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tracted from the " French Annals," was given in last year's 

 *' Annual," has been known to Mr. Buckler since 1861 (Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. vol. i. p. 48), and our northern collectors claim 

 to have been acquainted with it for a still longer period. 

 This shows how advisable it is that all new facts and obser- 

 vations should be recorded at as early a date as possible. 



NONAGRIA NEURICA and N. ARUNDINETA. 



In his synonymic Catalogue published in 1859, Mr. 

 Doubleday adopts the name of " neurica^' Hiibner, and 

 gives as a synonym " Hesm^' Bdv., which, according to 

 M. Guenee, is identical with '' clissoluta'^ of Treit. and distinct 

 from '"'■ neurica^^ Hiibner. Dr. Staudinger, on the other 

 hand, gives ^^ dissoluta,''' Treit. and ^^ Hessiif' Bdv., as 

 aberrant forms of Konagi^ia ^^ aTundinetV {ta), Schmidt 

 (Ent. Zeit. ]858, p. 367), which he looks upon as distinct from 

 " neurica^^ Hiibner. Mr. Doubleday did not recognize the 

 name *' arundlnetd'^ bestowed upon the insect which had 

 hitherto gone, in our cabinets, by the name of" neuricAi^' Hb. 



For the information of those who may not have access 

 to the " Entomologische Zeitung" it may be well to say, 

 that Herr Schmidt of Wismar detected and separated two 

 species which had up to that time been confounded under the 

 name of " neurica ;" one of these, which agreed with his 

 recollection of Hiibner's figure, he considered should retain 

 the ori«;inal name — for the other, of which a fio-ure is siven 

 in Dr. Herrich-Schaffer's Syst. Bearb. d. Schmett. v. Europa 

 (Bd. ii. S. 244, No. 186), which, he says, is identical with the 

 ordinary form of our own cabinet specimens, he proposed 

 the name '^ arundineta.'" Herr Schmidt acknowledges that 

 the perfect insects are so closely allied that any one having 

 only one of the species would not know to which to refer it, — 

 indeed Dr. Herrich-Schaffer was only convinced after some 



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