354 HEWETT : SPILOSOMA LUBRICIPEDA AND ITS VARIETIES. 
Entomologist for 1874, vol. vii, 169, as having been sent him from 
Mr. Dawson, of Driffield, there is one in the Allis Collection at the 
York Museum, which I had the pleasure of examining in company 
with Mr. S. J. Capper, F.L.S., F.E.S., on the roth October. This 
specimen, although not so dark as some of the choicest forms of var. 
radiata \ately bred by Messrs. Harrison, Young, Tugwell, and Porritt, 
is to all intents and purposes identical with them, and exactly corre- 
sponded with some two dozen specimens of var. radiata which 
Mr. Capper had with him on that occasion. There is neither date, 
locality, nor name of captor affixed to this, or indeed to any of the 
specimens in the collection, but I think it can be taken for granted 
that it is a York or Yorkshire specimen. 
The only other record that I have been able to obtain of var" 
radiata having occurred in Yorkshire previous to the introduction of 
Mr. Harrison’s fine form in 1891, is that of three specimens which 
were taken at rest, not bred, by Mr. Sweeney, at Driffield, some 
twelve or fifteen years ago; these specimens, which I have had the 
pleasure of seeing on three separate occasions, are smaller than those 
bred by Mr. Harrison, but identical in every other particular with 
specimens sent me by Messrs. G. T. Porritt and W. H. Tugwell, 
and with which I compared them; they are in fair condition, 
decidedly aged, and set on household pins. As far as I am aware, 
I do not see any reason for doubting their authenticity, which I think 
is beyond dispute. 
Thus we have records of six specimens of var. radiata having 
been taken or bred in Yorkshire previous to 1891, and I am firmly 
convinced that had the works of Darwin and Wallace been more 
widely read, and the principles of heredity and artificial selection 
therein explained, better understood and acted upon, we should not 
have had to wait until 1891 to see this truly grand form bred for the 
first time in England, as the result of artificial selection. 
Mr. Harrison, of Barnsley, whose fine lot of var. radiata and 
intermediate forms I have had the pleasure of seeing, and to whom 
I wrote for particulars of any variation in S. /ubricifeda in his district, 
says :—‘I do not remember ever breeding S. /udricifeda in any form — 
previous to 1891, in fact my series had been picked up casually, and 
were only the ordinary form, neither radiata, eboraci, nor fasciata; 
and I distinctly say any of these three forms do not occur in this 
district to my knowledge, neither in a wood or any weedy en, 
as reported [see Entomological Transactions (London), November 
meeting 1892, part 4, page xxix., for my original and true history] 
‘My original male was of that form (/fasciata) and would no doubt 
be one of the Grimsby pupz, as I selected the strongest marked 
Naturalist, 
