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showed me a specimen of Dinarda dentata, which he told me he had 

 taken with F. e.rsecta, this of course was a chance occurrence ; in the 

 same way I have taken Notothecta confusa with B\ rufa, when its true 

 host is Lasius fuliginosus, and ThiasopJiila awjidata with Lasius 

 fidufinosus, when its host is F. ntfa : the true hosts of D. dentata are 

 of course F. fiiKca and 1^ . sanquinea. — Horace Donisthoepe. September 

 25th, 1905. ' 



'W' A R I A T I N . 



Note on Graphiphora augur var. helvetina. — ^When Mr. Tutt was 

 writing his work on British Noctaae and their Varieties, I was able to 

 inform him that the specimens named by Dr. Knaggs, At/rotis helvetina 

 in Ent. Mo. Ma(j., vol. viii., and Ent. Annual for 1872, p. 115, had 

 been discovered by the late Dr. Mason to be aberrations of Graphiphora 

 auf/tir, and in vol. ii., p. 103 of that work, Mr. Tutt published an 

 extract of a letter I wrote to him on the subject. At the sale of Dr. 

 Mason's collection I became possessed of at least one, and probably of 

 two, of these specimens ; one of these is undoubtedly the specimen 

 taken by G. W. Taylor at Derby, in July, 1870, and described by Dr. 

 Knaggs, it was so labelled, and is the specimen I saw in George 

 Baker's collection in the year 1885, its presence in Dr. Mason's 

 collection is accounted for by the fact that he purchased Baker's 

 insects "en bloc"; it is a female. The other was also labelled 

 "Taylor, Derby," it is a male, and is probably one of the two examples 

 which Dr. Knaggs states were taken by a cousin of George Taylor, 

 though how it came into Dr. Mason's possession I cannot say. These 

 moths were of great interest to me, for they were captured by the 

 Taylors in a meadow adjoining the house of a mutual friend, and 

 many an unsuccessful attempt have I made to take a specimen there 

 myself. I was probably the only person in the sale-room who knew 

 their history, and I secured them, as " light forms of G. auf/ur," for a 

 few shillings. — W. G. Sheldon, Youlgreave, South Croydon. September 

 9th, 1905. 



Manduca ateopos in Durham. — I have much pleasure in recording 

 the capture of a fine dark male of Manduca atrojws at Birtley, Durham, 

 on September 8th, by Mr. M. Edington. It was taken under the eaves 

 of a small cabin where it was observed to fly about 9 a.m. in avoiding 

 the persistent attacks of a sparrow. When captured it squeaked 

 vigorously in its usual fashion. — J. W. H. Harrison. September 

 20th, 1905. 



:]^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Butterflies at Eupatorium cannabinum. — I must apologise for a 

 mistake I made in my note (antea, p. 244) on the additions to the list 

 of butterflies we have observed here. The plant which is so attractive 

 to butterflies is not Valeriana officinalis, but E upatoriuvi cannabinum. 

 Perhaps the following list of butterflies we have seen here at this 

 flower may be interesting : — Thijmelicus thaumas, Chrysophanus 

 phlaeas, Polyommatus icarus, Zephyrus quercus, Tliecla w-albuni, Pieris 

 brasdcae, P. rapae, P. napi, Oonepteryx rhanmi, Dryas paphia, 

 Argynnis adippe, Vanessa io, Aglais urticae, Epinephele janira, Enodia 



