126 THE entomologist's record. 



II.— By J. W. TUTT, F.E.S. 



Mr. Prout's conclusions cannot be other than most satisfactory 

 to me, proving as they do to the hilt my contention that 

 Ililbner's (lilntaria was not synonymous with our intfrjcvtaria, in the 

 face of the fact that Staudinger and all Continental and British 

 authorities were against me. It is strange, however, to find the 

 figure at last referred to Acidalia hnhm'ricata, but I have no doubt in 

 Mr, Prout's conclusion, and would here thank him for the great 

 trouble he has taken in the matter. At any rate, if this were the only 

 scientific result of my summer holiday, I should have been well 

 pleased. 



I have further no doubt that Mr. Prout's separation of the Mendel 

 Pass specimens into two groups is perfectly justified, and absolutely 

 correct, for the specimens came from two different localities ; one lot, 

 the A. InuniUata, from a steep rocky bit of ground just in front of the 

 hotel where Istayed; theother, A. (lilntaria, Hb. f holosfrirata j, from the 

 grassy slopes between the zig/ags, which are locally known as " The 

 Serpents of the Mendelstrasse." I only picked up the A. humiliata on 

 one evening, when it seemed to be abundant. The limestone formation, 

 and the general broken character of the ground, were not at all unlike 

 those oftherockycliii'satFreshAvater, where alone, at present, the species 

 has been found in England. Mr. Lemann took most of the (lilntaria 

 {/((ildsericata) that were obtained at Mendel. 



The locality for ^. (lilntaria {la thm-ricata) on the Sorapiss was on some 

 steep grassy slopes at the base of certain precipitous rocks, the slopes only 

 extending for twenty or thirty feet before being lost in the rocky bed 

 of a winter torrent, which was, however, quite dry in the summer time. 

 This sheltered bank, facing down the Val d'Ampezzo, was the home of 

 many other interesting species. As soon as we captured the first 

 specimen here, I thought of Hubner's figure, (it only shows how 

 these things haunt me !) and, in spite of the protests as to the Erebias 

 we were losing, I insisted on a second visit, so that Mr. Prout could have 

 enough material to work the matter out. 



The Re=occurrence of Xylina lambda, Fab. (zinckenii, Tr.) 

 in Britain. 



By J. W. TUTT, F.E.S. 



The capture of a fine specimen of Xijlina lambda, Fab., on Sep- 

 tember 30th last, has again raised an interest in this rare British 

 insect. Its early history as a British species was largely of an un- 

 satisfactory nature, as no entomologist of repute seems to have 

 examined the specimens, two of which came into the hands of the 

 well-known dealers, Messrs. Meek and Cooke respectively, although 

 their conclusions were supported by Dr. H. G. Knaggs. Neither 

 Messrs. Stainton, Newman, nor any of our leading lepidopterists 

 appear to have seen the insects, and hence the exhibition of a freshly- 

 caught specimen by the Rev. J. H. Hocking (the capture being made 

 on September 80th last, at Copdock, near Ipswich), at the meeting 

 of the Entomological Society of London, is in every way satisfactory. 



The history of the hitherto reputed British specimens is briefly 

 this : — 



(1) Dr. Knaggs writes {E.M.M., vol. iii., p. 168) :— " Mr. Meek has 



