RARE BRITISH SPECIES CAPTURED IN I860. 101 



this season, near Brandon, in Suffolk, were exhibited by 

 Mr. Warinf^ at the August Meeting of the Entomological 

 Society of London (Zoologist, 7161). 



AciDALiA CoNTiGUARiA ; of this iuscct (figured in the 

 Entomologist's Annual for 1856 under the name of Dosithea 

 Eburnata) a specimen was taken on the 8th of August last 

 bv Mr. Thomas Hamie. It was sittino; on the wall on Ban- 

 gor New Road, about half way between Conway and the 

 large rock that projects out into the Irish Sea, opposite 

 Puffin Island (Intelligencer, ix. p. 3). 



LiTHOSTEGE NiVEARiA ; a bcautiful female of this species 

 taken at Brandon, in Suffolk, this season, was exhibited by 

 Mr. Waring at the August Meeting of the Entomological 

 Society of London (Zoologist, 7161 }. 



Herminia derivalis ; Mr. Healy has recorded the 

 capture, June 12th, 1859, of a specimen of this insect; it 

 was beat out of a beech tree in Epping Forest, near the 

 King's Oak (InteUigencer, vii. p. 188). 



Sophroxia emortualis; on the 12th of July last the 

 Rev. Mr. Birks took a fine female of this species (Int. ix. 

 p. 28). 



Agrotera xemoralis; Mr. Porter took a specimen of 

 this insect in May last at Woedsdale, near Battle (Int. viii. 

 p. 91). 



DiASEMiA LiTERALis; Mr. Reading has met with this 

 insect near Plymouth. Mr. Reading writes in the Intelli- 

 gencer (vol. ix. p. 18) : '^ This species has occurred near 

 Plymouth this year at two very distinct periods, viz. in 

 June and September, which makes it appear as though the 

 species were double-brooded, but not having visited the place 

 where it appeared in the intermediate months, I have no fur- 

 ther proof of its double-broodedness than the seeing and 

 capturing it at the times mentioned. I took about two dozen 



