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** August 7th, 1831, saw a single but perfect specimen of the 

 Camherwell Beauty. Just as I was going to take it up, it 

 escaped. It flew strong and high, and was lost in a plantation 

 at Norton." " September 2nd, 1842, I caught a fine specimen 

 of the Camherwell Beauty {Vanessa Antiopa), whilst it was 

 busily sucking an apricot against a south wall in my garden at 

 Norton." Once near Gibside. — Mr. J. Hancock. One seen near 

 Twizell some years ago. — P. J. Selhy^ Esq. A specimen at 

 Longhirst about the middle of August, 1857. — Ent. W. Intelli- 

 gencer, ii. 182. 



4. V. PoLYCHLOROs, Linn. 



Papilio Polychloros, Linn. S. Nat. ii. 777. — Don. Brit. Ins. 

 viii. 69,;?/. 21^.— Wood Ind. Ent. t. 1,/ 2Q,.—Hub. Pap. 

 81, 82. V. Polychloros, Steph. Illust. Haust. i. 42. — 

 Staint. Alan. i. 39. 

 Larva. Hiib. Gesch. Pap. I. Nymph. C. c. i. — Dup. Icon. i. 

 pi. 2,/ 39. 

 The claim of this sj^ecies to be admitted into our local fauna 

 rests at present, as mentioned in my introductory remarks, solely 

 on the authority of Wallis ; but there is no doubt that he was 

 fully aware of its distinctness from the next species, which he 

 also mentions, and with which alone it could be confounded. I 

 give the whole of what he says : " The Tortoise-shell Butterfly is 

 not unfrequent in Alpine woods and shady pastures, in July and 

 August. I have also observed it in gardens." In the note of 

 authorities which he appends to each insect — for it must be borne 

 in mind that specific names were then unknown — any question 

 about its identity is entirely set at rest by the following: " Pa- 

 pilio Urticarum referens major alis amplioribus, quam Ulmariam 

 vocitare soliti sumus" (i?r(/'. Ins. p. 118, n. 2). — " Papilio tes- 

 tudinarius major" {Petiv. Mils. p. 34, n. 315). — " Papilio tetrapus ; 

 alis angulatis fulvis nigro maculatis primariis punctis quatuor 

 nigris" {Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 232, n. 773; List. Goed. 5, f. 3; 

 Alhin. Ins. 56). 



It is certainly strange that this conspicuous species should not 

 have been met with by any other person than the reverend 



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