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In North-eastern Asia (Siberia, China, Japan, etc.) several Tentlire-- 

 delta spp. occur, which, much more than any European forms, re- 

 .semhh Jlavlvenfris in the coloration of their bodies and also of their 

 wuigs. But, in spite of its almost exotic appearance, the present 

 insect is no rarity in Central Europe. I have found it abundant 

 {e.g.) in Thuringia, and it occurs, according to Thomson, in Scandinavia. 

 Its special food-plant is said to be Aegojpodium 'podagraria — a common 

 and troublesome weed in many parts of England — so that a priori it 

 seems rather to be expected than otherwise that it should occur and even 

 be common in more British locahties than the only one where it is as 

 yet positively known to have occurred. 



Brunswick, Woking. 



May Uth, 1919. 



The Dollman Collection. — In the obituary notice of Hereward C. Dollmau 

 issued ill the present No. of this Magazine, it is stated that his Rhodesian and 

 British collections of Insects had been presented by his father to the Natural 

 History Museum at S. Kensington. The Rhodesian Lepidoptera and Coleo- 

 ptera are particularly valuable, and it is the first time that such an extensive 

 series of beetles has been obtained from that part of Africa. Dr. Neave, it is 

 true, had previously made large collections of the more conspicuous Coleoptera 

 in the same region, but the smaller forms are not to be found amongst his 

 insects. All that can be said at present is, that the Longicornia, Carubidae, 

 Staphylinidae, Tenebrionidae, Btiprestidae. Phytophaga, and Curculionidae are 

 particularly well represented in the Dollman Collection, and there must be 

 niiiuy new species amongst them, particularly in the Staphylinidae.* The 

 Ileterocera include numerous interesting forms — bred series of various 

 Saturniidae, with beautifully drawn illustrations of the larvae, etc., at least 

 one new Sphingid, and doubtless many of the 668 species recorded by 

 Sir George Hampson as having been taken by Dr. Neave during his two 

 j.ourueys in "Northern Rhodesia and the adjacent Territories" (V, Z. S. 1910, 

 i, pp. 388-510, pis. xxxvi-xli). The Lepidoptera, it may be observed, were all 

 taken or bred by Dollman during his second -stay in N.W. Rhodesia, when he was- 

 in a very bad state of health, as a result of the Tsetse-fly attacks, the Coleoptera 

 having been captured during the years 1913-1915, on his first sojourn in- 

 tlie coimtry. We are indebted to Mr. N. D. Riley, of the Entomological 

 Department of the British Museum, for the following particulars as to the- 

 Rhopalocera : — 



The Dollman Collection of Butterflies includes about 800 species, repre- 

 sented by 3500 specimens, all in perfect condition, some 60 per cent, being bred 

 specimens, all from N.W. Rhodesia. It is chiefly valuable on account of their 

 excellent condition and of the amount of data concerning their life-histories. 

 A MS. volume accompanying the Collection gives full data of times of 



* Several of these are described by Cameron iu the " Entomologiijfs Record" for May, I'jiy.. 



