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CAMBEKWELL BEAUTY. 



WHITR BORnER. GRAND SURPRISE. 

 PLATE XXXI. 



Vanessa Anltopa, Ochsenheimer. Stephen.s. 



" " Duncan Curtis. 



Papilio Antiopa, Linn^us. Haworth. Lewin. 



" " Donovan. Harris. Wilkes, 



Eugonia Antiopa, Hubner. 



The wide uiiccitainty of the periodical appearance of this very fine 

 butterfly in our country is extremely remarkable, and "whither away.'" 

 between the dates of its visits is a question we cannot answer. About 

 eighty years ago it appeared in immense numbers. Again, in the year 

 1819, it was observed in abundance in all parts of the kingdom: com- 

 paratively few have been seen since, but latterly, within the last few 

 years, more have been met with, probably from having been better 

 looked after. 



The neighbourhood of Rawmarsh, near Rotherham, Yorkshire, is one 

 of the most uniform localities for this rare insect that I am aware of. 

 It has also occurred near Hudderfield; so, too, at Lockington, near 

 Beverley, from whence I received a fine specimen alive by the post, 

 about the year 1856, the donor being an entire stranger to me, and 

 requesting me to acknowledge its due receipt to "an old woman, 

 post-office, Lockington," which I accordingly did, with many thanks. 

 Also at York, Whitby, Allcrtlinrpe Common, and Lang with. In my 

 own garden at NafFerton Vicarage, near Driffield, one, as there seemed 

 no doubt tiiat it must have been, was seen by my servant a few years 

 since. It has occuried also near Cromer, Norfolk, and one was taken 

 near Yarmouth, in August, 1853, as Mr. M. C. Cooke has told me. 

 I thought that I once saw one, three or four miles south-west of the 

 city of Worcester. It has also been captured in the following localities, 

 the year 184(5 having been unusually productive of the species: — In 



