RARE BRITISH SPECIES CAPTURED IN 1857. 101 



numbers in the North of Perthshire ; the little-bird system of 

 capture begins to be rather doubted (Int. ii. 20, 60). 



Heterogenea Asellus ; two specimens have been taken 

 in Epping Forest (Int. ii. 123). Mr. Doubleday had never 

 met with this species there. 



Cymatophora fluctuosa; this continues to occur in 

 the neighbourhood of Sheffield. 



Acronycta Alni ; has appeared, as usual, in several 

 breeding -cages, and has also been taken at sugar (Int. ii. 

 100, 101, 197.) 



Xylophasia scolopacina ; a new locality for this 

 insect is Barnstaple, where two were taken by Mr. G. F. 

 Mathews, flying over bramble-blossom, at the end of July. 

 Mr. Mathews saw several others, but mistook them for A. 

 gemina. 



Heliophobus hispida; upwards of a hundred specimens 

 were captured in September, near Plymouth. 



Luperixa Dumerilii; Mr. Bond met with a queer 

 Noctua at Deal, which is perhaps referable to this species. 



Miana Expolita ; this was taken in Ireland, at the 

 end of June, by Mr. N. Cooke and Mr. Burchell, in 

 Galway. 



TvENiocampa leucographa ; has occurred at Barn- 

 staple, North Devon, and near Ticehurst, in Sussex. 



Cerastis erythrocephala; one was taken at suo-ar, 

 November 5th, 1856, in a wood near Plymouth ; a cap- 

 ture near Weston-super-Mare has also been recorded (Int. 

 hi. 53). 



Dasycampa rubiginea; has occurred at Newnham in 

 Gloucester (Int. ii. 5; iii. 61); also at Exeter (Int. iii. 62) 

 and Barnstaple (Int. iii. 70). 



Hoporinia Croceago ; one was taken as far west as 

 Barnstaple, by Mr. G. F. Matthews, who found it on ivy. 



