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Cleathorpes, for years past. Why Yorkshire has claitoed a monopoly of 

 it I do not know. An old uncle of mine, the Rev. J. Mossop, of Coven- 

 ham Rectory, Louth, used to breed it from the Theddlethorpe and Mable- 

 thorpe part of the coast. He had considerable correspondence with 

 Curtis, through the older Dale, about the form, and I think insects 

 passed as well as letters. Mr. Mossop died about 1870, and his widow 

 gave me some of the letters, but I cannot find them now. In any case 

 I have some of the moths. One of them, a female, is as nearly as 

 possible like that figured in the Eutom. (vii. 16^, 1874); another, a 

 male, resembles the figure in Humphrey and Westwood (plate 18) after 

 allowing for bad drawing ; a third is about equal to the figure in the 

 Eutom. (xxvi. 257), var. deschangei. Curtis's figure I have not seen, 

 but it would not surprise me if it were drawn from one of my old 

 uncle's specimens." 



Mr. C. W. Dale, too, gives me some additional information 

 on these captures of the Kev. Mr. J. Mossop, and, writing me on 

 March 3rd, be says, " My father, the late James Charles Dale, 

 bad three specimens of Mr. Mossop's radiata (instead of one 

 that I mentioned, ante, p. 97)," and also states "that the Kev. J. 

 Mossop's insects were bred from larvae that he fomid at Saltfleet, 

 feeding on elder, in August, 1836, and bred in June, 1837." 



This evidence most conclusively substantiates the fact of 

 Lincolnshire producing the form radiata. The following extract 

 from a letter from Mr. W. Hewett, of York, on the Driffield 

 specimens, is important. I bad written him to ask if the 

 Driffield specimens be bad seen were the same as the one figured 

 from Mr. Dawson in the 'Entomologist' (vii. 169, 1874), and if 

 caught or bred ? He replies as follow^s : — 



" The three Driffield specimens I referred to in my letter to Mr. 

 Porritt are identical in form with the one figured in the 1874 Entom., but 

 that figure was not drawn from either of those examples. I have not the 

 slightest hesitation in saying they are cfenuine, as I know the party well. 

 They are captured specimens, 7iot bred. I do not think the owner ever 

 made an exchange in his life. The specimens are set on common 

 household pins " (W. H.). 



Thus all the English specimens of radiata are, so far as I can 

 find, reported either from Yorkshire or Lincolnshire, whilst most 

 of the notices of var. walkeri, Curt., are from Scotland. 



Heligoland is generally spoken of as the home of zatiina ; 

 but at any rate it is clearly proved that, for the past fifty years, 

 this grand form, too, has occurred in both Yorkshire and 

 Lincolnshire. 



Greenwich. 



