THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Nos 162&163:] DECEMBER, MDCCCLXXVI. [Prict ls. 
Danais Archippus in Sussex. By Rev. THomas E. CRALLAN. 
Larva or DANAIS ARCHIPPUS. 
For some two or three years there have been rumours of 
the appearance in this neighbourhood of an unusual butterfly. 
The different people who have told me what they have seen 
have varied so much in their descriptions that it would be 
very difficult to believe that they had not seen as many 
different species, if it were not that persons not thoroughly 
familiar with the objects they attempt to describe are so very 
apt to give the most opposite descriptions of the same 
thing. 
One lady saw a butterfly in her greenhouse, which she was 
sure was like some she had seen in India; but, neglecting to 
shut the windows before attempting to capture the insect, 
she had the mortification of seeing it escape. Another lady 
described to me a butterfly, which she had seen, as white, 
with a blue rim round its wings. I thought she had seen 
Vanessa Antiopa, and, being dazzled by sunlight, had 
transposed the colours. Then, another lady saw a butterfly 
drying its wings on the stem of a tree after emerging from 
the chrysalis, and described it as yellow, with black lines 
across its wings. Of course this was the appearance of the 
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