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seasons, as plentifully as the Peacock or Admirable 
Butterflies ; in the summer of 1793, in particular, 
they were in some places as numerous as the com- 
mon White Butterfly. 
But, as a proof that its appearance does not alto- 
gether depend upon the temperature of the weather, 
there have been many of our hottest seasons, which 
are most favourable to the propagation of all kinds 
of insects, in which not a single specimen of the 
Camberwell Beauty was to be met with. 
It is from the uncertainty of the appearance of 
this Papilio, that we have such varied accounts of its 
scarcity and abundance. It must have been long 
known to the British lepidopterist ; yet it received 
the name of Grand Surprise from Harris, or some of 
the Company of Aurelians, of whose society he was 
a member. This name was evidently intended as a 
significant expression of their admiration, not of the 
beauty of the insect, but of the singular circumstance 
of the species remaining so long in those very places 
where the most diligent researches of preceding col- 
lectors had been made in vain. Of their unwearied 
industry they were well persuaded; and were, there- 
fore, unable to account for the appearance of a 
numerous brood of large insects, which must have 
remained concealed many years, or been lately 
transported to those places. 
Harris, in his Awrelian, calls it the Camberwell 
Beauty ; and, in his list of English Butterflies, 
