92 Vmiessa Antiopa and Colias Edusa. 



obtained by me here, daring the autumn ; C. Richardsonii for 

 the first time. 1'he specimen of Qatar actes Pomarinus in its 

 adult plumage, the others are immature. 



ScoLopax Major — Solitary Snipe. A specimen of this rare 

 species was shot a few weeks ago at East Bolton, near Alnwick. 



Beadnel, October, 1858. 



Notice of the capture of Vanessa Antiopa, and Colias Edusa, 



in the northern part of Northumberland, in the Autumn 



0/-1858. By P. J. Selby. 



In the first week of September I was informed by my 

 Gardener that a butterfly, with wings of a dark uniform 

 colour with a deep border of yellowish white, had made its 

 appearance in the garden at Twizell, and was observed in 

 company with numerous specimens of Vanessa atalanta to 

 feed upon the decaying gooseberries which had fallen to the 

 ground. From his description, I felt assured it must be the 

 Vanessa antiopa (Camberwell beauty), making for the first 

 time, so far as I can ascertain, its appearance in this northern 

 locality. Watching the place where it was first seen, it soon 

 returned and was secured with the net. On the following day 

 another beautiful example was captured near the same spot, 

 and I have also ascertained that two specimens of the same 

 species were taken during the same week at Belford, about 

 three miles north of Twizell. The fine condition of these in- 

 dividuals shewed that they had been very recently excluded 

 from the chrysalis, and it seems to lead to the conclusion that 

 they must have undergone their transformation ftom the egg 

 to the Imago in this locality. 



I have also to record the capture of another species equally 

 rare, if not more so, in the north of England, viz : a fine fresh 

 male example of the Colias Edusa, which was taken upon the 

 moor between Belford and Chatton on the 20th of September, 

 and presented to me on the following day by a lady, into 

 whose hands it had fortunately fallen. 



Query. — Are we to attribute this unwonted northern distri- 

 bution of these rare and beautiful insects to some peculiar 

 influence in connection with the hot southern summer of 1857 ? 



List of Berwickshire Spiders. By James Hardy. 



The present communication contains the results of occasional 

 attention paid to the Berwickshire Spiders. It is, doubtless, 

 far from complete, from my having collected principally near 

 the hybernating period, and from the ground examined being 



