% Jfi^to ^0tcs 01T pclx0tljis Sattosa. 



By W. KEMPSTER MANN. 



Bead before the Entom. Sect., Feb. 12th, 1889. 



r I 1HE specimen exhibited is perhaps the rarest species of 

 -■- Lepidoptera that has ever been recorded from the 

 Bristol district. It was captured by Mr. A. H. Jones, at 

 Burnham, Somerset, August, 1877, flying at dusk over a 

 species of clover. It passed into the collection of Mr. W. 

 H. Grigg, and . has now come into my possession with his 

 collection. 



This species appears to have been taken so far back as 

 1833, near Dalston, Carlisle, by Mr. James Cooper, who 

 carried it alive to Mr. T. C. Hey sham. It was forwarded 

 to Mr. Curtis, who figured and described it in his " British 

 Entomology," plate, 595. Another specimen was taken on 

 the coast near Shinburness in August, 1834. 



As far as I can find, it was not recorded again until Mr. 

 Thornthwaite took one in the summer of 1875, and another 

 in 1876, both in Norfolk. 



Mr. C. G. Barrett, in recording the caj^ture of these two, 

 observed (Ento. Mo. Mag., p. 281, vol. 13), they were the 

 first genuine British specimens, and that the Carlisle species 

 was Dlpsacea ; but in vol. 14, Ento. Mo. Mag., p. 67, Mr. 



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