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doubtful; CoUas palceno, even more so; Apatura iris; A. ilia, 

 with ab. clytie and ab. metis ; Limenitis sihylla ; Melitcea aurinia, 

 with \siYS. provincialis and merope ; M. cinxia; Argynnis hecate; 

 A. pandora; Melanargia syllius ; Erebia manto and var. ascilia, 

 Hb. ; E. oeme, with vars. cceciUa, Esp., and spodia; E. glaci- 

 alis var. alecto, Hb. ; E. pronoe; E. neoridas and ab. viar- 

 garita, Oberth.* (ranked as a species) ; E. cEthiops ; Satyrus 

 statilinus and var. allionia ; S. Jidia ab. monticola, Th. Mieg. ; 

 S. actcea and var. podarce ; S. cordula (ranked as a var. of 

 actcea) ; Pararge hiera ; P. achine ; Epinephele ida ; E. pasiphae ; 

 Coenonympha iphis ; C. dorus ; Libythea celtis ; Nemeobius lucina ; 

 Thccla spini ; T. lo-album; T. pruni; Callophrys rubi; Zephyriis 

 quercus ; Z. betulce ; Lampidcs teUcanus ; Lyccena argus ; L. orion ; 

 L. eumedon ; L. damon ; L. cyllariis ; L. melanops ; Pampliila 

 palcemon ; Adopcea actcBon ; Hesperia proto ; H. serratida ; II. 

 cacalicB ; and H. malvce ; to which must now be added Lyccena 

 zephyriis var. lycidas. 



PHALONIA [ARGYROLEPIA) BADIANA, Hb. 



By Eustace R. Bankes, M.A., F.E.S. 



Dr. T. a. Chapman's note (ante, p. 213) under the above 

 heading, in which he says that he has recently bred this 

 species from seed-heads of burdock [Arctium lappa), revives 

 one's scepticism as to the accuracy of the statement published 

 in Wilkinson's 'British Tortrices,' p. 292 (1859), copied into 

 Stainton's 'Manual,' ii. p. 270 (1859), and recopiedinto Meyrick's 

 ' Handbook,' p. 548 (1898), that the larva feeds in the " stems 

 and roots" of Arcthnn lappa (burdock). The late Mr. W. P. 

 Weston's statement in Entom. xhi. p. 295 (1880), that the larva 

 feeds " in the roots" of A. I(t2)pa, is, I imagine, derived from the 

 same source, in which case Wilkinson must be held primarily 

 responsible for the widespread belief in the reputed larval habit 

 in question, which has, so far as we are aware, received no 

 confirmation during the last forty-six years. Snellen, in ' De 

 Vliuders van Nederland,' Micro-Lepidoptera, p. 246 (1882), merely 

 says of the larva, " According to Stainton it lives in the stems 

 and roots of Arctium lappa," and remarks that it is "still un- 

 described"; but four years later Sorhagen supplied the omission 

 by publishing a detailed description of the larva in ' Die Klein- 

 schmetterlinge der Mark Brandenburg,' p. 86 (1886). 



In opposition to Wilkinson's account of the larval habits 

 we have, in addition to Dr. Chapman's recent experience, the 

 following facts, recorded by some of our most careful and reliable 

 observers. In Entom. xix. p. 295 (1886), Mr. Alfred Thurnall, 



'■■ Single specimens only. 



