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all in or about the same district. This 
also is very strong evidence as to their 
residing in Britain, for if they could not 
fly over by themselves (which we will 
suppose to be the case from what has 
been said) it is very improbable indeed 
that three or four should be “ blown over” 
together. 
We now come to the argument adduced 
by “ Non-content,” which I am afraid 
will go but a very little way to persuade 
those who read it as to its accuracy. It 
does not follow that because you are not 
certain that it does not occur in Kent 
and Sussex every year, that it should be 
a resident in Britain. The point is to 
prove that it does occur here, — that the 
larva and pupa are to be found here, — and 
then we shall be certain of its identity ; 
but before then what certainty can there 
be, although, as I have before shown, the 
probability is great. Then he says, 
“ Who is to say this was not a bred and 
born Briton ?” Is not the question, Who 
can prove that it is ? I fear his argument 
is somewhat prejudicial, and his associa- 
tions and notions, entertained for forty 
years, has led him a little from the path 
of impartiality. 
Altogether, it would appear that the 
inference to be drawn from the facts which 
are given us within the last year, amounts 
to a probability, verging on certainty, 
but that certainty can never be esta- 
blished till, as you have said in the 
‘ Intelligencer,’ No. 160, they are proved 
to be resident in England, appearing 
annually or periodically in some one or 
more places ; or by the discovery of the 
larva or pupa. 
I am afraid I have already detained 
you too long, and therefore shall leave 
future arguments with regard to Lathonia 
and Antiopa to those who have more 
time for these subjects, and I shall be 
glad to sec them in a future number of 
the ‘ Intelligencer.’ 
L. B.B. 
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