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in July 1844 by the late Mr. C. Jordan and Dr. R. C. R. 

 Jordan at Teignmouth, Devon. The latter says : " It came 

 to light as we were sitting by an open window facing the 

 river." This specimen he also allowed me to examine, and 

 of its identity I am fully satisfied. In 1858 another was 

 recorded as taken in June at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, 

 by Mr. W. D. Crotch. Since then there have been reports 

 of specimens captured in the Isle of Wight, and even the 

 Isle of Man, all of which seem to require confirmation. 

 There is no such necessity, however, in the case of one 

 secured in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, on the 8th of June 

 1892, by Mr. Eustace R. Banks. He says: "The greatest 

 prize this year was met with when I was working a salt 

 marsh at the edge of Poole Harbour. As I was walking 

 slowly along the border of the marsh at about 6 P.M. a queer- 

 looking pale moth flew up from among the rushes under my 

 feet and settled again three or four yards further on and 

 within a foot of the edge of the water. As there was a strong 

 breeze blowing straight off shore across the harbour I crept 

 up cautiously (with my heart in my mouth) and held my net 

 over the water behind the moth ; then on my bending clown 

 to try to box it as it sat it flew up and was carried by 

 the wind safely into the bottom of the net." 



The very reasonable conclusion of its captor was that it 

 might have migrated from the Continent in company with 

 the myriads of Colias Eclusa, Vanessa cardui, and other 

 species which had undoubtedly about that time crossed the 

 Channel. These are all the captures of this species with the 

 details of which I am at all acquainted. There is an example 

 in the collection of the late Mr. Bond, but it is unfortunately 

 unlabelled. Abroad it is found throughout Southern Europe, 

 including Turkey ; Syria, Asia Minor, some parts of India ; 

 Egypt, and Morocco, and doubtless other parts of Northern 

 Africa. 



3. T. paula, Hub. — Expanse § inch. Body slender, 



