26 AUGUST 1911, Page 16

THE CAMBERWELL BEAUTY.

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—It may interest some of your readers to know that a fine specimen of the Vanessa Antiopa (Camberwell Beauty) was seen in our garden here on Sunday last. It had obviously only just emerged from its chrysalis, for it reposed lazily on a bramble under the observation of some of us, while others went in search of a net. None being forthcoming and other means of capturing it failing, we had the mortification of seeing the beautiful creature soar away out of our reach—not, however, before we were enabled to discover that it was un- doubtedly a British specimen and in magnificent condition.—