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LEPIDOPTERA. 



(By the Editor.) 



NEW BRITISH SPECIES IN 1855. 



As if in direct defiance of the assertion in u Glaucus," that 

 "our home Entomologists are spending their time now, per- 

 force, in verifying a few obscure species, and bemoaning 

 themselves, like Alexander, that there are no more worlds 

 left to conquer," our list of novelties in this order is rather 

 a startling one. 



Two new Sphinges (and we were told last January that we 

 should not get a new Sphinx every year), or it maybe more 

 correct to call one of them an old Sjjhinx revived ; a new 

 Noctua, congeneric with the angle-shades, and nearly as 

 large ; two new Geometry, which we cannot possibly suspect 

 to have been smuggled over from the Continent, as they seem 

 to be great rarities there; anew Pyralis; anew Chilo, of 

 which it is true I saw a specimen the previous year, but my 

 dictum was it was probably American— now it is turning up 

 not only here but in Germany, so wherever it may have 

 emigrated from, it appears determined to make good a settle- 

 ment; three new Tortrices, several new Tineina and two 

 new Plumes. 



Trochilium scoliasforme. Coleophora squamosella. 



chrysidiforme. sicciiblia. 



Phlogophora empyrea. Asychna profugella. 



Dosithea eburnata. Elachista flavicomella. 



circuitaria. Lithocolletis Breiniella. 



Botys decrepitalis. Nepticula cryptella. 

 Chilo obtusellus. betulicola. 



Mixodia Hawkerana. continuella. 



Retinia duplana. Alnetella. 



Argyrolepia maritimana. Pterophorus Zetterstedtii. 

 Cleodora striatella. plagiodactylus. 



