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flies. Hipparchia JEghna, Polyommatus Argiolus, Pontic 

 br^ssicae, rapae, napi, and cardamines, which appear in April, 

 and some of them occasionally earlier, all assume the winged 

 state in spring. But, with the single exception of Gonepteryx 

 rhamni, the Vaness<^are the^r^^ butterflies that present them- 

 selves in the season. Colias Ediisa is said to hybernate (see 

 Lepidoptera Britannica) ; and I think it highly probable, as 

 well for other reasons as from having taken it in a perfectly 

 fresh state so late as the 1st of October. But the species is 

 so rarely met with in this part of the country, that I cannot 

 speak, from my own experience, to its vernal appearances. 



Mr. Brown would be conferring a favour on myself, and, 

 perhaps, on some other of your readers, if, through the me- 

 dium of your Magazine, he would give a list of the papilios 

 of Switzerland ; noting the times and places of their appear- 

 ance, and their comparative scarcity or abundance. It hap- 

 pens, I believe, with insects, as with plants, that some of the 

 European species are less known in this country than those 

 of South America, the West and East Indies, China, the 

 Cape, &c. — ^. T. Bree, Allesley Rectory^ May 12. 1834-. 



[The conductors of botanic gardens on the continent of 

 Europe, in the interchange which they practise with the con- 

 ductors of botanic gardens, &c., in Britain, say, in effect, 

 " Accept from us seeds of the plants of Europe : return to 

 us seeds of plants of the two Indies, the Cape of Good Hope, 

 Australia, and South America, &c. ; for your easy acqui- 

 sition of these, by means of your extended facilities, renders 

 it more practicable for us to obtain them intermediately 

 through you, than immediately from the native countries." 

 This state of things is in accordance with Mr. Bree's view.] 



Maldchius bipunctdtus Babington is a disti7ict Species, 

 (p. 378.) — Messrs. Babington and Westwood have given, 

 in p. 378., figures, &c., of Scolytus ae^neus Pz, !, Malachius 

 rw^collis Pz., and M. bipunctatus Bab. $ and $ ? for which 

 I am much obliged, as other entomologists probably are, as 

 they tend to remove all doubts on the subject. From the 

 figures 49. b and r, they certainly appear distinct from ^; 

 although Mr. Stephens (who multiplies species on less cha- 

 racters than these) does not consider it so in the last edition 

 of his Guide, genus 280. sp. 10., by putting bipunctatus Bab. 

 between brackets. The reference made by me, in MS. to 

 Panzer, was copied from Stephens's Catalogue, viz., f. 2. pi. 8.* ; 

 which is merely changed by [J. D., he] thinking f. meant fig. 



* And in Panzer's Index Systemdticus to his Faunce Ins, Germ, Initia, 

 in p. 9'> under Malachius, is 7. rz(/?c611is ii. 8. (not 10.) 



