4 6 P L A T E LXXXIX. 



The Fapilio Antiopa is found in every part of Europe; in Germany 

 particularly it is very common ; it is as frequent in America as in 

 Europe, and is efteemed as a rarity only in this country : it is, indeed, 

 fometimes found in abundance with us, but as its appearance is neither 

 annual nor periodical, it is generally valued by Englifh Collectors. 



There have been feveral inftances of this Infect being found 

 in different parts of the country in mild feafons, as plenty as the Pea- 

 cock, or Admirable, Butterflies; in the fummer of 1793 particularly, 

 they were as numerous in fome places as the common garden White 

 Butterfly is ufually near London. 



But as a proof that its appearance does not altogether depend on the 

 temperature of 'the weather, we need only adduce, that not a fingle 

 fpecimen has been taken this feafon, although it has been one of the 

 moft favourable for all kinds of Infects that can be recollected ; and 

 many fpecies of Moths and Butterflies,' which have not been feen for 

 feveral years before, have been taken at Combe-Wood, Darn- Wood, 

 and fimilar adjacent parts, during fummer, in plenty. 



It is from the uncertainty of its appearance that we have fuch dif- 

 ferent, and, feemingly, irreconcileable accounts of the abundance and 

 fcarcity of this Butterfly; it was certainly well known as a native of 

 this country to former Collectors, yet it received only a few years fince 

 the new name Grand Surprife ; this name, which was given by Mofes 

 Harris, or by fome of the company of Aurelians, of whofe fociety he 

 was a member, was evidently intended, as a fignificant expreffion of 

 their admiration, not of the beauty of the Infect, but of the lingular 

 circumftance of the fpecies remaining fo long in thofe very places 

 where the moft diligent refearches of preceding Collectors had been 

 made in vain ; of their unwearied induftry they were well perfuaded, 

 and were therefore unable to account for the appearance of a numerous 

 brood of large Infects, which muft have remained concealed many 

 years, or been lately tranfported to thofe places. 



Karris, in his Aurelian, calls it the Camberwell Beauty, though in 

 his lift of Englifh Butterflies Hawk-Moths, and Moths, he ufes the 

 name Grand Surprife : we mention this circumftance, as it appears 

 very inconfiftent that the new name he adopts in one work, and the 



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