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likewise indistinct spot 4, but this is only united with 2 along 

 the middle rib, on which alone 3 is joined to 5. 



Mann's Nubigena are Alpine specimens of Minos. 

 [The synonymy given in the Index of Vol. II. is as fol- 

 lows : — ] 



Minos {Zygcena), W. V. ; Fr., n. B. 86; Tr., H., 8 ; H.-S., 

 13, 16, p. 30. 

 „ Seringii, Zeller. 

 „ Pluto, Bdv., 52. 

 ,, Nubigena, Mann, in litt. 



„ PilusellcB, Esp., t. 24 ; Polygalce, Esp., t. 34, 3, 

 ,, PurpuralU (Pyral.), Miiller. 

 „ ScabioscR, F. 

 „ Vicice, Lang. 



ZYG^NA MINOS. 



[By E. Newman, in the Zoologist, pp. 7565 and 7676, published 1861.] 

 Occurrence of Zygcena Acliillece in Ireland. It is a 

 dangerous thing to write about our British Zygcence : if any 

 one incline to take up the genus I heartily wish him well 

 through it. It is an equally dangerous thing to introduce a 

 new species on the faith of a single specimen ; but I will 

 lisk both these dangers. About a month since, Mr. Birchall 

 sent me a single specimen of a Zygcena taken by himself in 

 the West of Ireland. I could not make it out, as it presented 

 a combination of characters which do not exist in any other 

 species. After a w^hile I submitted it to Mr. Douhleday, 

 who pronounced no opinion, but, with his invariable 

 promptitude and kindness, sent me a pair of continental spe- 

 cimens of Zygcena Achillece, for the purpose of comparison, 

 and the new comer proved to be identical with that conti- 

 nental species. It may at once be distinguished from every 



