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arunclineta of Schmidt; then, when arundineta was proved 

 identical with the neurica of Doubleday's Catalogue, it 

 naturally became the true neurica of Hiibner ; and that 

 failing also, it subsided in due course into a variety of 

 something or other : indeed, T have heard it whispered, that 

 it might even be Leucania comma in disguise. Now, how- 

 ever, Mr. King's discovery sets at rest these surmises, and 

 there can be no doubt, in the mind of the most sceptical, that 

 breviUneay Fenn. is a species abundantly distinct from any 

 other described Nonagyna. Mr. King's captures also show 

 us that the species is variable; for example, while the ground- 

 colour appears to vary from fawn-colour to dark-brown, the 

 markings are very erratic, the characteristic basal streak 

 from which the insect takes its name being in some cases 

 almost obsolete. A figure of this interesting Noiiagria 

 (copied from the original specimen which was captured at 

 Ranworth) will be found in the " Annual" for 1865, and a 

 full description of it in the " Entomologist's Monthly Maga- 

 zine," vol. i. p. 107. A few Acronycta alni have turned 

 up as usual ; one, a fine imago, was secured in the London 

 district at Bishop's Wood, Hampstead. Several Leucania 

 alhipuncta have been taken at sugar at Folkestone, and an 

 example is also stated to have made its appearance at Can- 

 terbury. Nonagria elymi is recorded from Cleethorpes and 

 South Shields. For Pachetra leucophcea new localities have 

 been found, namely, Tunbridge and Folkestone, this latter 

 disposing of the Pachetra sp. ? of my Folkestone list ; for 

 although Mr. Ullyett's specimen differs in several respects 

 from any P. leucophcsa that has come under my notice, both 

 in the character of the stigmata, length of antennae, &c., it 

 must, for the present, be accepted as of that species. A few 

 Tripha^na subsequa have occurred in Morayshire and else- 

 where. A third British Pachnohia alpina has fallen to 



