78 LEPIDOPTEEA. 



Plusia Interrogationis. — Widely distributed in Europe, 

 but always in Britain a northern species. 



Phothedes Captiuncula {Miana expolita). — Our British 

 specimens are more of a uniform grey than the continental 

 examples; it has a wide range in the mountainous parts of 

 Europe. What are the true affinities of this species ? with 

 Miana or with Erastria? Surely the larva would decide 

 this. The Irish specimens are said to differ slightly, and 

 apjDarently approach the continental ones : it is rather re- 

 markable that this is the only insect of all here noticed as 

 Alpine which has not been detected in Rannoch. 



Schrankia turfosalis. — This insect, though confined to 

 the north of Great Britain, yet curiously has a wider distri- 

 bution on the Continent than either of our Hypenodes, both 

 of which are rarities there. 



Geometry. — Nyssia Lapponaria, perhaps a boreal and 

 Alpine variety o^ Pomonaria ; this last has a tolerably wide 

 distribution, and all know that there is some doubt whether 

 it has not been taken in Britain; Lapponaria, of which the 

 readers of the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine remember 

 the capture at Rannoch last spring, has, with this exception, 

 been taken only in Lapland and in the Upper Engadine. 



Dasydia Obfuscata, Psodos Coracina {trepidata\ Ve- 

 nusia Camhrica, Acidalia Fumata, Fidonia Carbonaria, 

 and Fidonia Brunneata, are all met with in Rannoch, and 

 all Alpine as well as boreal in their distribution in Europe. 



Oporabia Filigrammaria.— This doubtful species is also 

 of doubtful European distribution; it is perhaps unknown 

 out of England. 



Larentia CcBsiata and L. Flavicinctata are both boreal 

 and Alpine, but L. Salicata is Alpine only. The readers of 

 the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine will remember that 

 Mr. Barrett has recorded the appearance of this species in 



