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On the Occurrence of the Camberwell Beauty ( Vanessa 

 Antiopa) in the Club's District, with Notices of other 

 Lepidoptera. 



The prevalence this season of Vanessa Antiopa, hitherto a 

 rare Butterfly throughout Great Britain, has elicited quite a 

 plethora of communications in natural history periodicals. 

 Our attention was first called to it by Mr Thomas Tate. 

 " On the 20th of October last," he writes, " I saw one alight 

 upon the outside of the window frame of the windows of 

 Lesbury House, and I examined it for a considerable time 

 before leaving the room to go out and try to capture it." It 

 had been disturbed, however, before Mr Tate reached it. He 

 reports another having been seen a short time before, by Mr 

 James Dand, upon a wall at Alndyke. V. Antiopa appeared 

 rather plentifully near Durham, and also in the vicinity of 

 Newcastle. In the " Entomologist," VI., p. 237, Mr J. C. 

 Wassermann notifies : " My wife has seen a specimen of 

 Antiopa at Newbiggen-by-the-Sea, and my brother-in-law 

 saw another at Warkworth." Again, at p. 259, Mr J. H. 

 Rowntree records one seen at Rothbury. In our Proceedings 

 its appearance has been twice previously recorded : first, in 

 1845, when Mr Brodrick saw two on Twizel moor, about the 

 middle of August (vol. II., p. 198) ; and Mr Selby, at Twizel, 

 in September, 1858, secured two fresh examples, which 

 appeared to have been very recently excluded from the 

 chrysalis ; and two more were taken during the same week at 

 Belford (vol. III., p. 92). In Berwickshire, during the 

 autumn, seven examples have been noticed. Mr W. Shaw 

 communicates, that one was caught and two seen near Eye- 

 mouth ; one was caught at Clarabad, one at Netherbyres, 

 and another near Lauder. " The fineness of one of them 

 would go against its having travelled far." Mr J. Anderson 

 states, that "one was captured here (Preston) by Mr Watts, of 

 Ayton, and is in my brother's collection. It has the white 

 border (peculiar to British and Scandinavian specimens), 

 which appears to have been the common type of colouring." 



Some other Lepidoptera of unfrequent occurrence have also 

 come to notice. 



A caterpillar of the Poplar Hawk-moth (Smerinthus 

 Populi), was reared by Mrs T. D. Smith, of Alnwick, and 

 reached a perfect state ; and Mr W. Shaw has obtained two 



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