114 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Callimorpha Hera, Linne (Eiit. Mo. Mag. viii., p. 87). 



Mr. D'Orville of Alphington thus records his first ac- 

 quaintance with this handsome species, which is too well 

 known to need any description. 



" On the 14th instant (August, 1871), about 9 p.m., when 

 taking my usual evening round to my sugared trees and 

 plants, my attention was suddenly arrested by the sight of 

 something brightly coloured, like a bright purple and yellow- 

 striped petal of a tulip, lying flat on a sugared corymb of 

 Tanacetum vulgare; and bringing my bull's eye to bear 

 upon it, it suddenly, to my dismay, moved and took wing; 

 in an instant, however, my net was ready, and the beautiful 

 creature became my prisoner." 



There can be no doubt but that Hera ought to have been 

 admitted to our lists long ago, for many well authenticated 

 captures of it must have been made. I could say a good 

 deal in the way of i^ro and con in the matter, but think it 

 better to refrain from doing so. 



TiENiocAMPA GOTHiciNA, H.-S. (Ent. Mo. Mag. vol. vii., 

 p. 39). 



Mr. George Norman, of Forres, records the occurrence in 

 Morayshire, at sallow bloom, in the early spring, of this 

 somewhat doubtful species. M. Guenee, it is true, gives it as 

 distinct from T. gothica, but admits that he has never seen 

 a specimen. Dr. Herrich-Schaffer, of course, considers it a 

 good species, but Dr. Staudinger sinks it as a variety of 

 T. gothicay Lin., whether rightly or not I cannot say. 



Gothicina differs from gothica in wanting the black mark- 

 ing between the stigmata, in having the stigmata delicately 

 outlined with yellow, and also in being paler in colour than 

 gothica. 



