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Hence but little evidence of their existence is likely to remain. 

 Dr. Colley March is to be congratulated on what he has discovered, 

 but the fact of so industrious and acute an observer having during 

 several years' search had no greater success, is evidence of the 

 paucity of the remains of ice-work in the county. 



We cannot, I think, do better than re-echo the words of Mr. 

 Horace Woodward, after he had inspected the evidence Dr. Colley 

 March has so kindly presented to us, and say: "The facts you 

 have gathered with regard to the drift phenomena in South Dorset 

 are most interesting, and we are convinced that you have good 

 evidence of the action of local snow and ice and the slipping and 

 melting of masses of snow and ice and incorporated material." 

 But may I also add that we are still unconvinced that our country 

 was ever invaded by a vast Scandinavian ice-sheet, that we object 

 to foreign-made goods, and prefer to still believe that our glacial 

 ice was made in England ? 



Notes on Eumichtis (Hadena) adusta Esp, 

 var. pavida=chardinyi. 



By W. Parkinson Curtis, Esq., F.E.S. 



BoiSDUVALin 1829 published "Europaeorum Lepidopterorum Index 

 Methodicus Pars primer (1829)." He subsequently in 1840 

 published " Genera et Index methodicus Europaeorum Lepi- 

 dopterorum (1840)." In this work he says at page 140 : — 



Hadena. 



( Pavida 



943 V -J Russia 

 [ chardinyi Dup. suppl. 



Now he had in 1829 described an insect as Anarta chardinyi? 

 see B. Ind., p. 94 (1829), which was a totally distinct insect, and he 

 subsequently changed the name to Triphgena chardinyi {I cones, 

 vol. II, pi. 84, fig. 1). 



Apparently Boisduval considered chardinyi Dup. as pre- 

 occupied with chardinyi Bdv., but since the insects belong to 

 totally distinct genera and moreover chardinyi Dup. is a var. of 

 Eumichtis adusta Esp., Boisduval is wrong. He gives no descrip- 

 tion whatever, and contents himself with sinking chardinyi Dup. 

 as synonymic. 



Duponchel in vol. Ill, supplement to " Godart Lep. ou Pap. 

 Fr." (being a supplement to vols. IV, et seq. of that work), describes 



