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LEPIDOPTERA. 



Notes on New and Rare British Lepidoptera 

 (excepting Tineina) for 1873. 



By H. Guard Knaggs, M.D., F.L.S. 



On taking up mj pen, as usual at this period of the year, 

 for the purpose of reckoning up the doings of the past 

 season, it is rather perplexing to find that although three 

 Butterflies, a Bomhyx, two Noctuce, a Tortrix and an 

 Ephestia have been brought forward as British, I am under 

 the painful necessity of rejecting more than half the number. 

 Everybody who knows my supposed 'penchant for swelling 

 out the list of our Lepidoptera, will understand the feelings 

 of mortification with which, under these circumstances, I feel 

 myself compelled to forego this pleasure. I am afraid our 

 readers must content themselves with the following addi- 

 tions : — 



Thalpochares paula^ Hiibner ; 

 Halonota grandcevana, Zeller ; 

 Ephestia Roxburghii, Gregson ; 

 and even the last named appears, from all descriptions, to 

 be a great deal too closely allied to E. interpunctella, to be 

 pleasant. 



Meteorologically speaking, the year has not been bad, 

 especially as compared with 1872, but the captures have been 



