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that morning, and I had the fortune to secure it while settled on 

 a gravel walk. It is a fine specimen, ot's in. in expanse, and 

 very richly coloured ; the margins are of a straw-yellow colour. 

 AVith the exception of the margins being slightly chipped, it was, 

 apparently, freshly emerged. — F. W. Frohawk ; Balham, S.W., 

 August, 1883. 



Vanessa antiopa in Kent. — It may not he uninteresting to 

 record the capture, in the window of a chemist's shop in Margate, 

 of a very fine specimen of Vanessa antiopa. From its freshness I 

 should say it could not have long emerged ; and the border is 

 lighter, and size slightly larger, than that of the usual continental 

 specimens. I have never heard of a specimen being cauglit in 

 this neighbourhood, though Coleman gives Kamsgate as one of 

 the places of its capture. — F. Stanley; 6, Clifton Gardens, 

 Margate, September 7, 188R. 



Vanessa antiopa in Kent. — A specimen of this butterfly was 

 captured on August 31st. by the son of tiie station-master of the 

 Warren Station of the S. E. Railway, near Folkestone. I saw 

 the insect just as it was being pinned, and it is now in my 

 possession. Owing to its having been captured with the boy's 

 cap, the specimen is somewhat rubbed, though otherwise perfect. 

 It may be of some interest to mention tliat on the same day I 

 took a female specimen of Argynnis aglaia, drying its wings ; on 

 September 5th, over a dozen specimens of Melanargia galatea 

 were noticed, drying their wings ; and up to the time I left the 

 tlie locality, although I was looking for the species, I only saw a 

 solitary example of Lyccena hellargm. — H. W. Barker; 83, 

 Brayard's Road, Peckham. 



Food of Vanessa polychloros. — The larvae of this species, 

 according to my observation, generally feed on elm, and on 

 branches rather high up, frequently towards tlie end of their life- 

 time committing such devastation as to render the branch very 

 conspicuous through ahsolutel}' stripping it of its leaves. I have 

 also occasionally found the larvse feeding on willow of various 

 species, but I was hardly prepared for finding a nest, as I did on 

 July 10th of this year, feeding on a low branch of a white-heart 

 cherry tree, in a private garden situated in the town of Brentwood. 

 Although Newman, in his ' British Butterflies,' records cherry as 

 a food-plant, I think Vanessa liolycldoros eats it so rarely as to 



