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says : — " 1 have in my collection New Forest specimens of that variety 

 and also one which I took near Totnes, but none of them have the white 

 colour so distinct as in his specimen." Mr. Mason, of Clevedon, 

 writes : — " I take var. conversaria similar to Mr. Vivian's specimens in 

 this locality, in fact I bred a nice series last summer from larvag 

 collected in the early spring, the average proportion of conversaria 

 being about one in twenty-. I believe those larva^ which were fed 

 exclusively on ivy produced the largest percentage. At the same time 

 I bred two specimens much darker than the ordinary type form, and 

 very similar to examples received from the Raunoch district." Mr. 

 Sydney Webb writes :— "The concersaria from the West always seem 

 to be of a purer white and black than those from other places, tlie dark 

 hind margin of one of Mr. Vivian's specimens makes it in particular a 

 lovely example." — J. W. Tutt, Westcombe Hill. January 31sf, 1894. 



SOiME KEMAKIvS HAVING SPECIAL REFERENCE TO VARIETIES OF ArGYNNIS 



I'APHiA. — Mr. Frohawk occasionally delights in running his head against 

 a brick wall, although unfortunately the operation does not seem to 

 hurt him ; tliis time he has run amuck at an off-hand statement of mine 

 concerning Ar(j>innis paphia. From the warmth lie exhibits, one would 

 think that he alone has any personal interest in A. paplda, and that no one 

 Itul himself and Mr. ('arpenter ought to have any of its varieties. 

 Taking the matters at issue seriatim let us see what they amount to : — 

 (1). Mr. Frohawk states that at a meeting of the South London 

 Entomological Society on October 12th, " Mr. J. H. Carpenter exhibited 

 a very fine series of white-spotted forms of A. paphia. numbering some 

 three dozen specimens ; Mr. Tutt then alluded to Mr. Clark's ' remark- 

 ably fine series ' of white-spotted forms, stating that many of them 

 had patches of the green colouring of tlie var. calesina rej^resented in 

 both sexes " (Entom., p. 69). I find on turning to the South London 

 Entom. Society's report for October 12th, that I am reported by Mr. 

 Williams as follows : — " Mr. Tutt remarked that this pale-spotted form 

 was frecpiently tinted Avith green as in var. valezina, more especially the 

 females " (Record, iv., p. 3Uo). Turning to the original report of the City 

 of London Entomological Society's meeting, at which the exhibition was 

 made, Mr. Battley's report reads : — "Mr. Clark exhibited . . . Aryi/nnis 

 paphia witli its var. valezina and intermediate forms. With regard to 

 tlie vars. of .4. paphia, Mr. Tutt remarked that several of the males 

 were distinctly green on certain portions of the hind wings, and that 

 frequently these specimens were those which developed j^ale spots both 

 on the fore and hind wings, thus showing a double tendency towards 

 var. calezina, the area around the pale spot being the first to become 

 green " (Eut. Becord, iv., p. 259). These remarks were made with a very 

 long series of Argijnnis pajjhia before me, occupying one side (at least) of 

 a very large store box and I believe a part of the other side ; they were 

 hona fide conclusions drawn from the specimens before my eyes when 

 being exhibited at a full meeting of the Society, and can be vouched 

 for l)y every lepidojjterist in the room ; and because Mr. Chirk has been 

 kind enough to show Mr. Frohawk eight specimens, six males and two 

 females, and these did not happen to show the particular phase of varia- 

 tion to which I carefully and at length drew attention at the meeting, 

 Mr. Frohawk wants to know wliat reason I have for making " such an 

 erroneous assertion " as he styles it. He is entirely at fault. Mr. 

 Clark exhibited a long series of such forms and of the accuracy of my 



