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which did not seem familiar to him, hover two or three times in a sluggish manner 

 about, or fly round, this lump of chips, and as many times settle on it. Then 

 he saw the insect crawl between the chips into the lump, on the side on which 

 the sun was shining. He carefully removed the chips and found Vanessa Antiopa, 

 apparently in a state of repose, on a small chip about a foot inside the lump. It 

 was a good specimen, but seemed in a semi-dormant state, and was secured without 

 difficulty. 



The border certainly is not white, but has a yellowish tendency. At the tip of 

 each hind-wing the margin is decidedly yellow. — A. J. Hay, Steyning, Sussex : 

 October \Sth, 1872. 



Vanessa Antiopa. — The following additions to the record of appearances of 

 Vanessa Antiopa this year, contained in last month's " Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine," may be welcome, and would seem to corroborate the hypothesis you 

 have broached as to the origin of the numerous examples observed. 



On 29th Aiigust, my friend, Mr. Eobert Hind, of this city, took one off the 

 summit of one of the palisades in front of the County Lmiatic Asylum in Bootham 

 here. Not being at all prepared for introduction to so distinguished an individual 

 at such a place and time, he had to trust to finger and thumb for securing it, and 

 succeeded, though with some detriment to its beauty. 



On 17th September, being at Muston Lodge (about IJ miles West of Filey), I 

 saw one in the bright sunshine, about nine a.m., sailing gi-acefidly along the summit 

 of a belt of rather lofty trees, which enclose the lawn and garden in front. Its 

 peculiarly stately, gliding motion first attracted my attention. I took it for a bird 

 unknown to me. I lost sight of it for a few moments amongst the foliage ; it 

 presently re-appeared, and I then saw it was a butterfly. In its pi'ogress round, it 

 descended low enough to enable me to identify, but, to my regret, not to capture 

 it ; and I saw it glide away not without some admixture of pleasure in the dis- 

 appointment at its evasion of the fate to which I would have liked to consign it. 



On the 19th September, our venerable friend, Mr. Thomas Allis, more fortunate 

 than myself, captured one in his garden at Osbaldwick (1^ or 2 miles from York), 

 which he has appropriately added to the rich collection of his late lamented son 

 (T. H. Allis), so munificently presented by him to the Museum of the Yorkshire 

 Philosophical Society. Mr. Allis had to improvise a net, — Vanessa Antiopa loitered 

 long enough for this, and its capture was accomplished. This, for a veteran natura- 

 list in his 85th year, is a noteworthy performance. 



One lias also been captured at Selby, another was seen by a lady at Bridlington, 

 and Mr. Mclnnis, of Beverley, informs me that several (5 or 6) have been seen or 

 taken at and near that town. 



Thus eight or ten examples at least, all occurring on or near the East Coast ot 

 Yorkshire, may be added to your list. 



Mr. Allis' specimen has the white border. It is rather smaller than the average 

 of some foreign examples in my possession. The one I saw appeared to me to have 

 the border white. 



Young collectors may derive encouragement from our venerable friend's expe- 

 rience, and indeed from my own. Having followed the pursuit for a period of 42 

 years or thereabouts, without once seeing an individual at large or alive, I had 

 ceased to hope that the pleasure of seeing one woidd be vouchsafed to me. 



