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and to Malta and back in October, but I do not think this would affect 
them.—GervasE F. MATHEW ; Lee House, Dovercourt, Nov. 17, 1891. 
HEspPeRIA Lingcota AT Harwica.—In July, 1886, I took several 
specimens of, as I thought, H. thawmas in this neighbourhood, and at the 
time felt rather puzzled about them as most of them were smaller and 
much darker than the thawmas I had been accustomed to take in Devon- 
shire, and with which I compared them, as also with some lineola I had 
purchased from a dealer, and they did not agree satisfactorily with either. 
I then put them aside as a probable East country variety of thaumas, and 
did not think anything more about them until the beginning of last year, 
when I saw Mr. Hawes’ account of H. lineola as an addition to the list of 
British butterflies (Entom. xxiii. 3). I then remembered my 1886 captures, 
and examined them again with my series of thauwmas and the butterflies I 
had purchased from a dealer as lineola, and which, as far as I could see, 
did not differ in any way from my thawmas, and again I could make nothing 
of them. Unfortunately I was then very busy, and had no time to read up 
descriptions, and so the butterflies were put away. Last July I took several 
more of these small dark Hesperids, and bred one from a pupa, which I found _ 
Spun up between some blades of coarse grass. Well, a few days ago, I was 
transferring some of this year’s captures from a store-box to my cabinets, 
when I came to these butterflies, and, as they were very fine and very fresh, 
I proceeded to replace some of my old ones, but directly I saw them along- 
side of my Devon thawmas I was again struck with the evident difference 
between them, and noticed that these specimens were exactly the same in 
appearance as those captured in July, 1886. I then determined to go 
carefully into the matter, and so placed all the small dark-coloured Harwich 
butterflies in a row, and the Devon ones beside them, together with the 
so-called lineola from the dealer, and then there seemed to be no mistake 
whatever that the Harwich species were abundantly distinct from the 
others; so then I got several books, and read up descriptions, and looked 
at figures, and satisfied myself that they were without doubt lineola, and 
that my purchased types of lineola were only thaumas. If I had been 
supplied with true lineola I should have made this discovery in 1886, though 
of course it is to a great extent my own fault that I did not, for if I had 
carefully read the various descriptions I could not have failed to have 
determined what I had captured. However, the only figures I had to 
refer to were rather misleading. Praun gives hardly any black streak to 
his male of thawmas, and the black margins of both species are figured 
about the same breadth, and the neuration of thawmas is shown as more 
distinct than in lineola, whereas the opposite is the case. In Lang’s 
figure the colour is much too light, and the black margins to the wings 
are not broad enough, and the inner edge is too well defined instead of 
being gradually “shaded off into the ground colour,” as Kane so well 
describes it. All my specimens are decidedly smaller than thaumas, and 
the males have the black streak on the fore wings very indistinct. I am 
glad that I was so fortunate as to breed a specimen this year, and hope, 
should I be here at the end of next June or beginning of July, that I may 
find the larve.—GerrvasE F. Matuew; Lee House, Dovercourt, Nov. 
17, 1891. 
New Forest Notes.—From the 18th of July until the end of the 
month I found the collecting in Brockenhurst district better than I had 
ENTOM.—JAN. 1892. Cc 
