110 LEPIDOPTERA. \ 



Mr. Harpur Crewe's description of the larva (which also< 

 first appeared in the " Zoologist") will be found in another^ 

 page of the present volume. 



CiDARiA Reticulata, Wiener Verzeichniss. | 



The occurrence of this insect is announced in the '' Zoolo- 

 gist," p. 7361, by Mr. Henry Doubleday. ''Three speci-- 

 mens of this pretty and very distinct species were taken in* 

 August, 1856, on the border of one of the Lakes, by my^ 

 friend Thomas H. Allis." One of these specimens was^ 

 exhibited at the February Meeting of the Entomological I 

 Society of London. I 



Mr. Hodgkinson has noticed (Intell. ix. p. 179) that other^ 

 specimens were captured at the same time, and distributed^ 

 in collections as the " second brood of Silacearia.'' 



The species, though widely distributed on the Continent,] 

 is scarce, and the larva is unknown. It occurs in the Alps, 

 the Pyrenees, and in Hungary. 



Crambus Ocellea, Haworth. 

 This insect had been erased from our lists. Haworth, in ; 

 1812, introduced it in his " Lepidoptera Britannica" as^ 

 Palparia ocellea (the Necklace Veneer), with the observa-| 

 tion: ''This was purchased of a collector, who says it was | 

 caught in a garden in the suburbs of London, extremely] 

 early in the spring season." This specimen, now in the; 

 collection of the British Museum, has remained unique till I 

 now. Lately, in a box of insects sent for determination, 1 1 

 found, to ray surprise, a specimen of this species, which hasj 

 not yet been found on the Continent, though it belongs to a^ 

 group which appear to have their home on the shores of the i 

 Mediterranean. On inquiry as to where this specimen had| 

 been captured, I learnt that it occurred in Glamorganshire, i 



