22 E?ttomological Notes. 



summit of Snowdon, in Wales, in the beginning of July, 



1 828 ; and it has been again found there this season, by 



Fox, Esq. : thereby confirming it as a British insect, as men- 

 tioned by Donovan {Br, Ins,, pi. 115.), where it is said to have 

 been " taken on a mountain in Wales, by the Rev. H. Davies 

 of Beaumaris, and also by Mr. Hudson," whose authority has 

 been lately more than suspected ; because the species (or one 

 very similar) has been imported in cork, one of which I re- 

 ceived from the late Mr. Miller of Bristol, it is of a duller 

 colour, and more round in its form. Geometra trepidaria (of 

 Haw,) has lately been said to be the same insect as ^ombyx 

 Sabinz, which was found in Melville Island by Capt. Parry ; 

 but Mr. Kirby, in the appendix to Parryh Voyage, says, 

 " Antennae of the male setaceous, bipectinate at the base, with 

 short rays ,-'* from which I suspected the specimen of trepidaria 

 I took on Schichalion must be a female, although the form of 

 the abdomen seemed to point it out as a male. I have since 

 been favoured with a sight of Mr. Haworth's specimen, taken 

 by Professor Hooker at the same place, and, it is decidedly a 

 female ; and mine is decidedly a male, and the antennae not 

 bipectinate at all. B, Sabin? (which Mr. Kirby once showed 

 me) must, therefore, be distinct. 



When at the Edinburgh museum I was shown a Papilio 

 MelitaeV, somewhat allied to Selena (qu. Tulli« ?) but duller ; 

 an Anarta, larger than myrtilli, with under wings white ; a 

 J56mbyx, allied to dispar, and another to fascelma, with the 

 exuviae of their larvae and pupae ; also Tipulae, Muscae, &c., 

 all from Melville Island, taken and presented by Mr. Fisher. 

 I mention this, as Mr. Kirby states that only six species, viz. 

 J56mbyx Sabin/, a caterpillar of the genus Laria (probably 

 allied to fascelina), J56mbus arcticus, Ctenophora Parrn, Chi- 

 ronomus polaris, and ^ranea melvillensis, were found in 

 Winter Harbour. I have since received a specimen of the 

 Laria from that place, and also a MelitaeV, which I think the 

 same species, from the late Mr. Miller of Bristol, who writes 

 " from Whale Island, Captain Parry." I saw at the Edin* 

 burgh museum also a pair of Penthophera detrita (?) and a pair 

 of M5rio (?) (or some near allies) set in "English fashion," but 

 I could not learn their localities or history. In Parry's voy- 

 age to the North Pole, two of A^phis borealis Curtis were 

 taken on the ice, lat. 82° 26' 44'^, and long. 20° 32' 13'^ E., 

 July 16. 1827, 100 miles from the nearest known land, one of 

 which I saw in the collection of Mr. Curtis. 



On my way home from Scotland, I visited the museums at 

 Keswick (two), Kendal, Liverpool, and Manchester (two), 

 where I saw three specimens of Hesperia Oileus of Ent, Trans,, 

 in fine condition, and set in the " English fashion," bought by 



