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LEPIDOPTERA. 



Notes on British Lepidoptera (excepting Tineina) 

 FOR 1864. 



By H. G. Knaggs, M.D. 



Although the past season lias yielded to the working 

 Entomologist a fair sprinkling of some of the scarcer Lepi- 

 doptera (as will be seen by a reference to the table devoted, 

 in this paper, to their exposition) our list of novelties is 

 meagre, three species only having been added to the British 

 Fauna, viz. : — 



Nojiagria hrevilinea, Fenn. 



Eupifheckt lariciata, Freyer. 



Eupithecia campanulata, Herrich-Schaffer. 



Before, however, commencing the subject of these new spe- 

 cies, a few remarks on certain passing points of interest may 

 not be unacceptable to the reader of these pages. 



Procris Geryon and P. statices. 



The suit of *' Gerijon versus statices''' progresses under the 

 impartial management of the Rev. E. Horton ; thus far the 

 plaintiff seems to have the best of it, and will doubtless in the 

 end establish an independence. It is to be hoped that 

 Mr. Horton will continue to prosecute — his investigations and 

 complete the chain of evidence which he has already put 

 before us (Ent. Mo. Mag. vol. i. p. 141). His discovery 

 that the young larvae of both species are " miners" is not less 

 extraordinary than true. 



1865. H 



