APPENDIX. 393 



Page 292. Hyria auroria. Curiis, v. si. pi. 523— I found this insect at 

 VVhittlesea Mere in July. 



Page 298. Emmelesia ericetata. Plate 32./. 3. (not 2). 



Page 299. Em. taeniata. Plate 32./. 2. (not 3). 



Page 299. Em. blaiidiata. This insect has also been taken in Scotland. 



In folio il6 Curtis introduces a new species next to this, by the name of 



Monticola, but adds no description of the uisect, which was taken on "a 



hill near Oban, Argyleshire." 



Page 301. Sp. 13". Emmelesia Blomeri. Alis anticis cano-cinertis, strigis 

 ohsciiris/iisccsceutibus, ajiice macula futvd. (E.Kp. Alar. 11 — 12 lin.) 



Melauippe Blomeri, Curtis, v. ix. pi. 416. — Anterior wings ashy-grey, 

 minutely dotted with black, with an obscure fulvescent streak near the 

 base, and some faint waved dusky ones to beyond the middle, terminating 

 in a double black line, which is considerably waved, thence to the apex 

 bright tawny, with a pale waved streak towards the hinder margin, the 

 latter with an interrupted black line: posterior wings ashy, with pale 

 fuscescent bands, darkest on the margin, which has an interrupted black 

 line ; cilia dull ochreous. 



Taken in Castle Eden Dean in July by Mr. Wailes, to whom I am indebted 

 for specimens: it was previously found by Capt. Blomer. 



Page 30-1.. Venilia maculata. In addition to the remarkable variety here 

 mentioned, may be mentioned a specimen so completely suffused with black, 

 excepting a small space towards the hinder margin of each wing, as to put 

 on the appearance of Psodos Equestrata: such an example Mr. Newman 

 allowed me to inspect. 



Page 306. Pt. cinereata .'' Referred to with doubt in my Catalogue as the 

 same with Ge. decoraria, Hubner (which I believe to be a different insect); 

 therefore not given as British by me. 



Page 309. Ptychopoda. Curtis, Jo 38-t. — I have always considered it to be 

 an acknowledged axiom that when an author finds that he has committed 

 an error^, and subsequently corrects it, whether pointed out by others, or 

 discovered by himself^ his correction is to be considered as his real opinion; 

 not so, however, with Mr. Curtis, for in almost every instance in which I 

 have corrected the old references given in my Catalogue,* or introduced 



" References, it must be remarked, often made nearly fifteen years since, as 

 well known to Mr. Curtis, — he having at the time borrowed the respective 

 portions as outlined by me in succession for the purpose of copying, and from 

 that copy, assisted by my published one and the Illustrations he formed his 

 Guide, a point rendered very evident when I mention that, out of 10, liJO species 

 tficrein introduced, he inlicates the possession cf only 4,881. 



