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Coniferae, at Albrighton) and D. hasalis (from heather thatch), also D, 

 obscnrella, from Deal, to the list of British Diptera. 



SOTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Early appearances. — Mr. W. Reid reports that Phujalia pedaria 

 (pilosaria) was out in the neighl)Ourhood of Pitcaple on December 27th, 

 1893. Eev. C. F. Thornewill took Hyhernia rnpicdpraria on Jan. 16th 

 and P. pedaria on Feb. Jtird, 1894, at Bakewell, and remarks that these 

 are in each case the earliest dates at which he has observed the insect. 

 Rev. J. E. Tarbat found a specimen of Pachycnemia hippocastanaria at 

 rest on a pine trunk at Weybridge on January 29th, 1894. 



Anosia archippus in Jamaica. — Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell writes me 

 from Las Cruces that this sj)ecies certainly does occur in Jamaica. He 

 also gives the following list of the known Jamaican species of Danais : — 

 D. archippus, '? D. here-nice var., D. cleophile, D. clothera, D. erippns, 

 D. (jdippns, D. jamaicensis. The commonest Danais in Jamaica, says 

 Mr. Cockerell, is D. (Tasitia) jamaicensis, which is a sub-species of 

 D. herenice and belongs to a different group from D. archippus. This 

 was probably the form which Sloan figured. — ¥. J. Buckell. 



The Burney and St. John Sales. — The thanks of everyone interested 

 in the morality and well-being of entomology are due to Mr. Tutt, for 

 what has been published lately in the EntomohMjist's Record, relative to the 

 sale of the late Rev. Hy. Burney's and other collections of Lepidoptera. 

 It appears to me, that in every case where possible, it is important to 

 hunt up records, and to contribute towards the clearing up of errors 

 and confusion, and, if there be dishonest dealing, to assist in its detection. 

 With these views, I would ask from those concerned, some explanation 

 with regard to the pair of Lycaena argiades, sold from the Rev. Sej'mour 

 St. John's collection. In the Entomologist'' s Becord, vol. v., No. 2, p. 4U, 

 I read " Then a pair of Lycaena argiades (again ' received from Dr. 

 Marsh ') produce £4 10s." Dr. Marsh's name had occcurred just before 

 in connection with " Norfolk." What, I would ask then, is the exact 

 history of this pair of L. argiades ? Is it the pair which Mr. St. John 

 recorded in the Entomologist, vol. xviii, p. 292 (1885) ? He there men- 

 tions having discovered two specimens (both males), in the collection of 

 a friend living near Frome, and that his friend told him that " he took 

 them with several others, eleven years ago, not two miles from this 

 house " (Whatley Rectory, Frome), "close by a small quarry.' W^as 

 this friend " Dr. Marsh " ? From the price paid for the " pair " (quei-y 

 (J and 5 ), it would appear that the purchaser believed them to be 

 authentic British specimens, for the price of Continental specimens is, 

 I believe, sixpence each. It is very likely that the questions I have 

 asked can be satisfactorily answered, and, if so, those concerned will no 

 doubt be much obliged for having an opportunity given them of — so 

 far— clearing up the history of a small fraction of the insects, lately 

 dispersed among British collectors. I say "so far" because the 

 authenticity of Mr. St. John's two Somerset L. argiades is still some- 

 what uncertain ; their record did not appear till eleven years after the 

 time of their capture, and their captor was only given to the world as 

 Mr. St. John's "friend." — (Rev.) 0. Pickard-Cambridge, Bloxworth 

 Rectory, Wareham. Feb. Idth, 1894. (There can be no doubt we 



