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with ova; they occnrred in from ten to fifteen fathoms, in black sand, in 

 the same locality. Crangon i\llmanni and Crangon spinosus also 

 occurred. I have named it after Robert Patterson, M.R.I. A., President 

 of the Belfast Natural History Society. 



John Robert Kinahan. 



Seaview Terrace, Doiinybrook, 

 October 11, 1858. 



Occurrence of Vanessa Aniiopa in the North. — A fine specimen of the Vanessa 

 Antiopa was seen in ray garden at Blackvvell, near Darlington, the end of last month 

 (August), and a local paper mentions that one was caught not far from Guisborough, 

 about the same time. I have heard of others which have been lately captured or seen 

 in different parts of this county, as well as in Yorkshire. This butterfly is only an 

 occasional and rare visitor to our county (Durham). The ' Zoologist' for 1848 con- 

 tains a notice of a pair taken at Bishop Auckland that year, and I possess a specimen 

 which was found many years ago floating on the river Tees. While on the subject of 

 this insect I wish to correct the observation of a correspondent in the ' Zoologist' for 

 1843, that the white-bordered Antiopa is not found in Swilzerland. I have myself 

 met with both kinds, the white and yellow-bordered, in that country. Since I last 

 wrote I have received a specimen of the Vanessa Antiopa, taken on the 20th inst., in 

 my garden at Blackwell : it would be curious if it could be proved to be the same 

 that was seen there nearly a month ago. — John Church Backhouse ; Blackwell^ near 

 Darlington, September 21, 1858. 



Occurrence of Colias Edusa at Darlington. — A male of the Colias Edusa was 

 taken a few days ago at Darlington, a butterfly by no means common with us, even 

 in those seasons when it is thought most to abotmd. — Id, 



Larva of Erehia Blandina. — This year, for the first time, I have succeeded 

 in obtaining a few eggs, which hatched about fourteen days after they were deposited, 

 and the larvae are now [October] feeding freely on several species of Poa. They have 

 undergone their second moult, and may be described as pale green, with a dark green 

 or brownish stripe down the back, and two white ones, narrowly bordered by the same 

 dark colour, on each side. In the lower white stripe on each side are the spiracles. 

 The posterior extremity is attenuated and slightly furcate, as in the other larvas of the 

 family. — George Wailes, in a Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Northumberland and 

 Durham, p. 11 . 



Larva of Erehia Cassiope. — Pale green, with numerous darker green longitudinal 

 lines shaded into the ground-colour, and with a well-defined white line along each side 

 in the region of the spiracles. The larvae feed upon Poa annua and Festuca ovina, 

 though I suspect, in a state of nature, they live on the young leaves of Nardus stricta 

 or some of the smaller Junci which constitute the principal herbage of the mountain 

 sides where the insect is met with. — /</., p. 12. 



Larva of Satyrus Semele, — Duponchel states that the larva of Satyrus Semele 

 does not suspend itself afier the usual manner of the Satyridae, but excavates a little 

 hole in the ground, in which it undergoes its metamorphosis after, the manner of a 

 Noctua. Mr. Logan has verified this observation. — E. Newman. 



Polyommatus Artaxerxes and Agestis. — I think it is due to the readers of the 



