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OBSERVATIONS. 
Hymenoptera. 
The genus Chrysis. The genus 
Chrysis is a beautiful genus, and 
there are some very rare species in it, 
but by far the greater number given 
by Stephens are varieties only, and 
have been cut down. 
I never took the female of C. Ful - 
gida but I ’had the male under my 
net (a coarse sweeping net) and saw it 
fiy away on taking it (the net) gently 
up covered with dust. This was in 
the New Forest, and I have taken 
the more beautiful one C. Suceinta 
in several places, — such as Parley 
Heath, Bournemouth, Lulworth etc. 
J. C. Dale, Gian Wootton, Sherborne, 
Dorset. 
liEriDOPTERA. 
Notes on British ? Butterflies, In 
the old Entomological Transactions is 
recorded Thecla Spini and I have the 
specimen which has the label with 
u Spini?” on it. It certainly is not 
Spini, but I found a specimen at the 
British Museum of T. Silenus Hub. 
agreeing with it, and which is from 
South America. I have seen in differ- 
ent cabinets no less than four distinct 
species as representatives of it. I got 
the true T. Spini from Chapman of 
York, — unset and mixed with a lot of 
other insects, but he could give me no 
account of how he came by it. I 
saw T. ilicis at Bristol in two cabinets 
as Spini from Mansfield (dealer,) and 
another Mr. Sparshall of Norwich 
lent to Mr. Curtis, and he took a col- 
ored drawing (which I saw,) and be 
wrote to Curtis “ as far as I can recol- 
lect, I think I had my specimen of T. 
Spini (the one here alluded to) from 
Haworth many years ago in exchange. 
It is a very fine one, and if you 
wish to figure it in your work at 
any time, I will lend it to you 
(though not to any one) and will 
bring it with me in the course of 
next month. How Stephens could 
have the impudence to say I took it 
myself, is most extraordinary, as I 
have had so little communication 
with him. He must have fancied it. 
I begged Mr. Davies to ask him to 
contradict it, which I cannot find he 
has ever done. I found on looking 
over the Linnaean collection (then at 
Norwich) that it contains the true 
Spini under the name of Echion Linn, 
which you will see. How glad I am 
to find that the Linnaean Society has 
purchased it.” Dated June 3rd. 1829. 
Sparshall however wrote to me and 
said he had the Thecla Spini ? from 
Dr. Leach in exchange for Bombyx 
Bini (which Curtis figured and stated 
Sparshall took at Norwich in the 
Hospital Window. B. Pint is now 
doubted as British, but from the im- 
mense forests of pine timber now in 
England especially in Hampshire &c, 
it ought to occur, — as well as Sphinx 
pinastri, of which we have well au- 
thenticated accounts, though few, of 
its being British. 
I always thought that Lewin’s 
P. hyacinthus was distinct and it is 
now proved to be L . Dorylas of which 
I have a male from Switzerland. We 
Bhall have many on the “look, out” 
this season, no doubt. Id. 
