82 LEPIDOPTEllA. 



at once forwarded them to my friend Mr. Doubleday, who, 

 while admitting their distinctness, said that nothing could be 

 done without a full authentic account of their capture. This 

 I was unable to obtain. Mr. Birchall could state nothing 

 more definite than that " he believed he bought them of 

 Harding," — and here the matter dropped. These specimens, 

 however, remained separated from ockrata in my collection 

 up to the time that I disposed of it, when I gave one of the 

 examples to my friend Mr. Vaughan, at the same time telling 

 him that it would be sure to turn up some day as a species 

 new to us — my ground for beheving this was their unmis- 

 takable British set, gilt No. 10 pins, if I rightly remember, 

 having been used for the purpose. 



Mr. Vaughan was not long in discovering authenticated 

 specimens captured near Red Hill, Surrey, respectively on 

 Aug. 4th, 1869, by Mr. Walter Weston, and by Mr. Sydney 

 Webb in 1865. These Mr. Vaughan brought forward in 

 '• The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine" (vol. vii. p. 138), 

 as the "true ockrata, Scop., and new to our lists." 



The following translations respecting the distinguishing 

 characters of Fischer von Roslerstamm's perochraria and 

 ochrariay S. V., have been kindly furnished to me by 

 Mr. Stainton, and will be read with interest. 



Fischer von Roslerstamm on Acidalta perochraria and 

 OCHRARIA [published in 1838]. 



ACIDALIA PEROCHRARIA, Fischcr V. R. 



Tab. 49, fig. a-g. 

 Freyer, Neuere Beit. I., tab. QQ, fig. 3 (nicht 1 & 2), 



s. 123, ochrearia, var. 

 Alls ochraceisy femince ijallidiorihus, strigis t7'ibns ohscu- 



