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buried itself in the earth. I fed them on hop. — R. C. E,. Joedan, 105, Harborne 

 Road, Edgbaston : August 13th, 1884. 



P.S. — I am now able to announce that a fine Hadena satura apjoeared to-day 

 from the larva above described. I never before saw the insect alive, save on one 

 occasion, on a poplar tree at Heidelberg. — R. C. R. J. : June bth, 1885. 



What is the true Chrysophanus Hij^pothoe of Linneus ? — In the Fauna Suecica, 

 p. 274, Linneus first described a Chrysophanus under this name ; concerning which 

 (as with other LyccBnidcb) an unnecessary amount of fuss and confusion has been 

 made. Both in Staudinger's and in Kirby's Catalogues the Linnean species is 

 identified with C. Chryseis, a brilliantly purple-shot species with the under-surfaco 

 of its wings almost wholly of a dust-brown colour, a species which no more fits the 

 Linnean description than does the male of C. llipponoe, or any other purple-shot 

 species. 



The following is the Linnean description : — 



" Statura P. virgaurese. AIcb supra omnino fulvse immaculatse : Subtus luteo 

 cinerascentes. Primores subtus : punctis nigris iride alba : tribus majoribus intra 

 marginem exteriorem ; septem minoribus fere transversim positis ; sex minutissimis 

 ad marginem posticum. Secundarice subtus cinerascentes punctis ocellaribus circiter 

 septemdecim prseter fasciam ad marginem posticum fulvam, antice nigro-punctatam." 



Now in the above description there are certain sentences which prove it to be 

 intended for the C. rutilus of Werneburg, and not for C. Chryseis ; these are the 

 following : — 



1. "Wings above entirely fulvous;" the next word, "unspotted," will not 

 sti'ictly apply to anything but C. virgaurece, which is certainly not the Linnean 

 C. Hippothoe. 



2. "Front wings below with black spots with white iris" applies well to 

 C. dispar, and its smaller variety, C. rutilus, but not at all well to C. Chryseis, in 

 which the irides are by no means white. 



3. " Hind-wings below ash-coloured," applies only to C. dispar, and its small 

 variety. 



4. " Spots ocelloid, except the fulvous band at hind-margin, which is spotted 

 with black in front ;" this applies only to C. dispar and its small variety, for in 

 C. Chryseis there is no band, only a series of orange spots with semi-ocelloid spots 

 both in front and beliind, a character not so noticeable in C. dispar. 



I conclude, therefore, that Messrs. Staudinger, Kirby, and others are entirely 

 wrong in their identification of the Linnean species, and that our old Eritisli 

 identification, corresponding with that of Hiibner and Godart, is correct. — A. Gr. 

 Butler, British Museum : July \st, 1885. 



On the occurrence in Britain of Ornix fagivora and Nepticula Nylandriella, 

 two species probably new to our Fauna. — While collecting larvae of S. Weirana 

 on beech-trees near Cambridge last autumn, I came across three Ornix larvae, all of 

 which duly emerged this spring. Mr. Stainton informs me that they are the above 

 species, which is recognisable by the fuscous colour of the hind-margin. O. 



