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LEPIDOPTERA. 



NOTES ON NEW and RARE SPECIES of LEPI- 

 DOPTERA (EXCEPTING TINEINA), for 1863. 



By H. G. Knaggs, M.D. 



WITH 



DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO SPECIES OF 

 NOCTUA NEW TO SCIENCE. 



By Henry Doubleday. 



To tbe collector of British Macro-Lepidoptera, the past 

 season has been painfully unproductive. To him not one 

 solitary new species has the year brought forth. Excepting 

 in one or two favoured localities, decent captures have been 

 few and far between, even in districts where the net and 

 sugar-pot have been no strangers. One might almost have 

 thought that, with the vast diminution in the number and 

 energy of the workers, butterflies and moths w^ould soon 

 have recovered from the decimating (?) attacks of those 

 numerous and vigorous performers who flourished in the 



days when " The Intelligencer" was but no, some deeper 



agency than human acquisitiveness has been at work : un- 

 favourable seasons, and especially winters, have dealt destruc- 

 tion to insect life, and larvae and pupae have been carried oflP 



