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sufficient to enable them to decide a question of this kind. Upon 

 this point I can give no opinion, but, on referring to several works, 

 I find that in England it is there a rare species. The following 

 extracts, taken from the Zoologist, 1846, will shew how it is prized 

 by the entomologists of that country. 



Occurrence of Vannessa Antiopa at York. — A specimen of this rare 

 British butterfly was brought to me alive this day, which was caught in 

 a garden in the suburbs of this city ; it and two others were flying in 

 company with the red admiral {Vanessa Jttalanta.) The captor was 

 unsuccessful with the others, he being only provided with a rhubarb 

 leaf, with which he knocked the one down, that is now in my possession. 

 — Robert Cook, Colliergate, York." 



" Occurrence of Vannessa Antiopa near Epping. — A female specimen 

 of this insect was captured here on the 12th instant, and another seen. 

 A fine female was also taken about the same time near Yaxely. — Harry 

 Douhbleday ; Epping, September 2Qth, 1846." 



" Occurrence of Vanessa Antiopa at Winchester. — On Friday, Septem- 

 ber 4th, I had the pleasure of taking a fine female specimen of this rare 

 and beautiful insect, near some willows ; 1 have seen three others near 

 the same spot. — John T. Rogers; North Walls, Winchester." 



" Capture of Vanessa Antiopa near Stowmarket. — Entomologists will 

 be pleased to hear that they have now an opportunity of witnessing in a 

 fine and perfect state, a specimen of the splendid butterfly, ' Vanessa 

 Antiopa' — Gamberwell Beauty. A pair of this fine species were caught 

 on Wednesday last, in the grounds of the Vicarage, Stowmarket, which, 

 from their rare appearance, are rendered exceedingly interesting and re- 

 markable, their visits here appear to be at very remote and uncertain 

 periods, for until four or five years previous to 1819, Vanessa Antiopa 

 had not been seen for nearly forty years, when it was observed in abun- 

 dance in various parts of the kingdom. In 1819, a few were caught in 

 Suffolk, and one was taken in the following spring, which had lived 

 through the winter ; since that period it has not been seen in England. 

 Those caught at Stowmarket were found on the mulberry-tree, near the 

 Vicarage House, planted by Milton, during his residence with the Rev. 

 Dr. Young, the then Vicar, and who was tutor to the immortal poet, and 

 no doubt the wide spreading branches of this celebrated tree attracted 

 the notice of the butterflies in their search after food. We have been 

 informed that Dr. Probart captured one of these beautiful insects in his 

 garden one day last week. — Ipswich Paper." 



From the above extracts it will be seen that this insect, which 

 is quite common in Canada, is regarded as an object of the 

 greatest interest in Britain, The English specimens have the 

 border pure white, and ours, although unquestionably the same 

 species, is, therefore, one of those instances in which a difference 

 of several thousands of miles in the geographical range of a 



