40 LEPIDOPTERA. 



under the name of Eupisteria picearia — "This species, 

 which is new to Britain, was taken by Mr. Hodgkinson in 

 Perthshire." It has since been several times taken in Scot- 

 land. At the Meeting of the Entomological Society in June, 

 1851 — " Mr. Stevens exhibited fine specimens of Eupisteria 

 Carhonaria, recently taken in Perthshire by Mr. Weaver." 



Geometra Alniaria, Lin. ; a single specimen, taken at 

 the North Foreland lighthouse, is in the collection of Mr. 

 Edwin Shepherd; it is first enumerated as British in Dou- 

 bleday's Catalogue, at page 15. 



Tephronia corticaria, W. V. ; first enumerated as 

 British in Doubleday's Catalogue, at page 17 ; a specimen 

 is in the collection of the British Museum, ticketed by Dr. 

 Leach as having been taken by him at Tenby. 



Electra sagittata, Fab. ; first noticed as British by 

 Mr. Doubleday in the Zoologist for 1848, page 2236— " A 

 single example of this pretty species was obtained last sea- 

 son near Peterborough, but I believe it was not in very good 

 condition. A splendid female was sent to me from the same 

 neighbourhood this week (July 15th, 1848)." A specimen 

 was exhibited by Mr. Bond at the meeting of the Entomo- 

 logical Society in August, 1849. In the years 1853 and 

 1854, many specimens occurred in the fens of Huntingdon- 

 shire and Cambridgeshire, and the insect is now in most 

 collections. 



Venusia Cambrica, Curtis; first described and figured 

 by Curtis in his British Entomology, folio 759, in 1839. 

 The insect continued rare for many years, but has now been 

 taken rather freely in several parts of the north of England, 

 and is in most collections. It is described and figured in 

 Humphrey's and Westwood's British Moths, vol. ii. p. 35, 

 pi. lxiii. fig. 15. In Doubleday's Catalogue it stands as 

 Coremia erutaria. 



Ypsipetes ruberata, Freyer, long confounded with 



