NEW BRITISH SPECIES SINCE 1835. 29 



was observed by the Rev. Jos. Greene, in Gloucestershire, 

 on hazel, as recorded in the Zoologist for 1852, page 3494. 



Gluphisia crenata, Esper; first recorded as British 

 by Mr. Doubleday, in the Entomologist, page 156—" Cha- 

 onia crenata : the first British specimen of this insect was 

 taken at Ongar Park Wood, in June, 1839, and a second 

 in the same place, in June of the present year. Both speci- 

 mens were females." The species is described and figured 

 in Humphrey's and Westwood's British Moths, vol. i. p. 73, 

 pi. xiv. fig. 15. A specimen reared by the Rev. Jos. Greene, 

 from a larva found on a poplar, near Halton, Bucks, on the 

 18th of August, 1853, was exhibited at the meeting of the 

 Entomological Society, in April last. 



Gastropacha ilicifolia, Lin. This insect had lone: 

 been a reputed British species, and is described and figured 

 in Humphrey's and Westwood's British Moths, vol. i. p. 61, 

 pi. xii. fig. 8; but no British specimen had been seen by any 

 of the Entomologists of the present day, till in 1851, Mr. 

 Atkinson met with a specimen at Cannoch Chase, May 17th, 

 as recorded by him in the Zoologist for 1852, page 3396 : 

 " It was clinging to a dead sprig of heather, apparently but 

 lately emerged from the pupa. From its great resemblance 

 to a withered leaf, it would not probably have caught my 

 eye, had I not luckily knelt down within a few inches of it, to 

 pin a small Turtrix. This fine addition to our Bombyces 

 was announced at the June meeting of the Entomological 

 Society, and exhibited at the subsequent one in July." The 

 insect has also been bred by [Mr. W. Green, of Eccleshall 

 Road, Sheffield,] but it is still in very few collections. Ac- 

 cording to Treitschke, the larva feeds from June to August, 

 on sallow and bilberry. 



Sterrhopteryx opacella, H.-S. ; discovered in the 

 New Forest, by Mr. Weaver, who found the larvae in the 

 summer of 1848, as recorded by Mr. Newman in the Zoo- 



