88 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
given to me by the late Mr. Paget, of Yarmouth. The late 
M. Becker saw these specimens the first time he paid me a 
visit, and said they were Innotata. He promised to send me 
German specimens, which he did soon after his return home, 
and they appeared to agree with those captured by Mr. Paget. 
Some years afterwards my friend, the Rev. H. Harpur Crewe, 
bred a closely-allied species from larve found on ash, which 
he named Fraxinata. I then thought it possible that Mr. 
Paget’s insects were this species, but I still entertained a 
suspicion that M. Becker was right, and mentioned this to 
some of my friends, and I think to Mr. Gregson some years 
ago. I also said that the larve should be looked for on 
Artemisia campestris, which grows abundantly on the sandy 
heaths of Norfolk and Suffolk. Ihave bred Innotata from 
larvee sent me, from Cannes, by M. Milliére. If Mr. Gregson 
has known for years that this species is found in Norfolk, I 
am rather surprised that he has withheld the information so 
long from his friends, I am quite certain that the Eupithecia 
which Mr. Buxton sent me was not [nnotata: it was nota 
“fine” specimen, one of the superior wings being consider- 
ably damaged. I looked over Herrich-Scheffer’s figures of 
Kupithecia, and it appeared to me to agree better with that 
of Egenaria than any other species. 1 then sent it to my 
friend M. Guenée, who said that as far as he could judge 
from a single specimen it was new to him, and that he had 
never seen Egenaria. I then sent it to Herrich-Scheffer 
himself, and he said it was his Egenaria, an insect of which 
very little is known, as Dr. Staudinger doubtingly gives it as 
a variety of Arceuthata.—Henry Doubleday ; Epping, March 
18, 1874. | 
Argynnis Niobe.—Mr. Doubleday has called my attention to 
a statement at p. 154 of the ‘ Entomologist’s Annual’ for 1874, 
to the effect that as yet there is no evidence of the female of 
Argynnis Niobe occurring in this country, whereas all the 
reputed British specimens of Niobe are females: the sexes are 
very different, and do not assimilate like the sexes of Adippe. 
I believe all the reputed specimens of Niobe have passed 
through my hands, some of them while still living, and 
certainly they were females.—Hdward Newman. 
Syntomis Phegea as a British Insect.—The writer of an 
article in the ‘Kntomologist’s Annual’ for 1874, p. 155, has 
