BRITISH BUTTERFLIES, 



Many Hampshire localities are mentioned by 

 my correspondents. 



Herefordshire. Occurred at Leominster in 

 1858 and 1859 Mrs. Hutchinscn ; Oakley 

 Park, near Hereford F. E. Hurman. 



Hertfordshire. Many localities F. Bond. 



Huntingdonshire. Many localities F. 

 Bond. 



Kent. The caterpillars were plentiful on 

 elms by the Fox and Hounds at Darent Wood, 

 in 1830, and the butterflies of very frequent 

 occurrence iu Burnt Ash lane, Lewisham, 

 in the spring of 1856, after hybernation E. 

 Newman ; the caterpillars were plentiful on 

 an elm tree in Tonbridge school ground in 

 1869 C. L. Raynor ; abundant at Faver- 

 sham, Botighton, and other places, the cater- 

 pillars feedingonthe white beam (Pyriisarria), 

 elm (Ulmus), and goat willow (Salix caprea) 

 H. A. Stowell 



Lancashire. I have seen one specimen 

 taken at Red Scar, near Preston J. B. 

 Hodgkinson. 



Lincolnshire. Common T. H. Allis. 



Middlesex. In many localities F. 

 Bond,. 



Norfolk. Norwich C. G. Barrett. 



Northamptonshire. Barnewell Wold F. 

 Bond ; near Towcester Hamlet Clark. 



Nottinghamshire. Was formerly taken at 

 Mnns6eld, Ollerton, and Worsop, but not 



met with of late years R. E. Brameid ; at 

 Newark, but not common George Gascoyne. 



Shropshire. Wenlock G. G. Barrett. 



Somersetshire. Clevedon A. E. Hudd. 



Staffordshire. Scarce at Burtoti-on-Trent 

 E. Brown ; one at Wolverhampton F. E. 

 Morris. 



Suffolk. Generally distributed. 



Surrey. In all parts of Surrey S. T. Klein, 



Sussex. I once found the caterpillars in 

 ab u u dance feeding on aspen ( Populus tremula) ; 

 they were nearly full-fed, and I succeeded in 

 rearing more than a hundred of the perfect 

 insect C. V. C. Levett. 



Warwickshire. Not uncommon ; some 

 specimens were taken at Stratford-on-Avon, 

 attracted by the sweets of empty sugar-casks 

 in a grocer's yard W. G. Colborne ; Rugby 

 A. H. Wratislaw. 



Wight, Isle of. Moderately common it 

 woods James Pristo ; a dozen different 

 localities are mentioned by different corre- 

 spondents. 



Wiltshire. At Marlborough, but very un- 

 common T. A. Preston. 



Worcestershire. Taken on three occasions 

 at Worcester J. E. Fletcher ; one specimen 

 at Malvern W. Edwards. 



Yorkshire. Near Scarborough, Hudders- 

 field, York, Sheffield, WakefielJ, and Halifax, 

 Edwin Birchall and others. 



4. The White-bordered, called also the Camberwell Beauty (Vanessa Aidiopa). 



1 1. THE WHITE-BORDERED. The hind mar- 

 gin of all the wings is angled ; the colour a 



rich puce-brown ; 11 the wings have a broad 

 band of dingy wh te on the bind margin, and 



