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in the collection of Mr. Garrett, who is engaged in business in Ipswich, two or three 

 Lathonias, which he told me he had taken, some years before, near the town. I 

 regret that I have mislaid his letter, but there can bejio doubt about it. Perhaps 

 Mr. Newman will specify the other instances, which he believes to be the only ones, 

 in which Lathonia and Daplidice have unquestionably occurred ; and will also tell us 

 what insects an entomologist who is jealous of the honour of his cabinet must avoid. 

 Chrysidiformis has turned up : why may not Virgaureae or Chryseis, or any other 

 reputed British insect? For many years the only known specimen of L. Muscerda was 

 one found in a ditch by Mr. Sparshall ; yet this very local insect is found in one spot on 

 Horning Fen in considerable abundance, and, T believe, nowhere else. Would it not 

 be more charitable in Mr. Newman to conclude that insects may exist, though he is 

 not fortunate enough to meet with them, than to suspect multitudes of collectors of 

 wilfully stating what is not the truth to enhance the value of their cabinets? Are 

 there no localities of two or three hundred acres, such as Horning Fen, which have 

 been hitherto overlooked ? I confess I prefer the evidence of one respectable entomo- 

 logist, who states that he has taken a scarce insect, to that of all the authorities of the 

 Entomological Society, who can only say that they have never met with it. I cannot 

 conceive anything more likely to deter a young collector from mentioning the capture 

 of any insect hitherto disputed than the paragraph of Mr. Newman's. What, how- 

 ever, must young collectors think, after reading the passage in question, when they 

 see, on the very next page, Lathonias, Daplidice?, and other rare insects which the 

 most latitudinarian entomologist would hesitate to acknowledge as British, advertised 

 in quantity under the sanction of the 'Zoologist?' Since writing the above, I 

 observe (Zool. 4650) a notice of the capture of six Lathonias by the Rev. W. Hawker. 

 Does Mr. Newman allude to these, and are all others spurious? — E. C. Buxton; 

 Myddlelon Hall, Warrington, April, 16, 1856. 



Parnassim Apollo at Ealing. — I beg to inform you that I yesterday met a gentle- 

 man who assured me that he saw Parnassius Apollo at Hanwell about six years ago. 

 He chased it, but without success. This gentleman's veracity may be relied on. At 

 a time when Apollo's claim to be a British insect is under discussion every scrap of 

 information is of value. — Henry Austin ; Little Ealing, April 14, 1856. 



Chrysophanus Dispar in Staffordshire. — Seeing in your ' Manual,' it is stated 

 at page 1 1, that the large copper is only to be obtained in the fens, I beg to say, that 

 a few days ago a gentleman brought to show me a male and female of that species, 

 which he had captured last year in Staffordshire: this is a new locality to me, and I 

 suppose is so to most entomologists : I quite expect this insect will be diligently 

 looked after this season in this new locality. — Richard Weaver ; 25, Pershore Street, 

 Birmingham, April 9, 1856. — {Intelligencer, April 19.] 



Recent Entomological Captures in the Neighbourhood of Witney, Oxon. — On the 

 11th of March a moth, either the long-winged pearl (Margaritia lancealis), a variety 

 of that insect, or a closely allied species, was found reposing on the trunk of an oak 

 in Cokethorpe Park. The pearls, as a family, usually make their debut in June or 

 July. The appearance therefore of one of them at this early period, even if it be 

 not a new species, seems worthy of note. Seven more specimens have since been ob- 

 tained in this locality. On the 17th I took the satellite (Glea satellitia) at sugar in 

 Cokethorpe Wood. Nothing is said by Wood, or by Humphrey and Westwood, 

 about a spring appearance of this insect. Its appearance in the autumu is well 

 kuovvu, and I tan only attribute the fact of its reappearance at this season to its 



