NEW BRITISH SPECIES IN 1855. 45 



Pterophorus plagiodactylus, Fischer v. R. 



Expands 9 lines. Very closely allied to P. bipunctidac- 

 tyhiSj but darker; the black streak in the anterior lobe of the 

 anterior wings is more strongly marked, and the costa be- 

 yond the middle is much clouded with dark fuscous. 



First discovered by Herr Mann, on the Alps, in July; 

 subsequently taken in Wales, in June and July, 1853, by 

 Mr. C. S. Gregson ; this season many specimens have been 

 taken in that locality, and also in Cumberland. 



RARE BRITISH SPECIES CAPTURED IN 1855. 



Colias Hyale; many specimens occurred this autumn 

 in the South. 



Deilephila Galii; the larvae have been met with in 

 various parts of the coast in August and September, fre- 

 quenting the sand hills on which the Galium verum grows ; 

 others have been found inland in gardens on fuchsias. 



Sphinx Convolvuli ; I have heard of the occurrence of 

 a single specimen at Teignmouth. 



Zeuzera JEsculi; was unusually common near London, 

 in July. 



Petasia nubeculosa (Ent. Annual, 1855, 1st Edit. p. 

 40; 2nd Edit. p. 62) ; a second specimen was taken by Mr. 

 Almond, at Rannoch, last April, from the bole of a birch. 



Ptilophora plumigera ; has again been bred from the 

 egg by the Rev. Bernard Smith. 



Lophopteryx cucullina, and carmelita ; both these 

 species have again been met with ; the larvaa of Cucullina in 

 Bucks, and the imago of Carmelita in woods near London. 

 Mr. Crewe also reared several of the former and Mr. Stevens 

 several of the latter species from the c^g. 



