THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Vol. XVIIL] DECEMBEE, 1885. [No. 271. 



ANOSIA PLEXIPPUS, Linn. 

 By J. Jenner Weir, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E S. 



In the 'Entomologist' for 1876 (vol. ix., pp. 267, 268) I gave 

 a short account of this insect under the name by which it was 

 then generally known, viz., Danais archippus, Fabr. A figure of 

 the larva was also given attached to the Kev. T. E. Crallan's 

 communication, recording the capture of the insect at Lindfield, 

 Sussex, near Hayward's Heath (Entom. ix. 205). Mr. McLachlan 

 has been good enough to furnish me with an unrecorded instance 

 of the capture of this butterfly near Poole, Dorsetshire. The 

 date of capture is not quite certain, but was probably 1876, 

 the year in which others were taken in England and South 

 Wales. 



This year nine specimens of the insect have been seen on the 

 wing in the counties respectively of Dorset (Ent. Mo. Mag., xxii., 

 134), one specimen captured; in Devonshire, one was captured 

 at Plymouth, and formed the subject of a communication read at 

 the meeting of the Entomological Society in October last ; six, of 

 which four were taken, occurred in Cornwall (Entom. xviii. 290, 

 291); and Mr. Lester Arnold, Bedford Park, Chiswick, writes to 

 me that a fresh and strongly-marked specimen was seen by him 

 on the Ventnor Parade, Isle of Wight, early in September last. 

 It was not caught, but he has no doubt of the identity of the 

 insect, having had opportunities of seeing allied Danaine butter- 

 flies in their native countries, and being familiar with our British 

 species. The insect flew low down within a foot or two of 



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