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very considerable ; and though most have been enumerated 

 in Doubleday's Catalogue of British Lepidoptera, and the 

 Museum Catalogue of Stephens, yet as neither of those 

 works contains any notices of their captures, nor in whose 

 collections they are extant, those who do not mix with the 

 Entomological throng, but derive their information from 

 books, are little aware how completely the entire science has 

 been bouleverse in the last twenty years. 



I should premise that Erebia 3Ielampus, described and 

 figured by Newman, in the Zoologist for 1844, page 729, as 

 a new British Butterfly, has long since been consigned to 

 the tomb of oblivion, as being only the Scotch variety of 

 Cassiope; and now proceed to the 



NEW BRITISH SPECIES SINCE 1835. 



Procris Globulari^:, Hubner, which had long been 

 among the reputed British species, was first recorded, as 

 actually caught in this country, by Mr. Weir, in the 

 Zoologist for 1845, page 1085. Mr. Weir took the insect 

 in some plenty on the Downs near Lewes, and it has subse- 

 quently been taken nearly every year by the collectors of 

 that town and is in all our cabinets. A specimen taken at 

 Cheltenham, by Mr. Douglas, in July, 1853, was exhibited 

 at the ensuing meeting of the Entomological Society. 



Phragmat^cia Arundinis, Hubner (Zeuzera Arun- 

 dinis, Doubl.), was first recorded as British by Mr. Double- 

 day, in the Entomologist, page 156. It is figured and 

 described in Humphrey's and Westwood's British Moths, 

 vol. i. p. 49, pi. viii. fig. 7, 8. In 1848, two other speci- 

 mens were taken in the same locality, Holme Fen, as re- 

 corded by Mr. Doubleday, in the Zoologist for 1848, page 

 2236. In 1850, Mr. Doubleday writes in the Zoologist, page 

 2884, "This insect has occurred in great profusion in the 

 neighbourhood of Whittlesca-Mere this season. The larvae 



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