NEW BRITISH SPECIES si:n'ce 1835. 39 



Mr. John Thomas, of Oldfield Lane, Salford, who liberally 

 added it to my cabinet." A specimen taken near Mickleham 

 is in the collection of Mr. Bedell, and other specimens have 

 been taken in various localities. 



Heliothis scutosa, W. V. ; first recorded as British by 

 Curtis, who figures" and describes it in his British Entomo- 

 logy, folio 595 ; the specimen from the collection of Mr. 

 Heysham, " was taken on the banks of the river Caldew, a 

 little below the village of Dalston, in July, 1835." 



I am not aware of any specimens having occurred sub- 

 sequently. According to Freyer, the larva feeds on Arte- 

 misia campestris. 



Ophiodes lunaris, W. V. ; first enumerated as British 

 in Doubleday's Catalogue, page 11 ; a single specimen was 

 taken by Captain Chawner in Hampshire. Of this species 

 Guenee says, "common in dry woods throughout Europe 

 in May." "The larva feeds in July on oak." 



Dasydia torvaria, Hubner ; thus noticed at page 678, 

 vol. ii., of Humphrey's and Westwood's British Moths — 

 " Many years ago my friend Templeton showed me a black 

 Geometrideous moth, much larger than 31. Cheer ophyllata, 

 which he had captured on one of the mountains in Ireland. 

 I have seen nothing like the insect in any collection that 

 I have examined." In Stephens's Museum Catalogue this 

 specimen is enumerated as Dasydia torvaria. At the meet- 

 ing of the Entomological Society in November, 1853, " Mr. 

 Westwood exhibited his original sketch of a moth taken at 

 Ballymena, in Ireland, by Mr. Templeton ; Mr. Westwood 

 was now of opinion, from reference to Duponchel's figure 

 and description, that it was Cleogene Peletieraria ;" whether 

 Mr. Stephens or Mr. Westwood is correct in the name given 

 for this species, future observation must decide. 



Eupisteria Carbonaria, Lin. ; first noticed as British 

 by Mr. Doubleday in the Zoologist for 1847, page 1883, 



