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( female ) “AD. Vernon habui, qui 
in agro Cantabrigiensi earn in renit.’’ 
In an old Newspaper after a notice 
on Fox-hunting comes one entitled 
“Butterfly hunting”. In a letter 
from Mr. Bunne to Mr. Rawlins, June 
14,, 1735 in the Bodleian Collectioiq 
be states that one Mr. Vernou followed 
a butterfly nine miles before be could 
catch him ! 
Perhaps Mr. Vernon went nine 
miles after it ? In Petivcr Gaz. 'fab 
1 . f. 7 and 8 ( female — upper and 
undersides ) “ Vernon’s Half-mourn- 
er ‘ Leucomelanos Cantabrigiensis no- 
bis.’ I know not of any that bath 
* met with this in England, but Mr 
Vernon about Cambridge, and there 
very rare.” 
In Pet : Cat. 4 and 5 English 
Butterflies. “ A. 304 Papilio Leu - 
cornelanos greenish-marked Half- 
mourner. The only one I have seen, 
Mr. Vernon caught in Cambridge- 
shire.” In another part of Petiver is 
“seen only in a wood near Hampstead 
June and July, and in 2nd vol. of 
Gaz. with Plates of male and female, 
( upper and under side ) of Pupil ; 
Brit. leones. “ This has also been 
found about Hampstead in July or 
August (1717?)” next comes, “I 
believe Dr. Abbot’s capture as men- 
tioned in the preface to Haworth’s 
Lep : Brit : 1 803 p. XXI. ‘ Since 
the body of this work was printed, 
my friend the Rev. Dr. Abbot of 
Bedford has informed me (inter alia), 
that he took in June last in White 
Wood, near Gamlingay, Cambs, the 
P. Daplidice in a faded state.’ This 
I had, a female, and gave to the Brit. 
Museum : and another I had, a male, 
at the same time out of the Doctor’s 
collection. Some persons affected to 
doubt all the above instances. In 
the body of the Lep : Britannica of 
Haworth, p. 10 Daplidice Hah. in 
Anglia Imago Apl. et Aug. rarius : 
prope Cantahi’igiam D. Vernon in 
Ray et etiam prope Hampstead. Pet. 
Donovan next mentions Scotland 
as one of its localities, as well as Bath 
from the notice in Lewin’s Work. 
Then Mr. Miller of the Bristol Insti- 
tution took one a female, in the 
Ham Meadows, Keaysham, between 
Bath and Bristol, July, 1818, which 
specimen I saw in the Bristol Institu- 
tion. The late J. E. Stephens took 
a female August 14. 1818, which is 
now in the British Museum. I had a 
very old and wasted specimen, a 
female, from old Latham of Compton 
Street, who used to buy up collections 
for sale, and this is probably one of 
the old specimens mentioned by Peti- 
ver : for as those from the Continent 
are very common it is not likely that 
this old one was brought from thence. 
Mr. Sparshall had one taken at 
Dover, in 1827. Mr. Stothard, R.A., 
had one which looked like British. 
I he late Mr. Millard had a female 
taken near Oxford, by the late Mr. 
Lansdown Guilding. Other localities 
mentioned are near Exeter — near 
Ipswich— near Brighton— Whittlesea 
Mere — near Bath — Canterbury — near 
Lyninge in Kent, and Bewdly, Wor- 
cester. See Zool p. 201, 398, 5108. 
Intelligencer, p. 178. 
