42 LEPIDOPTERA. 



In the "Intelligencer" of November 14th, 1857, appeared 

 a more detailed account of this capture, as follows : — 



" Aspilates sacraria. — I now send a iQ\Y additional par- 

 " ticulars of this capture. I was with my brother when he 

 " took it : it was at rest on the iron framework of the lamp 

 " about 10 P.M., its wings meeting over its back, and form- 

 " ing a very inclined roof. I showed it to several friends 

 ** before killing it, although I did not know it was any- 

 *' thing rare. It certainly is a very singular time for its 

 " appearance, so many months after the proper times. — 

 " C. Rogers, St. Andrew's Street^ Plymouth; October 

 " 27th, 1857." 



The notice of the insect in the " Entomologist's Annual " 

 for 1858 is throughout of an apologetic nature, as though 

 the possibility of its occurrence in England was almost more 

 than some Entomologists could believe. After premising 

 that " Our list of novelties includes only two of the Macro- 

 Lep'idoptera, belonging to the Geometrina (and one of 

 these, it is true, may be only an accidental visitor, and as 

 much an indigenous British animal as the tiger which lately 

 perambulated RatclifFe Highway)," &c., it proceeds, after re- 

 ferring to the capture of Sacraria already cited from the 

 " Intelligencer :" — 



"Future investigation must show whether this has been 

 " an accidental importation, or whether this species has any 

 '* claims to be considered truly British. 



" Mr. Wollaston remarks, * that all the species common 

 '' to Madeira and the British Islands are found in the south- 

 " western extremity of our country and of Ireland ;' the 

 *^ occurrence of a Mediterranean species would therefore be 

 " more probable in that portion of Great Britain than else- 

 " where. 



