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butterfly reputed of old as British, but long, very long, a 

 stranger to our lists, has been detected among a number of 

 L, Adonis, which were purchased by Mr. Cooke of New 

 Oxford Street. At present, however, there seem to be 

 scarcely sufficient grounds for its re-admission. Mr. 

 Doubleday, who considers it highly probable that this 

 species will turn up now that attention has been called to it, 

 remarks (Zool. 8402):— 



" In Lew in's ' Papilios of Great Britain,' pubhshed in 1795, 

 figures are given of a Lyccena under the name of ' Syacin- 

 thuSy which Lewin states he took in two successive years by 

 the side of a chalk hill near Dartford in Kent. Ochsenheimer 

 refers these figures to L. Dorylas, S. V. * * * I do not 

 know whether any of Lewin's specimens are now in existence, 

 but his figures most certainly represent the sexes [and under- 

 side] o^ Lyccena DarylaSy which is distinguished from Adonis 

 by its paler blue colour slightly tinged with green, immaculate 

 cilia, and the absence of the two transverse ocelli at the base 

 of superior wings beneath." * * * 



A third British Procris has at last been recognized, and 

 great credit is due to the Reverend E. Horton for his dis- 

 covery of it's larva. And here also let it be noted that at 

 some future time Mr. Birchall's Zygcena, about which so 

 much has already been said and written, will in like manner 

 be proved to be (as it undoubtedly is) a species distinct from 

 the so-called Minos of our lists and cabinets. 



Three NoctucBj two of which (described further on by Mr. 

 Doubleday) are new to science ; the third, another south 

 European addition to our Fauna for the appearance here of 

 of which it is difficult to account, have occurred during the 

 past years of 1861 and 1862. 



The interesting FAlopia Prasinarioy Hiibner, has made its 



