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quarry" (Entom., xviii., pp. 292-3). Exhibited by St. John at meeting of Ent. 

 Soc. London, on December 2nd, 1891, as "taken by Dr. Marsh, in 1884, in Somer- 

 setshire " (see Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1891, p. xxxi). Sold by St. John at Stevens' 

 sale-rooms, January 22nd, 1894, the specimens producing £4 10s. (see Ent. Bee., 

 v., p. 40). Bought for the "Dale collection." Transferred with the 

 " Dale collection " to the Hope Museum, and reported on by J. J. Walker, as 

 "A pair in good order ; the 3 has a circular ticket, ' Dr. Marsh, 1874,Whatley ' ; 

 the ? ' Whatley, Somerset,' at side. These would appear to be the specimens re- 

 corded by the Ke v. J. Seymour St. John, in Entom., xviii., p. 292 " (Ent. Mo. Mar)., 

 xliii.,p. 132). It is interesting to learn that these two insects are now "in good 

 order," as they were " saved from a collection fast going to ruin," and had been 

 presumably " cleaned and doctored " by St. John ; and that they have changed from 

 " both male specimens " (Ent., xviii., p. 292) to a male and female. It is also interest- 

 ing to bear in mind that three Vanessa antiopa in the " Burney collection " had been 

 supplied by "Dr. Marsh, Norfolk," and sold for 6s. each (see Ent. Rec, v., p. 40). 

 Also that in the collection of " Dr. Marsh, of Cawston, Norfolk," Barrett detected 

 a number of Syrichthus alveus, taken in Norfolk about 20 years before (Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., xxviii., p. 244). 



[6. — <? specimen in recorder's collection, captured 1895 or 1896, at Wrington, 

 about twelve miles north of Bristol. (This was recorded by "R. D. R.," Entom., 

 xxxvii., p. 47, in 1904, with the remark, " I was not aware of the name of my insect 

 until I " saw the figure of this butterfly in the new issue of Kirby's Butts, and 

 Moths of Europe." We object most strongly to records appearing without a name ; 

 in the case of rare British insects we consider such records purposeless.)] 



Distribution. — Throughout the Pahearctic region, including the 

 whole of Europe from Spain, Italy and Greece in the south, 

 to Russia (about 60° N. lat.) in the north, throughout Asia Minor, 

 and northern and central Asia to the Himalayas and China (to 

 about 30° N. lat.), including western Asia, southern Siberia, 

 Mongolia, Tibet, eastern China, Japan, Corea, Manchuria, and 

 Amurland. In the form diporides this species overlaps dipora and 

 parrhasius in the southeastern part of Asia, and appears to enter the 

 Oriental region in India. [It is recorded from India, throughout the 

 East Indies, Australia, etc., almost certainly erroneously, instead of 

 dipora or j^ctrrhasius, which de Niceville does not consider distinct.] Its 

 range in the Nearctic area has already been noted (see our remarks 

 under comyntas, etc., antea pp. 73-76). Asia : Asia Minor, distributed 

 (Rebel), Amasia, Lenkoran (teste Riihl), Brussa (Dieckemann) ; Altai mts. — Biisk, 

 Bija valley (Elwes), Ongodai (Jacobson) ; Tomsk district — Minusinsk (Brit. Mus. 

 Coll.) ; Thian-Shan and Kouldja district (Alpheraky); Ala Tau (Haberhauer), 

 Lepsa (teste Riihl) ; Pamirs — New Margelan (Grum-Grshimailo) ; Thibet (Oberthur) ; 

 India* : Western Ghats — Kanara district (Bell), the moister parts of Ladak, 

 throughout Kashmir, all along the Himalayas (Niceville), Massuri (Hiigel), Cherra 

 Punji, North-west India, North-west Himalayas, Khasia, Assam, and Maymyo in 

 the North Shan States (Chapman teste specimens in Brit. Mus. Coll.) ; North, 

 Central, and West China — Shan-Tung (Seitz), Sz. Chuan (Bethune-Baker coll.), 

 Mongolia — Chang-Hai (Oberthur), Kwei-Chow Province, Kiu-Kiang on the Yangtse 

 (Leech), Ichang Gorge, Chang-Yang (Pratt), Yunnen (Oberthur) ; Hong-Kong, 

 Chusan Isles (Walker), W T ei-hai-Wei (Fletcher) ; Manchuria (Oberthur) ; Corea 

 (Herz), West Corea — Chemulpo, South-east Corea (Brit. Mus. Coll.) ; Amurland 

 nr. Permskoe, Mulki (teste Riihl), Askold (Oberthur), Bureja Mts., Ussuri, 

 Pokrofka, Chabarofka, Baranofka, Sutschan, Yladivostock (Staudinger), Raddefka, 

 Dahuria, Schilka (teste Riihl), Kentei district (Dorries), Lena district — Wilui 

 (Herz) ; Japan, throughout — Yokohama (Pryer), Nikko, Satsuma, Fushiki (Leech), 

 Nagasaki (Herz), Tokio (Elwes), Hakodate, Kobe (Butler), Kiso-Gawa, Asahiga 



* Want confirmation— Burma, the Malda district, Bholahat, Orissa, Ganjam, 

 Nagpur, Mhow, the Nilgiris, Travancore, Ceylon, the Nicobar Isles, including 

 Nankowri and Katscball (Niceville) ; Further India — Tenasserim and the Malay 

 subregion (Bingham) ; East Indies — Java (Horslield), Malacca, Singapore (Distant), 

 Celebes (Snellen), Sumatra (Niceville), Nais Island (Kheil). [Many (if not all) of 

 these refer, no doubt, to dipora, Moore, or pa rrliasius, Fab.] 



