44 LEPIDOPTERA. 



In the year 1859 the captures of this insect increase in 

 number. One was captured by Mr. Button on a gas-lamp 

 at Clapham Common, August 11th, and, as Mr. Edward 

 Newman was known to be sceptical as to its occurrence in 

 this country, was shown to him alive the same evening. 

 (Zoologist, 1859, p. 6693. Intelligencer, vol. vi. p. 179.) 



Another was captured near Barnstaple by Mr. G. F. 

 Mathew^ August 23rd. (Intelligencer, vol. vi. p. 179.) 



Another was taken at a gas-lamp at Croydon, Octo- 

 ber 5th (Zoologist, 1859, p. 6789), where Mr. Newman 

 announces that " several other specimens of S. sacraria 

 *' have occurred in different parts of the south of England 

 " during the past month." 



I do not find any record of its occurrence again with us 

 till 1863 — though it must be presumed that collectors were 

 rather keenly on the look out for so striking an insect ; and 

 in the spring of 1863 Mr. G. F. Mathew had published in 

 the pages of the *' Weekly Entomologist," vol. ii. p. 84, 

 a notice of the habits of the insect, as observed by him at 

 Lisbon and Gibraltar, where it was not at all uncommon in 

 October. 



The next recorded capture was on the 21st August, 1863, 

 when two were captured near Sutton, — a female by Mr. G. 

 W. Hall and a male by Mr. Bouchard. (Zoologist, 1863, 

 p. 1784.) 



Again a year passes away without the occurrence of the 

 species being recorded ; but in the year 1865 the insect again 

 puts in an appearance — one was captured, July 18th, at 

 Hove, near Brighton, by Mr. Alfred Kirby (Entomologist's 

 Monthly Magazine, vol. ii. p. 92); one, August 19th, near 

 Worthing, by Master W. J. Wilson (Ent. Monthly Maga- 

 zine, vol. ii. p. 92); one, September 5th (at sugar), near 

 Exeter, by Mr. D'Orville (Ent. Monthly Mag. vol. ii. 



