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is difficult to give a decided opinion. The author states — "Found by 

 Mr. Weaver several times near Birminglianij and also near Alderly in 

 Cheshire by .Mr, Stanley." Without suspecting the least disposition 

 on the part of these gentlemen to mislead, there seems to me a possi- 

 bility of a mistake through the unintentional niixing of British and 

 foreign specimens. It is an enquiry of great interest, and the species 

 should neither be received nor rejected without abundant eAddence. 



Fig. 8 — 12. Melitcea Euphrosyne; un questionably British. In both 

 Mel. Selene and Mel. Euphrosyne the author falls into the old error 

 of stating them to be double-brooded. 



Fig. 13. Melitcea tessellataf supposed to be Mel. Athalia: the figure 

 is copied from Petiver. 



PI. XI. fig. 1 — 3. Argynnis Adippe ; unquestionably British, 



Fig, 4 — 7. Argynnis Latlionia; unquestionably British. 



Pi. X. fig. 1 — 5. Argynnis Paphia ; unquestionably British. 



Fig. 6- -10. Argynnis Aglaia ; unquestionably Britiish. 



PI. XII. fig. 1, 2. Argynnis Charlotta is a variety of Arg. Aglaia. '■ 



Fig. 3. A variety of Arg. Paphia. o:ls'ih-. 



Fig 4,5. Argynnis Aphrodite. A species confined to N. America. 



PI, XIII. fig. 1 — 4. Vanessa C-alhum ; unquestionably British. It 

 may be remarked that this genus has been most .judiciously divided 

 by Hubner into three sections, or, as he terms them, genera, as under ; 

 Polygonia C-album ; Eugonia Polychloros, Urtica?, lo and Antiopa ; 

 and Pyrameis Atalanta : these names ought to have been adopted. 

 The interesting fact of this insect, once so common round London, 

 having entirely deserted the neighbourhood, should not have been 

 omitted : it is most abundant in Herefordshire and Worcestershire. 



Fig. 5: — 8. Vanessa Polychloros ; unquestionably British. 



Fig. 9 — 13. Vanessa Ur tic (B ; unquestionably British. A very re- 

 markable variety is figured, vui^xvlv v,n\'ju\iv 



PI. XIV. fig. 1 — 4, Vanessa lo ; unquestionably British. 



Fig, 5, 6. Vanessa Antiopa ; unquestionably British, It may how- 

 ever be. observed that the majority of specimens in our cabinets are 

 German or North American, the introduction of which is always to be 

 regretted, more pen'ticularly in the case of the North American speci- 

 mens, as doubts exist as to the identity of N. American with Europe- 

 an species. 



Fig, 7. Cynthia Hampsteadiensis ; this is a nonentity. 



PI. XV. fig. 1 — 4. Vanessa Atalanta ; unquestionably British. 



Fig. 5, 6. Vanessa Huntera ; exclusively North American, 



Fig, 7 — 10, Cynthia Cardui ; unquestionably British. I may here 



