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THE ENTOMOLOGISTS WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
(I hate that uu-English word “ in- 
cipient,” which I see has got into use) 
took one among a lot of whites, and did 
not know he had it until an old hand 
told him of his luck. Who is to say 
this was not a bred and born Briton ? or 
were its companion whites also blown 
over from France? Really, if they all 
came together I don’t see where we are 
to stop, and we shall have to admit that 
very many other of our insects, which we 
cannot prove breed here, are foreigners, 
and therefore are naught to those col- 
lectors, who, like me, care only for our 
home produce. You may say this cuts 
against making British collections, and 
so it may, but I am not going to give up 
the idea which I have cherished as man 
and boy, now these forty years, and so I 
cling to the notion that Daplidice is not 
proved to be not British, and I will be 
no party to its extradition. 
You do not fight very hard against 
Argynnis Lathonia, feeling, no doubt, 
that you have a weak case, and content 
yourself with saying that “ if resident, 
there should be localities where it could 
be collected annually, like Actceon and 
Arion.” No doubt there are such 
localities; that is my answer to that; 
and, like many other things once 
doubted and afterwards believed as 
Gospel, these places only require to be 
found, as they will be when hunted for. 
I don’t think the “blown over” theory 
will hold with Lathonia, considering 
that as many specimens have been taken 
forty or fifty miles inland as on the 
coast. 
There is only one other species to be 
noticed, Vanessa Antiopa, and how you 
came to call it “a casual visitor” to our 
country passes my comprehension. It 
is true that it appears only at intervals, 
but when it does occur it is usually in 
some numbers, and is spread over the 
whole country. Do you think they are 
dropped down from the clouds, like the 
quails in the wilderness, that they exist 
here as they do not in any other country, 
without the desire of perpetuating their 
species, and that, like the birds that flew 
about ready roasted, calling out “ Come 
and eat us,” these butterflies live only to 
be caught? 
As well might you say that Sphinx 
Convolvuli was a foreigner because 
it occurs here at intervals; it would 
be a capital corroborative argument 
ifj it could be shown that the larva 
was never found in Britain ; and I think 
that was going to be attempted, for a 
writer lately wanted to show that the 
food-plant of the larva was unknown, — 
or it may be he wanted to prove that 
there was no larva at all — genius is so 
eccentric; but unluckily we shall be 
obliged to admit Sphinx Convolvuli as a 
Briton, for the larva has been found in 
England. 
I should like to hear what you 
have to say about Codas Ilyale and 
Deiopeia pulchella , — whether and where- 
fore they are in the list of the pro- 
scribed. 
I am, sir, 
Yours, &c., 
Non-Contknt. 
Anchor and Hope, 
True lilue Street ; 
October 23. 
