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under side, and was very puzzling, though, as it turns out, 
fairly accurate. Waiting till one of my party should pass 
that way, but occasionally looking at it, she allowed the day 
to slip away, and going to capture it in the evening—of 
course it was gone. Then my sister, who has been familiar 
with the habits and flight of our English butterflies from 
early days, and has observed those of insects in Southern 
Europe, brought me word that she had seen a butterfly 
unlike any English one she knew, and more resembling, in 
flight and general appearance, some which she had seen in 
the South of France. I was still too incredulous to make a 
search in the vicinity for the stranger, and did not come 
across it accidentally in my rambles. However, on the 
evening of October 17th, my housemaid brought me a collar- 
box, with the infortnation that a young labourer, living about 
a quarter of a mile off, had caught a “ bug” in a field at the 
back of his house at dinner-time, and thought I should like 
to have it. (Every insect is called a “bug,” hereabouts.) 
From long experience I expected a larva of Cossus ligniperda, 
but on applying my ear to the box I heard a rustling of 
Wings; and, opening it very carefully, beheld a fine specimen, 
almost perfect, of Danais Archippus. 
We are an entomological household, and the excitement 
generated amongst us by the sight of so grand an insect 
fluttering in a gigantic cyanide bottle, to which it was at 
once transferred, may be more easily imagined than described. 
Upon setting the specimen the next morning I found a 
scratch across the corner of the left-hand upper wing, and a 
very slight rubbing of the upper surface, but that the lower 
wings were still wrinkled, showing that it had not long 
emerged from the chrysalis. Altogether, considering it had 
been caught in a hat, and kept seven hours in a box before 
it came into my hands, it may be considered in very good 
condition. 
I have had the pleasure of showing the insect, soon after 
capture, to Mr. Jenner Weir and Mr. Douglas, of H.M. 
Customs, and of leaving a tolerably accurate drawing of it, 
natural size, with the former gentleman. 
Considering the rumours mentioned above, I am inclined 
to hope this beautiful insect may have become naturalised in 
this district. 1 cannot understand this having been an 
