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I took them (all save one pupa, which I gave to a school-fellow named 

 Price, and which was also successfully reared) to Mr. St. John to ask 

 him to rear them. He had twelve specimens in all, three of which 

 died, but nine emerged. Of these nine, I gave one to you, and three 

 to Mr. St. John for the trouble he took. The other five specimens 

 remain in my own possession. My father was with me when I found 

 the caterpillars. 



" Trusting these details will silence the doubts so unjustly cast upon 

 Mr. St. John's statements, 



Believe me, yours very faithfully, 



John Fry." 

 Copy of Mr. Hanbury's letter : — 



"37, Lombard Street, E.G., October 16th, 1893, 

 " My dear St. John, — Through your recent holiday and absence 

 from town, you have probably not yet seen the way in which the 

 correction you sent to the ' Entomologist's Eecord ' on the subject of 

 the capture of D. euphoibice has been treated. As to the good taste of 

 the remarks which are appended to your note, I need say nothing ; 

 they are evidently written with a view to 'drawing' you on the subject. 

 Under the circumstances, however, I think it is a case in which there 

 can be no possible reason for maintaining secrecy any longer. I wrote 

 to Mr. Fry on the subject, and enclose his reply, and have since seen 

 him personally. He quite agrees with me that there is nothing to be 

 gained by withholding information which he at first asked us not to 

 divulge. I hope, therefore, you will see your way to sending a note to 

 the ' Entomologist ' on the subject, quoting Mr. Fry's letter, and, if 

 you like to do so, my own also. You will doubtless remember that in 

 the first instance Mr. Fry brought the euphorhicB to me, not knowing what 

 they xoere, and it was by my advice that he took them on to you to rear for 

 him ; I can therefore substantiate your statements in every particular. 



Believe me, yours faithfully, 



Fkederick J. Hanbuky." 



A word as to the apparent discrepancy between Mr. Fry's letter 

 and my account as to the number of the larvae he found. I was 

 under the impression that the thirteen eujjhoi-hice he brought back 

 to town represented the total number he found. But the dis- 

 crepancy in no way tells against the facts. I have some of the 

 sandy cocoons in which the larvae spun up now in my possession. 

 I may add that Mr. Barrett has had no hesitation in admitting the 

 capture of these larvae as genuine in his book. It is a matter of 

 no moment to me whatever whether Mr. Tutt believes in the 

 genuineness of these D. eiqjhorhics as British or not, but I do wish 

 entomologists to know that Mr. Fry is not the inventor of a fraud, 

 and that I should hardly be so foolish or wrong as to publish the 

 capture, and exhibit specimens publicly before a meeting of the 

 Ent. Soc. of London without first of all being quite sure of my 

 ground. 



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