fine, with the fringes perfect, and the wings so 

 beautifully glossed, like " shot silk," that I should certainly say it was bred in this 

 locality. I do not believe in the " flying-over " theory. 



Both were taken at sugar on a pear tree. — W. Faeren, Howe House, Hunting- 

 don Eoad, Cambridge : September 16th, 1872. 



Vanessa Antio2')a in the West Riding. — I have to record the occurrence of six 

 specimens of Vanessa Antinpia in this part of Yorkshire. Three at Barnsley have 

 been secured by Mr. James Jackson, two of which I have had the pleasure of adding 

 to my own eoUection ; one at Spa Mill, near Huddersfield, now in the collection 

 of Mr. T. L. Moselcy, of this town ; one at Moor Bottom, Clecklieaton, in the 

 possession of Mr. John Firth ; and one at Bretton West has faUen to the lot of 

 Mr. Jackson. 



These were all taken during August or beginning of September in the present 

 year ; and, vritli the exception of the third Barnsley example, I have seen all the 

 sj)eciuiens. — Geo. T. Poeritt, Huddersfield : September 16th, 1872. 



