600 Vapilio Podalirins, a British Insect. 



Podallrius, and in June following P. Daplidice and Lathonitf." 

 I stated to Mr. Stephens that I thought I had seen P. Po- 

 dalirius in July, 1818. He said I must be mistaken ; and the 

 August immediately following (1818), he himself took both 

 Daplidice and Lathonitf. This coincidence strengthens the 

 other ; and I believe now no person will be bold enough to 

 doubt their existence in Britain, although we have no means 

 of proving the impossibility of their having been blown over 

 from the Continent in a gale of wind, &c, especially at Dover. 



Mr. Stephens gives us a figure of Colias Philodice on his 

 first plate, and erroneously calls it Europome (of which I 

 have an authentic pair from Russia) ; in which he is fol- 

 lowed by Mr. Wood and others, saying it had been taken at 

 York and Brighton ; and now it is said to have been taken in 

 the south of England, &c. I now call on any person who can 

 prove it to be British or even European, to come forward and 

 say so ; giving the dates, localities, and names of captors 

 (which to me is a most important point) ; or otherwise they 

 must excuse me for requesting an interchange of places held 

 prior by the injured P. Podalirius. Mr. Raddon has in his 

 cabinet one of this said C. Philodic^, which certainly, as far 

 as pin and setting go, looks more like English than any I have 

 seen. He tells me he received it from a Mr. Grey, and that 

 it was taken near Dudley ; whence, also, he had received 

 Deilephila lineata (the true species, and not livornica). Should 

 this meet the eye of Mr. Grey, I should be obliged if he would 

 give particulars. 



On looking over Mr. Brown's fine list of Swiss Lepi- 

 doptera, (Vol. VIII. p. 207- ), I find he gives Melitae'tf Eu- 

 phrosyntf as frequent in spring ; and, in alpine situations, in 

 July and August. I took it, in fine condition, near the Lakes 

 of Westmoreland, much later than in the south, where at the 

 time they are much wasted. The late Mr. Haworth had two 

 pale varieties taken in September, called by him Euphrasia ; 

 and I have a small variety of Selene, taken by Mr. Standish, 

 in company with Lathonk, in the autumn. The specimen I 

 had from Dr. Abbot, called Nlob^, I rather doubt being any 

 more than the pale-spotted Adippe (p. 208.) ; which the doctor 

 considered it in his MS. ; and I believe I have a true foreign 

 specimen from Mr. Children, who now occupies in the British 

 Museum the same situation held by my late friend Dr. Leach, 

 whose death I regret to see, in the paper, near Genoa, Aug. 

 24. last. — A v cis (p. 214.), in May and August. I found one 

 specimen here the end of May; but June 10., in general ; and it 

 continues on, in plentiful seasons, to the beginning of August* 

 though much worn. Lewin took it the end of August. This 

 last season I have only .taken a single specimen, but have 



