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logical world calls Danais archippus, Mr. Weir remarked that 

 the genus Anosia was established by Hiibner in 1816, and 

 this insect placed in it under the name of menippe ; but 

 Linnaeus, in 1758, had named the species plexippus, and it 

 was not till 1793 that Fabricius named it archippus. All this 

 is shown in Mr. Moore's admirable monograph of Limnaina 

 and Euplceina in the proceedings of the Zoological Society, 

 1883, pp. 233-34. It was true that the name plexippus was 

 erroneously applied to Salatura genutia, Cram. (1779), an 

 Indian species, by several authors. Linnaeus describes his 

 species as American ; but little attention was paid in his time 

 to the geographical distribution of animals, and some of his 

 followers misapplied the description. At all events, both the 

 generic name Anosia, and the specific name plexippus, were 

 long ago applied to this insect, the latter indeed for more 

 than a century and a quarter. 



Mr. E. Sabine exhibited a variety of Papilio machaon, 

 L., which was especially noticeable on account of the at- 

 tenuated character of the band on the hind wings. Also a 

 number of varieties of Zygcena ftlipendula, L., taken in Kent, 

 including several of the yellow form. 



This gentleman also exhibited varieties of Lyccena bel- 

 largus, Rott., the specimens exhibited including a number of 

 light forms and two black males. Mr. Sabine gave an account 

 of how he took this extraordinary number of varieties, and 

 said that they represented examples of both the spring and 

 autumnal broods, and with the exception of one of the black 

 males (which was captured in a previous year) were all taken 

 during the present season. They were all found on a chalky 

 soil ; and he was of opinion that they were hybrids between 

 bellargus and corydon y as on one occasion at the same locality, 

 he took a male of bellargus in copula with a female of corydon. 



Mr. Weir remarked with regard to these varieties that he 

 thought the light specimens must be hybrids between the two 

 species mentioned by Mr. Sabine, but the curious part of the 



