286 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



[The question of my valued correspondent is to the point : 

 — " Does Antiopa ever emerge from the pupa with a white 

 border?" Many of my correspondents on the Continent — 

 and surely M. Gnenee with regard to France, Mr. Riley with 

 regard to the United Slates, and so on with other countries — 

 could at any time settle the question. Impressions are worth 

 but little, but, from the inspection of a large number of speci- 

 mens captured in diflferent parts of Switzerland, my impression 

 is that Swiss specimens have white borders, even when they 

 emerge from the pupa. The "blown-over theory" I must 

 leave for the present. I am looking forward to the republi- 

 cation in the 'Zoologist' of the paper on the "Advent of 

 Antiopa," which appeared some months back in the ' Field,' 

 and prefer delaying any allusion to that theory until the 

 statistics are more complete. — Edward Newman.] 



V. Antiopa. — Will you please tell me what time we are to 

 look for this butterfly in the spring after hybernation ? — E. 

 B. Poulton. 



[The first warm days in March, and continue looking for 

 every warm day throughout March and April, — E. Newman.'] 



Is Lf/cccna Arion still to be found at Barnwell Wold ? — 

 I shall feel extremely obliged if you will inform me, through 

 the 'Entomologist,' whether you consider Lycaena Arion to 

 be still obtainable at Barnwell Wold. — E. Sutton; New 

 Kent Road, S.E., November 16, 1872. 



[I regret my inability to give any information in addition 

 to that published at p. 140 of 'British Butterflies.' Doubtless 

 some of my readers can give later intelligence. — Edward 

 Newman.] 



G. Dawson. — I am obliged by the offer of the two butter- 

 flies. I will not trouble you for them at present. — Edward 

 Newman. 



Singularly-marked Specimens of Pieris BrassiccB, 8^c. — 

 Four years ago I purchased a specimen of Pieris Brassicae, 

 male, from a collector at Middleton, because its wing- 

 rays, especially those in the under wings, were striated 

 with bright emerald-green. Feeling the man was incapable 

 of any trickery, and being unacquainted with any colour or 

 practice by which such an effect as appeared upon the speci- 

 men could be produced, I offered him half-a-crown for it, 

 and it became mine. Since then it has been examined, and 



