222 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



LYC^NID^ IN NORTH KENT. 

 By E. Sabine. 



Permit me to offer a few remarks in reference to some of the 

 statements in Mr. Tutt's note (Entom. 207). I have nowhere 

 stated tliat I found my pale Lyccena. varieties " widely " dis- 

 tributed. I said " more" distributed; implying that whereas all 

 the 1886 examples were taken within the space of a couple of 

 acres (Entom. xix. 176), those captured this spring were found 

 over a larger but by no means extensive area. 



Whether they are identical with icarus-colouved hellargus 

 Mr. Tutt mentioned I of course cannot say, not having seen 

 such ; nor do I think he has had sight of mine (otherwise he 

 would surely have had something to say about them at the 

 only time I have exhibited them), but mine differ on the upper 

 surface quite as much from any hellargus I have ever seen as 

 they do from icarus ; on the underside (which in all the 

 specimens presents a sort of washed-out appearance) the males 

 have the markings of the former, but the females are most like 

 specimens of the latter. 



I still adhere to the hybrid theory, and if this be the correct 

 one, it is simply absurd for Mr. Tutt to say that these varieties 

 " fly only with the species of one parent (in this case hella7'gus "). 

 Is he not aware that icarus occurs freely with both broods of 

 hellargus ? Indeed, last June we found one quite as numerous 

 as the other. 



As to the contemporaneity of corydon and hellargus, I should 

 never have entered upon the subject at all (believing my ex- 

 periences to be common property amongst entomologists) had it 

 not been for the grave doubts cast on my statement, that I had 

 taken these two species in cojmld, by gentlemen " of much 

 experience." 



My argument is simply this ; that early specimens of the 

 second brood of hellargus are to be found amongst the corydon in 

 August, and late individuals of the latter occur when the former 

 is abundant in September. Without neglecting Lepidoptera 

 generally, I have yet devoted much time for years past to the 

 Diurni, and profitably too, I think ; and have been out and about 

 every year, the whole season long, accompanied by one or other 



