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the border of a forest. V. antiopa hybernates, and appears in 

 spring, together with V. polychloros, V. urticce, V. c-alhum, &c. 

 (also Gonepteryx rliamni). When the butterfly leaves the 

 chrysalis in July it has a yellow border; in spring its border is 

 paler, sometimes light yellow, often quite white. I caught four 

 V. antiopa this morning ; one of them had a yellow border, 

 turning white at the outer side. I saw two or three more flying. 

 I often noticed that later in spring (May or even sometimes early 

 in June) the borders of V. antiopa are perfectly white, all the 

 yellow colour having faded. You may be quite sure that those 

 specimens of Vanessa antiopa which sometimes have been caught 

 in England have come from the Continent, and are hybernated 

 specimens having white borders. No caterpillar of V. antiopa 

 ever has been found in England. The hybernated butterflies 

 never are quite perfect ; the wings are always more or less broken. 

 — M. Wurzburger; Creuznach, Eh. Prussia, April 10, 1887." 



Vaness.a. antiopa in Sussex. — On the 20th August last a 

 boatman caught a specimen of V. antiopa at St. Leonard's-on- 

 Sea. The beautiful insect had settled on his coat while on the 

 beach. It had a yellow border, so I suppose it had blown over 

 from the Continent. It is now in my collection. — A. J. Field ; 

 145, Isledon Road, Seven Sisters' Road, Finsbury Park, N. 



Vanessa c-album, &c., in North Worcestershire. — On 

 Good Friday, April 8th, I visited a locality in North Worcester- 

 shire, and met with Vanessa c-alhum in abundance, flying in 

 company with Vanessa io and Gonepteryx rhamni. They all 

 seemed to prefer the sheltered valleys and open spaces in woods. 

 — W. Harcourt Bath ; Ladywood, Birmingham. 



Vanessa c-album in Sussex. — Whilst collecting larvae of 

 Micro-Lepidoptera on April 11th, between Shoreham and 

 Bramber, I was fortunate enough to capture a fair specimen of 

 Vanessa c-album, being, I believe, the first taken in the county of 

 Sussex for many years. — A. C. Vine ; Temple Street, Brighton, 

 April 18, 1887. 



Apatura iris in the Forest of Dean. — This insect used 

 to be taken occasionally about twenty years ago in the Forest of 

 Dean in Gloucestershire, but I have heard of no recent capture. 

 Can any reader of the ' Entomologist ' inform me of the occurence 



