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Nortli Devon. This is one of those strange instances where 

 an insect Alpine in Europe and boreal in England, yet 

 retains some little lingering outpost to prove how it came 

 to us. Acidalia Fumata in a similar way is found on Dart- 

 moor in Devonshire, where it was taken by my late brother 

 and I believe by Mr. S. Stevens. I have still one bad speci- 

 men from the locality; it differs from Scotch examples in the 

 more acuminate fore-wings, but in no other essential particular. 



Emmelesia Minorata {Ericetata)^ AdcBquata {Blandiatd) 

 and Coremia Munitata are all Alpine and boreal. 



PJiihalapteryx lapidata occurs in Perthshire and in 

 Sutherlandshire, &c., and even in Ireland ; it has a wide 

 European distribution. 



Carsia 'paludata, var. imbufata. — This insect under its 

 typical form has a wide P^uropean range. 



Lygris reticulata, though not mentioned in this list, was 

 recorded by Mr. Meek as captured in Rannoch. 



Pyralides. — Scopula Alpitialis.— Is notour species Sc. 

 Jjliginosalis ? or are the two only varieties of each other ? 

 It is Alpine, and Sc. decrepitalis Alpine and boreal in its 

 distribution. 



Scoparia Atomalis is, as far as is known, British only, and 

 the same may be said of AIpi?ia, and the newly discovered 

 species Scotica. 



S. Murana is Alpine and boreal, but gracilalis is con- 

 fined to Scotland and Norway. 



Of the genus Crambus, Ericellus, Myelins, Margaritellus 

 and furcatellus are found both in Central and Northern 

 Europe ; latistrius is hardly a northern species, but is 

 widely distributed in our island; it is found in Perthshire, 

 and my own specimens are from Norfolk and South Devon; 

 its European distribution is in Western France and Livonia. 



This list has thus given me the opportunity of passing in 



