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yet : it is, as Mr, Dale states, (Entomol. 191) " the true Davus." The 

 variety Typhon is found at Cottingham bog, near Hull. — John Hep- 

 penstall; Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, August 10, 1842. 



225. Argynnis Aphrodite. Since my former letter to you, in which 

 I incidentally remarked upon the nationality (if I may so use the term) 

 of the above, I have received the parts of Messrs. H. & W.'s work 

 containing the plate and description of Arg. Aphrodite, and I per- 

 ceive that they give rather more prominence to the black quadrate 

 marks and line on the fore wings, than the Rev. W. T. Bree has in 

 the Mag. Nat. Hist. PI. x. ; and my reason (as stated 1. c. 1840, p. 306) 

 for not considering it one of the enumerated British species was, " it 

 differed in not havmg a black border outside of the crescents : " as I 

 stood contemplating it for some time, its peculiar markings were tole- 

 rably well imprinted in my memory ; I could not have avoided taking 

 cognizance of any markings outside the crescents, although a faint 

 line might have escaped observation : when I saw Mr. Bree's figure, 

 I was struck with the extreme similarity of the hind wings to those of 

 the one I had seen ; in the fore, as well as the hinder wings, the only 

 difference being, that the crescents of the insect were fuller and more 

 definite than the figure — so far for the identification : next as to its 

 claim of being a denizen of this country, I must confess my evidence 

 is far inferior to Mr. Bree's : we are only 10 miles from the port of 

 Newport, (in a direct line it is about 8|- miles to the locality), which 

 has a considerable trade both with Canada and, the Northern States, 

 and annually imports a large quantity of timber, both in logs and 

 planks, so that there is more likelihood of its being a foreign voyager 

 here than in one of the midland counties : I have never since been 

 able to obtain a view of one, although I visited the spot in question 

 many times within a few weeks afterwards, in hopes of observing 

 another specimen. — James Bladon ; Pont-y-pool, August 29, 1842. 



JOHN VAN VOORST^ «\ wKSm&^^J PATERNOSTER ROW. 



