PEACOCK CAMBER-WELL BEAUT7. V2\ 



winter some largo stacks of beech faggots, which had 

 been loosely stacked up in our forest (Epping) the 

 preceding spring, "with the dead leaves adhering to 

 them, were taken down and carted away, and among 

 these were many scores of Io, Urticce, and Polgchloros." 

 In Scotland tins is generally a very rare butterfly, 

 but has latterly been abundant in Dumfriesshire and 

 K i t kc udbr ightshir e. 



^-6 . 

 THE CAMBERWELL BEAUTY. 



• (Vanessa Antiopa.) (Plate VIII. fig. 3.) 



Ma nt years ago, when Camberwell was a real village, 

 luxuriating in its willows, the entomologists of the day 

 were delighted by the apparition, in that suburb, of 

 this well-named. " Beauty," whose name since then has 

 always been associated with Camberwell — certainly not 

 a promising place in the present day for a butterfly 

 hunt, for, though it has its " beauties " still, they are 

 not of the lepidopterous order, nor game for any net 

 that the entomologist usually carries. Since then it has 

 ocon iound at intervals, and in very variable abundance, 

 in a wide range of localities. 



The arrangement of colours in this butterfly is most 

 remarkable and unusual, by reason of the sudden con- 

 trast between the pale whitish border and the velvet 

 depth of the colours it encloses. 



