THE CAMBERWELL BEAUTY. JJ 



Forest in April, and one in South Devon in August. Single 

 specimens were noted in Oxfordshire, Lincolnshire, Berwick, 

 and the Isle of Skye, in September, 1896, and one at Epsom 

 in December of that year. In 1897 one was recorded from 

 Yorks (August), and one from Norfolk (September) ; and in 

 May, 1898, one was taken at Norwich. One or two were 

 observed in August or September, 1898 and 1899 ; and in 1900 

 there seems to have been an invasion, on a small scale, of this 

 butterfly in August into some of the eastern and southern 

 counties of England. It extended westward to Somersetshire, 

 and northward to Roxburghshire. A few were taken in various 

 southern localities, including south-east and north London, in 

 August and September of 1901. A specimen occurred in the 

 Isle of Wight in September, 1903, and one in September, 

 1904 ; and in the latter year one was captured in August at 

 Raynes Park in Surrey. In 1905 one butterfly was taken at 

 Harrow, Middlesex, on July 27 ; one at Norwich on August 26 3 

 and one in Suffolk on September 29. 



A full record of this fine butterfly in the British Islands would 

 occupy too much space, but the details given above will show 

 something of its erratic occurrence since 1880. It visits Ireland 

 occasionally, but there are no recent reports of its having been 

 seen there. 



Kane, in his Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Ireland, 

 mentions a specimen taken in Co. Kerry, July 21, 1865 j one 

 from near Belfast [in 1875 ?] ; an d a third example seen by a 

 friend " many years ago " near Trillick, Co. Tyrone. The 

 latter was " settled on the roadside, but not captured, it being 

 Sunday. 5 ' 



Distributed throughout the temperate parts of the Northern 

 Hemisphere, it is common in the Scandinavian Peninsula, 

 whence probably our specimens came ; also in Germany. In 

 some parts of the Continent it is, however, almost as uncertain 

 in its occurrence as in England. 



