510 VARIETIES. 



5S. Insectes nuisibles d la Vigne ; par D. Salvador 

 Lopez. Madrid, 1835. 



54. Runde, Brachelytrorum Species Agri Halensis. 

 Hale, 1835. 



55. Bericht uher die Fortschritte der Entomologie im 

 Jahre, 1834, von H. Burmeister. 



Art. L. — Varieties. 



40. Sir, — In your notices of recent captures, in the last number of 

 the Magazine, Papillio Podalirius and Colias Europome again make 

 their appearance. Whether or not it is really matter of any import- 

 ance to know correctly what insects are indigenous, I shall not now 

 inquire ; but all who, from want of opportunities for more extended 

 observation, confine their notice to those of our own islands, will 

 agree with me in wishing that some care should be used to ascertain 

 which are truly British — not only as regards the species generally, 

 but as to specimens also — by which our knowledge of doubtful species 

 must be governed. A censure passed on all dealers, would be not 

 merely illiberal, but unjust to many honest and worthy individuals : 

 but the interest which the present widely diffused taste for Entomo- 

 logy has excited, has certainly roused the cupidity of some who 

 make a profit by imposing on the credulity of collectors ; and 

 prudence might suggest that their declarations should be received 

 with the same kind of reverence as those of horse-dealers. That 

 Podalirius has been taken in England seems now well established, 

 and it would be difficult to prove that those said to have been taken 

 last season in the New Forest were not so ; but it would be satis- 

 factory to have better authority than a nameless dealer. 



At page 530, Vol. I. of the Magazine, we see that " Colias 

 Europome has been noticed in the meadows, near the confluence of 

 the Avon and Severn, flying with great swiftness in August ; but is 

 a rare insect near Worcester." Also, " C. Chrysotheme, rare near 

 Worcester, in the cabinet of Mr. A. Edmonds." In your last number, 

 Mr. Newman, (taking no notice of the reputed Chrysotheme,) says a 

 pair of Europome are in the possession of Mr. Edmonds, of Wor- 

 cester. The gentleman by whom Europome was first recorded as 

 above, as being known at Worcester, has since said that his autho- 

 rity for inserting it in his list, was, the having, in 1820, seen '* a 

 brood" of them, "flying with very great swiftness," near Tewkesbury. 

 Of the pair now in Mr. Edmonds's collection I know nothing — but 

 I know of four or five other pairs of it, which are, or were lately, in 



