NOTES ON BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 139 



The discoveries, during the past season, of hitherto unde- 

 tected larvae of our native species, for the most part brought 

 to light by the patient toil of Mr. William Buckler and the 

 Rev. John Hellins, are both numerous and of an unusually 

 interesting nature : an evidence of progress, in this most 

 charming branch of the study of Lepidoptera, which ought 

 to rouse all true Entomologists to renewed exertions. 



Of captures too there has been no lack in quantity, nor 

 has the quality been at all below the average. Vanessa 

 Antiopa, Argynnis Lathonia (and, it is hinted, even Pohj- 

 ommatus Hippotlio'e) have turned up here and there. Clioe- 

 rocampa ceJerio and DeUephila livornica, the former in 

 really respectable numbers, and— what is still more satis- 

 factory — accompanied by its larva, have also put in appear- 

 ances; D. galii has, evidently, not yet shared the fate of its 

 congener eitphorbicB, and the scarce Sesia spheciformis 

 and S. chrysidiformis have both been met with. Nolodonta 

 hicolora, this time to the number of six, has re-appeared in 

 North Staffordshire. A pair of JDianthoecia Barretti'i has 

 fallen to the lot of Mr. Edwin Birchall, and we have no 

 proof that D. allimacula has not occurred this season, until 

 some thirty Dianthoecious pupae, collected near the spot of 

 Mr. Lacy's recorded capture, shall have yielded forth their 

 imagos. Xylotnynes conspicillaris and Acronycta alni have 

 occurred, though very sparingly as usual. Glcea erytliro- 

 cephala has been taken, for the second time, near St. Albans. 

 Cucullia gnaphalii in the larva state near Brighton. 

 Catocala fraxini has been noticed in the Isle of Wight. 

 We have not yet seen the last Erastria venustula, A new 

 locality has been recorded for Micra ostrina, and Mi-. 

 Horton' sToxocanipa craccce bids fair, ere long, through the 

 liberality of that gentleman, to grace the cabinet of many a 

 zealous collector. 



JEnnomos alniaria would seem to have taken up its head- 



