36 LEPIDOPTERA. 



convolvuli is conspicuous by the record of a single specimen 

 from Dulwicli (it ought to haA^e occurred by hundreds, if the 

 conditions which favoured the a|:)pearance of V. antiopa 

 were also congenial to it, as they appeared to be in 1 846) ; 

 of C. celerio a solitary example has come to light; D. livor- 

 inca and Sesia asihfor?nis have been exhibited at the Ento- 

 mological Society; JVola albula has turned up near Dartford : 

 L. caniola at Bolthead, so Mr. Bignell informs me; S.fagi 

 has been particularly scarce this season; a few A. alni have 

 occurred in widely separated localities, most of the captures 

 being as usual larvae; two examples of Leucania l-album 

 have been secured at Settlebourne; Ranworth has produced 

 K. CanncB, N. brevilinea and Arundineta ; and Cambridge 

 has yielded Helmanni; L. exigua has been attracted to the 

 light of the city lamps; X. co?ispicilla?^is has been noticed in 

 Gloucestershire; two examples of -P. lencophea ha.Ye visited 

 sugar at Canterbury; D. rublginea has been taken in Surrey; 

 H. peltigera in the larval state at Plymouth; P. interroga- 

 fionis in Ireland; P. orichalcea near Sherbourne; G. erythro- 

 cephala at Darenth ; 3Iicra parva from the Isle of Wight, 

 all seem worthy of notice; while C.fraxmi is recorded from 

 Canterbury, Ipswich, Wisbeach and Shrewsbury; M. alter- 

 nata has been bred by Mr. Bignell, as has also P. albarieUa 

 (Daviselhis), from larvse discovered by Mr. Davis in the Isle 

 of Wight, and a single specimen of this interesting species 

 has been detected by Mr. Moore in the New Forest; lastly, 

 two examples of Agrotera nemoralis, captured at Abbot's 

 Wood, Sussex, by Mr. J. Jenner Weir, have been exhibited 

 at the Entomological Society. 



The chief varieties which have been noticed during the 

 past season may be thus enumerated: —A melanic Arge 

 Galatea; Va?iessa lo, with the black costal spot coalescing 

 with the eye-like spot on the fore-wings, and the eye of the 



