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LEPIDOPTERA. 



(By the Editor.) 



In this order, which has the greatest number of admirers, 

 several novelties of importance have occurred during the 

 past season, and the list includes several Macro-Lepidop- 

 tera, among them one of the Sphingina. 



The following list of new species, first recorded or ob- 

 served as British, in 1854, will satisfy those who are forming 

 collections, that they need not be in any excessive fear, lest 

 they should have obtained all the British species, and have 

 "no more worlds to conquer." 



Anthrocera Minos. 

 Petasia nubeculosa. 

 Spselotis Vallesiaca. 

 Miana expolita. 

 Simaethis Parietariae. 

 Eudorea atomalis. 

 gracilalis. 

 Crambus Cassentiniellus. 

 Retinia Resinella. 

 Gelechia viscariella. 



Ypsolophus Juniperellus. 

 Roslerstammia Pronubella. 

 Coleophora limosipennella. 

 Goniodoma auroguttella. 

 Elachista Poae. 



Gregsoni. 

 Lithocolletis cavella. 



Vacciniella. 

 Nepticula Weaveri. 



Prunetorum. 



But before commencing the observations on these novelties, 

 it will not be inexpedient to notice all the new species that 

 have occurred in this country, since the publication of Ste- 

 phens's Illustrations of British Entomology. This number is 



