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probable a contingency as some might be disposed to imagine ; 

 Chrysoplianus Dispar appears actually to have ceased to 

 inhabit these islands ; Polyommatus Acis, if not altogether 

 extinct, seems very nearly so ; the extinction of Polyommatus 

 Avion and Pamphila Actceon is one of those facts, which 

 we may safely prophesy as certain to come to pass at no very 

 distant day. It must be borne in mind, that now-a-days 

 species, which are at all rare or local, are systematically 

 caught and pinned with an unrelenting ardour, such as our 

 butterflies of yore never experienced. The captures of the 

 Purple Emperor this year must pretty nearly have doubled 

 the number of cabinet specimens in the country : insects, it is 

 true, are prolific, but systematic pursuit in all the stages of 

 their existence must eventually thin their numbers ; we hope 

 the rising generation will remember this, and not rashly 

 hasten forward the day of " the last British butterfly." 



Our list of novelties includes only two of the Macro- 

 Lepidoptera, belonging to the Geometrina (and one of these, 

 it is true, may be only an accidental visitor, and as much an 

 indigenous British animal as the tiger which lately peram- 

 bulated Ratcliffe Highway), and thirteen Micro-Lepidopr era; 

 one of which is a Tortrix, and a startling addition of our 

 Fauna, eleven are Tineina, and one is a Pterophorus. 



The following is the list of them : — 



Geometrina. Coleophora ibipennella. 

 Aspilates Sacraria. » apicella. 



Eupithecia Helveticaria. . „ . chalcogrammella. 



m Tischeria angusticollella. 



. Tortricina. Nepticula Myrtillella. 

 Sciaphila cinctana. Poterii. 



m ,, Glutinosae. 



Tineixa. •" 



„ arcuata. 

 Depressana bipunctosa. 



Gelechia albipalpella. Pterophorina. 



„ arundinetella. Pterophorus Loewii. 



