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P. icarus. We found some interesting forms of the female 

 of the northern form of this species. 



E. antiopa. " What's hit's history ; what's missed's mystery." 

 Nevertheless the evidence that a specimen of antiopa was seen 

 by Mrs. Keynes appears to me so convincing that I propose to 

 give it. On July 6th, when we met at lunch, Mrs. Keynes, who 

 had been for a short distance up the path by the AUt Mohr, told 

 us that she had seen "a large dark butterfly with pale borders to 

 the wings," reminding her of the Camberwell Beauties she had 

 seen in Switzerland. She had tried to capture it, but it had 

 evaded the net. It so happened that the morning's post had 

 brought the July number of the ' Entomologist,' and on opening 

 it after lunch we found (p. 160) that three specimens of antiopa 

 laad been taken at Kinloch-Rannoch in May (1918), and three 

 others elsewhere in Scotland, in April and May. I have since 

 learned that Dr. A. H. Foster acquired one of these specimens, 

 a female, alive, and sent it to Mr. Newman in the hopes that a 

 brood might be reared. Unfortunately, though eggs were aid 

 they were unfertile. It appears to me highly probable that the 

 specimen seen by Mrs. Keynes was the offspring of or possibly a 

 survivor of the spring migrants. 



A. aglnia was plentiful on the lower slopes of the hills and 

 B. selene not uncommon. 



I left on Friday, July 12th, to return to Witherslack for the 

 emergence of P. cbcjou var. masseyi. I propose to reserve what I 

 have to say on this species for a future occasion, and will now 

 only point out what I believe to be an error in the record of its 

 distribution in Tutt's ' Natural History of British Butterflies,' 

 vol. iii, pp. 203 and 229. It is there stated that " it was first 

 recorded from these mosses [on the Westmorland and Lancashire 

 borders] by Hodgkinson, who captured it at Witherslack on July 

 21st, 1856, and then in profusion on July 14th-loth, 1861, at 

 Whitbarrow Scar . . ." Before I arrived at Witherslack it 

 had struck me as very remarkable that a peculiar form found on 

 peat mosses should also occur on a hill 700 ft. high, and the 

 impression was emphasised when I was there and saw Whit- 

 barrow with the appearance described at the beginning of this 

 paper. Having found the insect in abundance on the low 

 ground I visited Whitbarrov.^ and, with the courteous permission 

 of Mr. Wm. Farrer, in whose property it is included, explored the 

 top of the hill, in company with Mr. A. H. Pearson, another 

 collector. This was on July 16th, within a day of the date of 

 Hodgkinson's find fifty-seven years earlier — a fine sunny day, 

 and we spent several hours traversing the southern two miles of 

 the top (which is the part locally called " The Scar "), along 

 many lines. We obtained fine views of the Langdale Pikes to 

 the north and of the estuary of the Kent to the east — but no 



