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in the beginning of August at a spot bordering on Romnev 

 Marsh. Now, if Mr. Parrj had only stated that he had 

 captured his prizes in the fourth and not in the fifth quarter 

 of this mundane sphere, no one would have thought corrobo- 

 rative evidence necessary : but, in the present state of the 

 public mind on the subject of sophistication, it takes a good 

 deal to convince us as to the genuineness of any article, 

 more particularly if it happens to hail from the State of 

 New York. 



NEW BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA IN 1873. 



Thalpochares PAULA, Hllhner. 



At page 19, vol. x., of the "Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine," Mr. C. G. Barrett brings forward as new to 

 Britain this pretty little Noctua^ on the strength of a speci- 

 men captured by Mr. Moore in the Isle of Wight, backed 

 up by two specimens in the cabinet of the Rev. Henry 

 Burney ; one of the latter having been obtained from the 

 collection of the late Mr. Carter of Manchester, the other 

 believed to have been taken by a schoolboy who used to 

 collect several years ago during his holidays on the south 

 coast. 



Mr. Moore made his capture in an open cornfield close to 

 the cliffs at Freshwater, and, considering it a Tortrix at the 

 time, "took little notice of it" [worse luck !], but placed it 

 along with his unset insects, from amongst which, on his 

 return home, a friend (Mr. Meek, I believe) at once picked 

 it out, and suggested that it was Micra parva, under which 

 name, after being relaxed and set out, it was exhibited at a 



