62 LEPIDOPTERA. 



THE NEW BRITISH SPECIES IN 1854. 



ANTHROCERA MINOS, W. V. ; (see frontispiece, 

 fig. 1*); first recorded as British in the Zoologist for last 

 January, page 4180, by Mr. Newman — " I am informed by 

 my friend, Mr. Thomas H. Allis, that about a dozen specimens 

 of Zyqcena Minos were taken last summer on the west coast 

 of Ireland, by Henry Milner, Esq., of Nunappleton, near 

 York." On the 27th of last June, Mr. A. G. More sent me 

 a number of specimens for distribution among the members 

 of the Entomological Society ; and in his letter dated from 

 Ardrahan, he says, "the Anthrocera is quite plentiful about 

 here, but the weather has been so bad, that I have found some 

 difficulty in procuring really good specimens. It appears 

 about a fortnight earlier than the spotted species (Filipen- 

 dulce). I first captured it in 1851, but did not recognize its 

 value until I saw some of Mr. Milner's specimens at Don- 

 caster. I believe his locality was in Clare, and mine is in 

 Gahvay, which shows the range of the species may be 

 somewhat extensive in these parts." This is readily distin- 

 guished from our other British species, the anterior wings 

 having three elongate red marks, and not round spots ; on 

 the Continent several species are marked in this way, and 

 it is very possible some of these may be found in this country. 

 I mention this to show, that if a collector meets with an 

 Anthrocera with the three elongate red marks, it does not 

 follow, as a matter of course, that it will be Minos. 



PETASIA NUBECULOSA, Esper. A specimen of 

 this, taken by Mr. Cooper at Rannoch last spring, is in the 



* Expands \\ inch : the figure is slightly magnified. 



