86 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Epunda Lichenea, Hiibner ; first taken in this country 

 by Mrs. Vines, in the New Forest, in the autumn of 1847, 

 and first enumerated as British in Doubleday's Catalogue, 

 page 10; subsequently it occurred on the Lancashire coast, 

 " nearly 100 specimens of this insect having been taken at 

 New Brighton " in September, 1850, as recorded by Mr. 

 Robson in the Zoologist for 1850, page 2958. It has also 

 occurred in plenty in the Isle of Wight. 



Acronycta Myric-E, Guenee ; this species, which is in 

 our lists as Acronycta Euphorbice, is first recorded as being 

 taken in this country by Mr. Weaver in the Zoologist for 

 1846, page 1439—" from May 27th to June 15th, at rest on 

 rocks in open moors;" it has since been taken by nearly 

 every collector who has penetrated into Perthshire during 

 the season, and is in most of our collections. It is described 

 by Guenee in his " Histoire Naturelle des Noctuelites," 

 being placed immediately after Acronycta Euphorbia, 

 Euphrasia and abscondita. Guenee says — " This pretty 

 Acronycta appears to me very distinct from the allied 

 species." The larva feeds on Myrica gale and Salix 

 caprcea. 



Xanthia gilvago, W. V. ; first described and recorded 

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

 vol. i. p. 254, with the remark — "The true gilvago is now 

 for the first time introduced into the British lists, on the 

 authority of J. F. Stephens, Esq., who has received it from 

 the neighbourhood of Doncaster, where it was captured last 

 September in some plenty by the Rev. Mr. Preston," [or, 

 more correctly, by his friend, Mr. Hugh Reid.] It has 

 since been repeatedly taken in the same locality, and also in 

 some other parts of Yorkshire, and is now distributed in most 

 collections. Guenee says — " It is very common in France, 

 the larva feeding on the seeds of the elm." A species (Xa?i- 

 thia ocellaris) very closely allied to it, and only recently dis- 



