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side near the tail ; and that those specimens wanting it (like the 

 example here recorded) form the variety L. coretas, Ochs. 

 Bloxworth Rectory, Wareham, Sept. 7, 1885. 



PS. — Since correcting the proof of the above I have 

 ascertained, beyond a doubt, that an example of Lyccsna 

 argiades was also taken near Bournemouth, on the 2lst of 

 August this year, by Mr. Philip Tudor. This specimen was 

 named, but doubtfully, for him by Mr. MacRae, of Bournemouth, 

 as a worn example of L. bcetica ; but on my yesterday showing 

 Mr. MacRae (who first informed me of the above capture) the 

 description of L. argiades, here given, with the woodcut figure 

 above, he at once admitted that Mr. Tudor's specimen was not 

 L. bcetica, but L. argiades ; and' a letter received last night from 

 my eldest son (wlio is a fellow-pupil of Mr. Tudor's, at Forest 

 School, Walthamstow) informs me that he had just seen a 

 specimen of L. argiades in the collection of Mr. Tudor, taken at 

 Bournemouth in August, and thought by Mr. Tudor to be 

 L. bcetica, but which was identical with our specimens of 

 L. argiades. The Bournemouth locality is fourteen miles from 

 that of our captures. I have given the above with perhaps 

 unnecessary particularity ; but I think the records of additions 

 to our British Fauna cannot be too particular or too accurate. — 

 0. P. C; September 16, 1885. 



[Dr. Lang, in his ' Butterflies of Europe,' from which the 

 above figures are reproduced, says: — "From May to the end of 

 August in Central and Southern Europe (except Britain and 

 Spain), North Western Asia, and South of Siberia, and the 

 Amur. It frequents meadows, and is generally a common insect. 

 There are two or three broods in a year ; the individuals of the 

 spring brood are smaller than those which appear later in the 

 season. Larva feeds on trefoil and other Leguminosae." Mr. W. 

 F. de Visines Kane, in his new ' Handbook of European 

 Butterflies,' also gives "May to August, according to latitude, 

 with successive broods in the south." Lyccena argiades will be 

 placed in our collections between L. bcetica and L. cegon. — Eu] 



