38 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Zoologist for 1847, page 1881. Mr. Bond met with it at 

 Yaxley in August, " sparingly at sugar ;" it has since been 

 taken in some plenty at Yaxley and Whittlesea, and is in 

 most collections. 



Nonagria neurica, Hubner; likewise first recorded as 

 being taken in this country by Mr. Bond at page 1881 of 

 the Zoologist for 1847 ; subsequently taken in some plenty at 

 Whittlesea-Mere, and now in most collections. 



Nonagria Cannae, Och.; first enumerated as British in 

 Doubleday's Catalogue at page 7. It was first taken in 1846 

 by Mr. English ; since then it has been freely bred by the 

 collectors at Yaxley. 



Cucullia Lychnitis, Rambur; first recorded as British 

 by Mr. Stevens in the Zoologist for 1845 at page 1142 — 

 " I have annually, for the last three or four seasons, obtained 

 the caterpillars of this rare shark from off the leaves and 

 flowers of the mullein found in a chalk-pit at Arundel, in 

 Sussex." The larva feeds in August and September, whereas 

 that of C. Verbasci feeds in June and July. As the insect 

 is still scarce in collections it may be well to bear this cir- 

 cumstance in mind. 



Cloantha perspicillaris, Lin. ; a single specimen 

 taken by the late Mr. Paget near Yarmouth, the capture of 

 which is recorded in the Entomologist, June, 1841, page 128, 

 is in the collection of Mr. Doubleday. The species is figured 

 and described in Humphrey's and We>twood's British Moths, 

 vol. i. p. 230, pi. li. fig. 1. According to Guenee the species 

 is widely dispersed on the Continent, but " never very abun- 

 dant." " The larva feeds in July and August on Hyperi- 

 cum." 



Heliothis armigera, Hubner ; first recorded as British 

 by Mr. Edleston in the Zoologist for 1843, page 260— "a 

 beautiful female specimen having been taken in September, 

 1840, off the door of an outhouse belonging to my friend 



