NOTE ON THE CAMBEBWELL BEAUTY BUTTERFLY. 31 



Of two specimens in the possession of Mr. John Hancock, one 

 is from Walker, bnt the locality of the other is unknown to me. 



One was taken by Mr. "W. Dinning at "Wylam. 



One specimen was taken and another seen near Durham, by 

 Mr. E. Raine, on the 23rd of August. Other specimens were 

 seen on wing on the 24th and 30th of the same month. Two 

 more were afterwards noticed in the city of Durham, and Mr. 

 Raine had a worn female sent to him from Castle Eden Dene. 



A specimen was seen at Rothbury, by Mr. J". H. Rowntree, 

 another at Newbiggen-by-the-Sea, by Mrs. "Wassermann; and 

 yet another near Warkworth. 



All the above mentioned specimens appear to have occurred 

 between the 20th of August and the end of that month, and, 

 with the exception of Mr. Maling's, all have the white bordered 

 wings which are said to characterize British and Scandinavian 

 examples. 



Specimens have, I hear, been taken near Alnwick, and further 

 north, but of them I have no particulars. 



In the Entomologists' Monthly Magazine for November, 1872, 

 p. 138, Mr. John Sang records the capture of three specimens at 

 Darlington, and one at Barnard Castle. Several more were seen 

 but not taken. He also notices the occurrence of an example at 

 Saltburn, and of three more at Richmond. Dr. White, in that 

 interesting periodical, the " Scottish Naturalist," Vol. II., p. 16, 

 informs us that six specimens have been taken in Berwickshire. 

 So it appears that this beautiful creature had been pretty evenly 

 distributed over Yorkshire,* Durham, Northumberland, and Ber- 

 wickshire. 



Several theories have been advanced to account for the sudden 

 appearance in unusual numbers of this conspicuous insect. Some 

 suppose them to have flown over to us from the Continent, and 

 as the specimens generally are of the northern type, to have come 

 from Scandinavia. But this would be a flight of more than three 

 hundred miles over a stormy sea, a feat which I do not believe 



* Several notices have appeared of this species having been taken in other localities 

 in Yorkshire. 





