BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



ADDENDUM. 



THE following notes respecting Doritis Apollo 

 will be read with interest, but I cannot say 

 that I consider them to warrant my placing 

 this species in the British list 



I have recently heard that the Papilio 

 Apollo o Linnaeus has been found in Scotland, 

 but I have not seen a British specimen 

 Haworth, " Lepidoptera Britannic^," pre- 

 face xxix. See also Haworth in " Entomo- 

 logical Transactions," vol. i, p. 232, and 

 Donovan's " British Inaects" vol. xiil, 

 p. 433. 



I was informed by the late Sir William 

 Hooker that in 1812, or about that dute, 

 Apollo is said to have occurred in the Island 

 of Lewis, and was taken by a tenant of Lord 

 Seaforth's, who had the specimen, but that 

 there being at that time some communication 

 between Norway and the Island of Lewis, the 

 Deciraen might have come from Norway 

 'J. O. Dais. 



'Che late Mr. Haworth informed me that a 

 lady, whom Mr. Curtis believed was the 

 Marchioness of Bute, told him she had re- 

 ceived a specimen from some alpine place on 

 the West Coast in the North of Scotland 

 /. C. Dale. 



Mr. Curtis was convinced he saw a speci- 

 men of Apollo flying over the top of a house 

 at the foot of Ben Lawers ; and afterwards, 

 on seeing this species on the Continent, he 

 felt assured he was correct J. C. Dale. 



Mr. Wailes, of Newcastle, told me he had 

 a correspondent in Lewis or Harris, from 

 whom he had received many insects, especially 

 Carabus arvensis and C. clathratus, who 

 knew Apollo well, and said he had taken it ; 

 and he particularly described the red ocelli 

 J. 0. Dale. 



Mr. Floyer, M.P., told me he had seen a 

 specimen of Apollo in Sir C. Tre veil van's 

 cauuiee J. C. Date. 



Sir C. Lemon wrote to me that he had 

 taken a specimen of Apollo in Cornwall, but 

 suggested that it might have been imported 

 with plants in his hothouse J. C. Dale. 



Obs. Mr. Dale, who has so repeatedly 

 assisted me during the progress of this work 

 through the press, kindly sends me the pre- 

 ceding information, in accordance with my 

 own request. 



As you wish for more particulars about the 

 capture of Apollo, I have been to-day to see 

 the person who took it, and hear from his 

 own lips all about it. He was lying on the 

 cliffs at Dover, in the end of August or the 

 beginning of September, 1847 or 1848 (he 

 cannot remember which), when the butterfly 

 settled close to him, and not having his nets, 

 he captured it by putting his hat over it. He 

 then carried it to his lodgings, shut the win- 

 dow and door, and let it go in the room and 

 secured it He had not the slightest idea 

 what it was till he saw it figured in some 

 work afterwards. The insect has all the 

 appearance of having been taken as he de- 

 scribes ; and as he has no object to deceive, 

 and is a person in whom I can place implicit 

 con6dence, I have no doubt, in my own mind, 

 that the specimen is a British one. It will 

 probably be in my own collection before this 

 letter reaches you, when I shall be most happy 

 to show it to you at any time you are this way 

 G. B. Wottaston, "Zoologist" for 1856, 

 p. 5001. 



I beg to inform you that I yesterday met a 

 gentleman who assured me that he saw Apollo 

 at Hanwell about six years ago. He chased 

 it, but without success. This gentleman's 

 veracity may be relied on. At a time when 

 Apollo's claim to be a British insect is under 

 discussion, every scrap of information is of 

 value Henry Austin, in the " Zooloyifit" ioe 

 1856, p. 5109. 



