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it. I think it has a taste for fruit, having beemseen near the 

 peach-house." — ^Journal of Horticulture^^ Sept. 19, 1872. 



Norlhuraberland. My wife has seen a s])ecimen ofAntiopa 

 at Newbiggen-by-the-Sea, and my brother-in-law saw another 

 at Wark worth. — /. C. Wassermann. 



Somersetshire. One seen near Taunton. — J. Gatcomhe. 



Suffolk. We have just taken at Oakley, August 29th, a 

 specimen of Vanessa Antiopa : it was seen resting on the 

 front wall-plate of a fig-house ; it next visited the peach- 

 liouses, where I made an unsuccessful attempt to capture it. 

 In half an hour it came back to nearly the same spot; and 

 was finally taken resting on the border close to a few peaches 

 that were ripening on the open wall. I think it is more than 

 likely it has a taste for fruit, like its near relative V. Atalanta. 

 — IVm. Robins ; Oakley Park; ^Journal of Horticulture ^ 

 September 12, 1872. 



Surrey. V. Antiopa appears to be unusually numerous 

 this season : a tine specimen was caught at Buxted a fort- 

 night ago. Subsequently another rare butterfly, Pieris 

 Daplidice, was caught while hovering over some lavender 

 flowers. — Edtvard Luckhurst ; ^Journal of Horticulture.^ 



Sussex. On Monday, September 2nd, at Maresfield, the 

 seat of Lady Shelley. — Edward Netvman. 



Warwickshire. About ten days since I had a fine 

 V. Antiopa brought me that had been captured at Middleton, 

 a village four miles from here. — Egbert D. Hamel ; Tam- 

 worth, October 3, 1872. I caught, on the 19th September 

 ult., a specimen of V. Antiopa in Combe Wood. — H. Vicars ; 

 Rugby. 



Yorkshire. On Wednesday, 21st August, a friend of mine 

 took a specimen of V. Antiopa at rest on a manure heap. — 

 Jno. Harrison ; 7, Victoria Bridge, Barnsley. On August 

 16th, I had brought to me alive a fine specimen of Antiopa, 

 by a person who had taken it off a wall at Keighley the previous 

 day. — B. Millar; 83, Hanover Street, Keighley, York- 

 shire. I hear that four specimens of V. Antiopa were 

 seen at Hovingham, about the third week in September: 

 two were captured, and a third might have been, as it sat for 

 a long time on a window, but its value being unknown it was 

 allowed to escape ; and a person in Driffield says that she saw 

 a large, dark butterfly, with a light-coloured border, fluttering 

 outside her window. — G. R. Daicson ; Driffield. 



