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Stephens, who subsequently discovered that the specimens 

 were only Botys fuscalis. The first genuine captures appear 

 to have been made in the Isle of Wight and at Folkestone in 

 the year 1869, in both instances in very marshy spots near 

 the sea. In the following years considerable numbers were 

 secured in these two very restricted localities, and then, as 

 seems natural, the numbers declined, until one locality 

 became quite unproductive, and the other was totally washed 

 away by the sea. 



On July 27, 1870, I myself was collecting, with the Rev. 

 E. N. Bloomfield, along the bank of one of the long drains 

 in Ranworth Feu, Norfolk, when a specimen of this species 

 flew up from our feet and was secured. We worked hard 

 for more without result, and so far as can be ascertained this 

 is the only specimen which has ever been seen in any portion 

 of our fen district or in any part of the Eastern Counties, 

 and the occurrence of this specimen — which is in my cabinet 

 — is one of the most perplexing exjjeriences that has 

 happened to me. The only recent captures of which I am 

 aware are of a few specimens in the Isle of Purbeck in 1899. 

 and the three subsequent years, recorded by Mr. Eustace R. 

 Bankes, and of one in Surrey, in 1902, by Mr. R. South ; 

 and except for the strange capture in Norfolk, its range with 

 us appears to be strictly limited to the coasts of Kent, 

 Hants, and Dorset. Abroad it is found over the greater 

 part of Europe, except the extreme western and northern 

 portions ; and it also occurs in Armenia. 



Genus 14 NOMOPHILA. 



Antennas simple ; palpi pointed, drooping ; head rough 

 with converging scales; thorax smooth; abdomen slender; 

 fore wings long and very narrow, blunt ; the cell also long 

 and narrow ; hind wings ample, cell short and pointed ;. 

 cross-bar curved ; legs long. 



We have but one species. 



