190 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Cambridgeshire. — Chatteris, June 4tli, one, "hiber- 

 nated"; H. F. Fryer. 



Yorkshire. — Scarborough, about Jinie 3rd to 19lh, "very 

 bright in colour, not like hibernated"; W. Robinson and J. 

 H. Rowntree. Leeds, fine specimens at Upper Wortley ; 

 T. Benn. Ilkley ; Bernard Hartley. 



Lancashire.- — Southport, June 3rd, several; G. Eastham. 

 Middleton, six miles north of Manchester, in abundance ; 

 John Thorpe. Withington, near Manchester, several; A. 

 Aspinwall. Bury; R.Kay. 



Durham. — In considerable numbers (eighteen years since 

 the last capture); J. E. Robson. 



Carnarvon. — Llandudno, several ; J. Carter. 



Dumfriesshire. — Several, about 3rd and 4th June; W. 

 Lennon. 



I need only add that several contributors state the speci- 

 mens seen u'ere flying steadily from south-west to north-east, 

 simply giving this statement without offering an opinion 

 upon it. 



Eoyal Aquarium, Westmiuster, 

 June 21, 1877. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



On the Hibernation of Butterflies. — I was for a 

 fortnight during the early part of this month at Brockenhurst, 

 in the New Forest, and was particularly struck by observing 

 on the wing numerous specimens of Vanessa polychloros, 

 Pyrameis cardui, Gonepteryx rhamiii, and Colias Edusa. 

 The point that I am anxious for information on is whether 

 these butterflies had passed the winter in the perfect or 

 chrysalis state ? Has anyone ever found a chrysalis of any 

 of them in the u'inter mouths? It has always been my 

 opinion that the Vanesso hibernate in the imago state only, 

 and that those which hibernate have remained torpid 

 immediately after their emergence from the chrysalis, and 

 have flown only to a place of concealment. 1 have found 

 imagines of Vanessa Urticce nearly a foot below the surface, 

 in the crevices of chalk, when digging for fossils ; and from 

 the exposed position in which the chrysalids of the J'anessa 



