NEW BRITISH SPECIES SINCE 1835. 47 



Peronea Lipsiana, W. V. ; first enumerated as British 

 in Doubleday's Catalogue, at page 21, as a doubtful variety 

 of P. rufana; in the past season, Mr. Bouchard bred a 

 series of this insect, and had not a single rufana among 

 them. 



Peronea Caledoniana, Bentley ; first enumerated as 

 British in Doubleday's Catalogue, at page 22 ; it is described 

 in the Appendix to Stephens's Museum Catalogue. I have 

 frequently taken it on bo££v moors in the south of Scot- 

 land ; its small size readily distinguishes it from the allied 

 species. 



Peronea permutana, Dup. ; first recorded as British 

 by Mr. Cooke in the Zoologist for 1848, page 2271—" On 

 the 13th of August, I took three specimens of this insect on 

 the wing, at dawn of day, at New Brighton, flying over a 

 species of wild rose which grows there in profusion." It 

 has since been taken and bred in profusion in the same loca- 

 lity, and has also been met with plentifully on Barnes Com- 

 mon. It is extremely like the tor ana variety of variegana. 



Paramesia Shepherdana, Stephens; first enumerated 

 and described by Stephens in the Museum Catalogue ; the 

 locality there given is, however, erroneous, as mentioned by 

 Mr. Doubleday in the Zoologist for 1852, page 3583. " Mr. 

 Shepherd met with larvae in the fens of Cambridgeshire; it 

 feeds upon the meadow-sweet, (Spircea TJlmaria)" Mr. 

 Doubleday now writes me, that it feeds upon Eupatorium 

 Cannabinum, and not upon Spircea. 



Dictyopteryx uliginosana, Bentley; first recorded, 

 described and figured in Humphrey's and Westwood's 

 British Moths, vol. ii. p. 139, pi. lxxxvi. fig. 12. "Two 

 specimens were taken at Whittlesea-Mere in July, 1824, by 

 Mr. Bentley, in whose cabinet they are preserved." I know 

 of no recent specimens. 



ANTiTHESiACAPR^EANA,Hiibner; first recorded as British 



