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the bidding for eight Aventia flcxula, one Zanclognatlia emortualis, and 

 several other good species, only rose to 6/-. Two examples of Boletohia 

 fuUginaria, included in lot 220, only fetched C/- ; whereas lot 221, in 

 which were two other specimens, made 22/-. The fourth and con- 

 cluding section of this Report, dealing with the Geometrre and 

 Pyralides, will appear in the March 'Entomologist.' — Eichakd South; 

 12, Abbey Gardens, St. John's Wood, N.W. 



Autumnal Emergence and Variation of Argynnis paphia. — During 

 the past autumn I succeeded in rearing a second emergence of .4. 

 IMphia (Entom. xxvi. p. 320). When I exhibited the specimens at a 

 recent meeting of the South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society, Mr. Tutt stated that he had lately seen examples of a second 

 brood of A. paphia in the collection of Mr. J. A. Clark, who had obtained 

 them from the New Forest during the autumn. Again, at a meeting 

 of the above-named Society held on Oct. 12th last, Mr. J. H. Carpenter 

 exhibited a very fine series of white-spotted forms of A. paphia, num- 

 bering some three dozen specimens ; Mr. Tutt then alluded to Mr. 

 Clark's "remarkably fine series" of white-spotted forms, stating that 

 many of them had patches of the green colouring of the var. valesina 

 represented in both sexes. As I had never observed any trace of the 

 green hue of valesina in the white-spotted males, although frequent in 

 the white-spotted females, and as I was not aware of a second brood of 

 A. paphia having occurred in a state of nature, I thought it desirable 

 to communicate with Mr. Clark on the subject. In his reply to me 

 that gentleman writes, " My specimens are not the second brood ; they 

 were taken in the months of June and July." As he kindly invited me 

 to examine the white-spotted forms in his collection referred to by 

 Mr. Tutt, I recently availed myself of the opportunity, accompanied 

 by Mr. Carpenter. We were somewhat surprised to find that the 

 " remarkably fine series " in question consisted of only eight speci- 

 mens, six males and two females, and upon careful examination we 

 were quite unable to detect the slightest trace of any green colouring 

 in any of the males, although it was present in both the females. In 

 the December No. of the 'Record' (vol. iv. p. 331) Mr. Tutt, in his 

 notes upon A. papihia, says, " However, a most remarkable series of 

 such specimens was this year got together by Mr. J. A. Clark." . . . 

 " This year Mr. Clark has a number of specimens in which these pale 

 spots are very conspicuous, but the most interesting point in connec- 

 tion with these is that some of the specimens have a large area round 

 these spots distinctly of the valesina colour, shading off into the 

 normal coloration round the outer margin of the wing. Still more 

 strange is the fact that this is not entirely conjined to the female specimens, 

 valesina being distinctly a female aberration." (The italics are mine.) 

 What is Mr. Tutt's reason for making such erroneous assertions, both as 

 regards the second broods and the variation in colour, for which he 

 has apparently no foundation ? So far as can be ascertained, no sign 

 of a second emergence of A. paphia has occurred in the New Forest 

 during the past autumn.— F. W. Frohawk; January, 1894. 



