THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
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OBSERVATIONS. 
Lemdoptera 
Swimming insects . — With regard to 
your observations on insects swimming, 
I may mention a circumstance which 
came under my observation three or 
four years ago. When walking on 
the sands at Whitby, close to the 
water’s edge, while the tide was re- 
ceding, I passed a butterfly lying on 
the sand. After I had passed it, I 
thought I would turn round, and take 
a second look at it, and to my sur- 
prise I found it to be Vanessa Antiopa 
alive washed up by the sea. I took 
it up, and put it on my hand to dry, 
when it recovered a good deal of its 
liveliness. I took it to my lodgings 
and boxed it, and brought it here the 
next day, when it was still lively. 
It is now in my cabinet, though, of 
course, much damaged by its ducking. 
There is no doubt but that it had been 
blown from the shore, and how long 
it had been in the water, nobody can 
tell. 
Why should not insects from France 
fly a part of the way and be washed 
up on our shores, and, after having 
recovered themselves crawl up some 
cliff, and deposit eggs? — Rev. Geo. 
Rudston Read, Rectory, Sutton-on- 
Dervjent, York. Oct. 11 th, 1862. 
Sugaring . — In compliance with 
your invitation for observations as to 
the best nights for sugaring I venture 
to send you mine, and will name more 
particularly two nights, Friday and 
Saturday the 10th and 11th instant. 
The former had been a sultry hot 
day and evening, was rather foggy 
with a clear sky, and by no means a 
good evening. About 10 p. m. it 
began to rain and continued during 
the night. On Saturday the wind 
changed from S. E. to S. W., the 
afternoon and evening being generally 
cloudy. This proved a very favorable 
evening for moths at sugar, and on 
other occasions when rain has fallen, 
the evening following has seldom 
failed. As a rule I find soon after 
dusk the best time to commence. I 
have taken, at sugar, six specimens 
of C. Xerampelina during the last 
three or four weeks, — one of them on 
the Saturday named. The above ob- 
servations have been made during, 
and have reference to, the continuous 
dry weather we have had lately. — 
Edward Cooper, Bird Place, Henley- 
on-Tliames. Oct. 11 th, 1862. 
P. Baplidicc . — As some Entomolo- 
gists do not seem inclined to admit as 
British Natives many of our rarer 
Insects, perhaps the authorities below 
alluded to may help to clear the way 
for their admission. 
Papilio Daplidice . — Was first noti- 
ced as British by Ray and Petiver, 
but rejected by Dr. Leach and Ste- 
phens, until he ( Stephens ) took it 
himself. Ray ( 1710 ) mentions it as 
“ Papilio Leucomelanos subtus viride- 
scens marmoreus, The Greenish mar- 
lied Half Mourner.” 
It is noticed by Petiver 304, 305 
and 306 as Pap. Leucomelanos Canta- 
Irigiensis. Pet. Gaz. Tab. 1. fig 7 
