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butterfly is fairly common in North Lancashire, and vars. allous, 

 Hb., semiallous, Harrison, and albiannulata, Harrison, are of frequent 

 occurrence. The pathological specimen, taken on July 21st, 1906, 

 mentioned in Tutt, vol. ii, p. 231, which has the right hind wing of 

 a silvery colour as in H. phlaeas ab. schmidtii, but with the orange- 

 reddish spots normal, was kindly sent to me many years ago by Mr. 

 Harrison, and is in my collection along with all those mentioned 

 a b ove . — Albert B. Weight ; Brunleigh, Grange-over-Sands. 



AcROBASISTUMIDANA, SCHIFF = VEEEUCELLA, Hb., ==BUBEOTIBIELLA, 



E.B., at Daeenth. — In the catalogue of the second portion of the 

 Farn Collection I noticed that there was included in Lot 433 five 

 examples purporting to be this extremely rare British species, and 

 for their sakes I acquired the lot. A close examination, before the 

 sale, of course, convinced me that they were actually A. twnidana. 

 The history of this species as British is one of the most remarkable 

 of any of our Lepidoptera. It was first taken by B. McLachlan, in 

 1858, at Forest Hill, on the outskirts of London, apparently in some 

 numbers. Odd specimens have since been taken at wide intervals 

 in Hants, Dorset, and Suffolk. The Barn specimens are labelled 

 in Barn's own writing "Darenth"; they bear the dates August, 

 1873 (1), and August, 1875 (4). They are mounted on the ordinary 

 gilt pins, and judging by the setting, were probably taken by Barn 

 himself. At this date his labels, at any rate amongst the Phycids, 

 did not state the name of the captor. It seems rather remarkable 

 that these specimens were never recorded ; but then Barn hardly 

 ever recorded any of his captures, and one supposes, too, that the too 

 well known and frequented locality from which they came- — Darenth 

 — prevented him, for reasons of strategy, from disclosing their origin, 

 or even the fact that he possessed them. — W. G. Sheldon ; April 

 12th, 1922. 



Butterflies attracted by Human Berspiration. — The small 

 collection of Lepidoptera enumerated below was received some months 

 ago from my brother-in-law, Mr. Brank B. Hinchliff, who had recently 

 obtained them while on a fishing expedition in Baraguay and Misiones 

 in company with his cousin, Mr. Theodore Hubbard. He had no net 

 nor any collecting apparatus with him, and his account of the means 

 by which the butterflies were captured is so unusual I feel it should 

 not be left unrecorded. He writes : "I have just returned from a 

 six weeks' trip to Baraguay and Misiones, where I stayed at T — 's 

 estancia — a very interesting trip indeed. . . . Butterflies were not 

 in hundreds, but in thousands. It was a sight to see poor T — trying 

 to fish with swarms of 'Burple Emperor '-like butterflies and others 

 settling on his face and hands like mosquitoes — he counted nine 

 different varieties at one time on his rod alone, and his face was 

 covered with them, lapping up the perspiration that flowed down his 

 cheeks. 'Swallow-tails' of all sorts and sizes simply swarmed. Some 

 I failed to get, having no net, but I caught others by hand off my 

 rod and face." With regard to this curious attraction that human 

 perspiration seems to have for butterflies, I may mention that I have 

 had many opportunities of collecting in the tropics, in both hemi- 

 spheres, yet such an experience never happened to me, although I 



