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Another member of this family, D. Berenice, is of rare 

 occurrence in the Bermudas ; Mr. Hurdis having only seen 

 some three or four specimens during his long residence on 

 the Islands — one of which, captured hy Mr. Hunt Marriott, 

 of H.M. Customs, on the 5th July, 1850, was of a drab or 

 cream colour. 



The Red Admiral (Fawessa atalantd) is not uncommon, 

 and is met with from April to November. It frequents 

 gardens and road sides, the larvae feeding upon the common 

 stinging nettle, which grows freely in many places. It is 

 probably the American species, to which Sir Charles Lyell, 

 in his " Second Visit to the United States of America," 

 aUudes in the following words : — " In one of the cabinets 

 of Ohio insects, I saw (at Cincinnati) specimens of that 

 common English butterfly Yanessa atalanta, or red admi- 

 rable, which I had observed in the winter flying about in 

 the woods of Alabama. I could not distinguish it from the 

 European species, yet Mr. Doubleday, the entomologist of 

 the British Museum, at once recognised all I shewed him 

 as American specimens ; for there is a minute but constant 

 difference, first pointed out by Mr. Stephens, in the mark- 

 ings of the beautifully coloured anterior wing." 



The Painted Lady (Cynthia cardid). We have observed 

 this butterfly on Gibb's HOI, near to the lighthouse, in the 

 early part of November. Mr. Hurdis also states that it is 

 common on the North-side lulls, from August to Novem- 

 ber ; and that in the year 1852 it was much more abimdant 

 than he ever remembered to have seen it before. 



The CamberweU IBeauty {Vanessa Antiopa). "We are in- 

 duced to insert this species in the list from the following obser- 

 vations of Mr. Hurdis : — "A few years ago I observed near 



