32 LEPIDOPTERA. 



according to Treitschke, feeds on various low plants, espe- 

 cially the dandelion, and is full grown in April. 



Graphiphora sobrina, Boisduval ; thus recorded in the 

 Proceedings of the Entomological Society for November, 

 1853 — " Mr. Edwin Shepherd exhibited a new British moth, 

 Noctua sobrina, H.-SchafFer, taken this season in Perth- 

 shire by Mr. Weaver." Several specimens have been taken 

 in Scotland during the past season. It is not a common 

 species on the Continent ; Guenee describes the larva, but 

 adds — " I know not on what plant it lives." 



[Cerastia leucographa, Hiibner (Noctua leucographa, 

 Doubleday). The capture of this species is recorded by Mr. 

 Robert Cook in the Zoologist for 1845, page 945. Mr. Cook 

 captured his specimen near York; it has also been taken 

 rather freely at Doncaster, and has occurred near Cocker- 

 mouth ; it has occurred likewise in the south of England, 

 having been taken at Leith Hill, near Dorking, and at Great 

 Marlow, Bucks. It appears about the middle of March, 

 frequenting the sallows when in blossom.] 



Orthosia opima, Hiibner (T<z?iiocampa opima,~Do\ib\.) ; 

 first recorded as British by Mr. Newman in the Zoologist 

 for 1845, page 844; and at the page 1006 of the same 

 volume Mr. Allis observes — " this insect was first taken at 

 York in 1842, in which year I captured two specimens upon 

 sallow blossoms, and another was taken by Mr. Cook ; we also 

 with met it the two following years, but not in any plenty." 

 It has since been taken very freely at Doncaster; and Mr. 

 Evans, of that place, gave a description of the larva in the 

 Zoologist for 1846, page 1227. The insect is now common 

 in all collections. 



Orthosia congener, Hiibner; thus noticed by Mr. 

 Doubleday in the Zoologist for 1843, page 332—" The in- 

 sect taken at York by my friend Thomas H. Allis, and 

 supposed to be Apamea unanimis, is Orthosia congener of 



