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him from York, though the buff ground colour seems decidedly 
more intense in the male. I can fully endorse Dr. Riding’s 
statement, as I saw the specimens he alludes to when looking 
through his collection at Buckerel Lodge, Honiton, in August last. . 
With regard to the all important question which has been and is 
believe, I may say as the result of all my investigations, I am firmly 
convinced that it is genuine, and that Mr. Harrison is entitled to our 
warmest pang iatipte for his marked and well-merited success. 
‘Le bruit court’ that Mr. Harrison has still another and perhaps 
more interesting surprise in store for us, the result of careful artificial 
selection on his part. This I will leave him to announce, and lest 
‘je decouvre le pot aux roses,’ will merely add that the species selected 
comes from the same interesting genus Arctia. In conclusion, 
I desire to thank most heartily all those gentlemen whose names I have 
mentioned in this paper (also very many others whose names do not 
appear), for the material aid they have rendered me, both by their 
kind replies to my enquiries and for affording me special facilities 
for the ARE of their collections. 
On Nov. roth, since writing the above, I journeyed to Crosland 
Hall, near Huddersfield, the beautiful home of Mr. G. T. Porrit 
.E.S., expressly to view that gentleman’s series of 
S. lubricipeda and its varieties, by far the finest series that it has 
and three females, typical, bred in 1894 at Huddersfield ; 15 males 
and 14 females, of the variety known as /asciata, from Harrison’s 
strain; 16 males and 17 females, bred from cross between male 
radiata and female fasciata, including the original parents (a truly 
grand lot of forms), similar to eboraci, leading up to and including 
specimens of radiata; 22 males and 22 females of variety radiata, 
selected examples, one of them, a male, being unusually dark, and 
another, a female, having the joi black instead of white; this 
form, Mr. Porritt tells me, is very rar 
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e that Mr. P. B. Mason’s kindness in a pores the use of his 
speci 
Monthly Magazine for September last the continuation or his ete i " 
Additions and Corrections to the British list of Aculeate Hymenoptera. 
Naturalist, 
