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given to me by the late Mr. Paget, of Yarmouth. The late 

 M. Becker saw these specimens the first time he paid me a 

 visit, and said they were Innotata. He promised to send me 

 German specimens, which he did soon after his return home, 

 and they appeared to agree with those captured by Mr. Paget. 

 Some years afterwards my friend, the Rev. H. Harpur Crewe, 

 bred a closely-allied species from larvae found on ash, which 

 he named Fraxinata. 1 then thought it possible that Mr. 

 Paget's insects were this species, but T still entertained a 

 suspicion that M. Becker was right, and mentioned this to 

 some of my friends, and I think to Mr. Gregson some years 

 ago. I also said that the larvae should be looked for on 

 Artemisia campestris, which grows abundantly on the sandy 

 heaths of Norfolk and Suffolk. I have bred Innotata from 

 larvae sent me, from Cannes, by M. Milliere. If Mr. Gregson 

 has known for years that this species is found in Norfolk, I 

 am rather surprised that he has withheld the information so 

 long from his friends. I am quite certain that the Eupithecia 

 which Mr. Buxton sent me was not Innotata: it was not a 

 "fine" specimen, one of the superior wings being consider- 

 ably damaged. I looked over Herrich-Schaeffer's figures of 

 Eupithecia, and it appeared to me to agree better with that 

 of Egenaria than any other species. I then sent it to my 

 friend M. Guenee, who said that as far as he could judge 

 from a single specimen it was new to him, and that he had 

 never seen Egenaria. I then sent it to Herrich-Schaeffer 

 himself, and he said it was his Egenaria, an insect of which 

 very little is known, as Dr. Staudinger doubtingly gives it as 

 a variety of Arceuthata. — Henry Dotihleday ; Epping, March 

 18, 1874. 



Argyiinis Niohe. — Mr. Doubleday has called ray attention to 

 a statement at p. 154 of the ' Entomologist's Annual' for 1874, 

 to the effect that as yet there is no evidence of the female of 

 Argynnis Niobe occurring in this country, whereas all the 

 reputed British specimens of Niobe are females : the sexes are 

 very different, and do not assimilate like the sexes of Adippe. 

 I believe all the reputed specimens of Niobe have passed 

 through my hands, some of them while still living, and 

 certainly they were females. — Edward Newman. 



Syntomis Phegea as a British Insect. — The writer of an 

 article in the 'Entomologist's Annual' for 1874, p. 155, has 



