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LEPIDOPTERA. 



New British Species and Captures of Rarities in 

 1862. 



(By the Editor.) 



The past season has undoubtedly been the Tvorst for Ento- 

 mology in our experience. Captures and observations have 

 been equally scanty, and the season has been as unprofitable 

 on the Continent as in the British Isles. The weather is, no 

 doubt, much to blame for this ; and we observe, indeed, that 

 the Registrar-General for Scotland reports that the amount 

 of sunshine in the summer was almost the least ever known, 

 and the amount of cloud the greatest. The supply of Tineina 

 larvae received has been most lamentable; and the special 

 larva required for the completion of vol. 8 of the ** Natural 

 History of the Tineina" {Gracilaria ImperialeUa) has not 

 reached us. The prospect is not a cheerful one; but '* after 

 the blackest night comes the dawn." 



The only novelties we have to mention are one Noctiia, 

 Toxocampa Craccce, and one Tinea, Gelechia Sangiella — 

 a considerable falling off from our reports in former years. 

 The new EupithecicB have been already noticed by Mr. 

 Harpur Crewe {^ante, p. 116). It is true that we have not 

 had throughout the season the " Entomologist's Weekly 

 Intelligencer," as in the six previous summers, giving weekly 



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