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SOME NOTES ON LOCAL LEPIDOPTERA 

 BY THE LATE R. G. CLAYTON.* 



VanpA-^a anflopa ami V. io at MiihJJenInv/i'jJi. — Many years 

 .ago I took a perfect specimen of the Caniberwell Beauty ( Vanessa 

 antiopa) off the Pottery wall, M'hich is about 500 or 600 yards 

 away in a direct line from St. Hilda's Church ; and often captured 

 specimens of the Peacock ( Vanessa io) upon the Dock Hill, but 

 have not seen any since the enlargement of the Dock water area 

 took place. 



[I remember myself some years ago seeing single specimens 

 of Vanessa io taken near the Albert Park and also at the Docks, 

 but I have not seen or heard of it being taken in this district for 

 some years now. — T. A. L.] 



Hihemation of Vanes!<a urfine at MiildJeshrough. — On 17th 

 March, 1895, I took a living specimen of a common Tortoise-shell 

 Butterfly (Vanessa mfic<e) from otf the window next to the Vestry 

 in St. Hilda's Church, Middlesbrough, and, excepting one winter 

 since then, there has always been one of these insects in the same 

 -place. In November last I noticed, suspended from the stone- 

 work, an apparently defunct fully-developed imago, but, on the 

 23rd instant, during service, it descended to the bottom of the 

 window and was very lively. 



Of course, records of the api)earance of a Tortoise-shell 

 Butterfly during Avinter are extremely numerous, but wdiat is most 

 peculiar in the jiresejit instance is that only upon one windo\v, 

 and that one of those most exposed in the Church, should there 

 have been a succession of the insects over so many years. The 

 Church stands in the Market Place, in the middle of the town, 

 and is in the midst of a very smoky district, and the side which 

 the insects have aff"ected is due north. There is a small hole for 

 the drainage of moisture at the bottom of the window, and they 

 have probably made an entrance there. — R. G. Clayton, 67, Douglas 

 Terrace, Borough Road, Middlesbrough, 25th February, 1902. 



* Rt'piinted IVom the "Naturalist." 



