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but eacli page of God'.- great book is connected with the other, bound in its miglity cover, the Universe, and we cannot admire one 

 without adimrinK tlic other ; we do not love our mistress's hand alone, but also her brow, hair and eyes, her whole beautiful form, the 

 entire fiiultless work. 



NORTHERN LEPIDOPTER.V. — I here give a list of the Heterocerous Lepidoptera received by me sometime since from 

 Mr Conpcr who took tluni in S. Labrador and .-^micosti Island in the summers of 1872 and 1S73 ; there are sllll several Agrotis and 

 (Jrarabis ib.-it 1 am not (piile certain of, ami which I must <lefer attending to until I receive the few Polar species that art jet lacking, 



to mv cabinet, for comparison. , . , , , ., 



Alvpia Octomaculata, Fabriciu^, { Zygxna A.) (1793), appears to have been common, as I received twelve examples; they present 

 no parlu-ular diHerences from those found elsewliere. Tlie opinion has been expressed, though I doubt its accuracy, tliat these Anlicosti 

 specimens are the c? of A. Langtonii, whicli latter lias but one yellow spot on the secondaries, whilst Octomaculata, as we all know, has 



two white ones. . . „ ,.,,,.,. t r^ . t> i • 



Alvpia Langtonii Couper, live examples, presenting no variation from some which I obtained in Luzerne County, Fennsyivania. 

 This species appears to be verv closely allied to the Californian A. Sacramenti, Boisd., and to judge from Mr. Stretch's fagures on Plates 

 1 and 8 in jiis admirable work, I should consider them to be identical ; Sacrarnenti I have not yet seen in nature. 



Deilephila Oallii Kott., ( 1775). D. Chunmnerii, i/«rn'.s, one example ; this is a species common both to Europe and America. 

 >esia RuHcaudis.Kirbv, Faun. Bor. Am., IV, p. 303, ( 1837). H<mnnrrha<jia Uniformis, Grole <t Robinson. Five examples. _ 

 Thvatira Pudens Guenee, Noct. I, 13, 1 18-52). The single example diU'ers from those found in Pennsylvania, in that the white spot 

 on the middle of costa, on primaries, is indistinct on the inner edge, where it is much broken and merged into the grey ground colour, 

 this latter is more or less freckled with white tliroughout. t, ,, ,, „. ,1oo-^. i 



Agrotis Chardinvi, Boi.sduval, Eur. Lep. Ind. Meth., p. 94, (1829). A. H<-tm-a, Evemnmm, Bull. Mos., p. 35, (183, ), two examples, 



a trifle°larger but agreeing exactly in all other respects with the typical examples from Central Russia and Siberi.a. I believe this is tlie 



first instance of tberapture of this species in the Western Continent. It belongs to the .same group as the European A. Fimbria, A. Or- 



bona A Pioiuiba etc commonlv known in England as vellow underwiugs, the secondaries being yellow with a plain black margin. 



Agrotis Porp'hyrea, Hulmer. Two examples, present no diflerence whatever from those found in Piedmont and other parts ot 



Europe. . . ^ , . i ^ i i 



Agrotis Clandestina, Harris, one e-xample; this species IS found .as far north as (jreenland. 



Agrotis Conflua, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur., VI, 1, (1827). Three; do not present any obvious points of difference from examples 



from Iceland in my possession. ..„..,.>, , v. i . rr. . t7 n 



Agrotis Fennica Tauscher, Mem. Mo=c., (180G). One example; in the British Museum are examples credited to Irenton tails 

 and Nova Scotia but the one alluded to above is the first and only one I ever saw that was taken in N. America ; it is a haiHlsome spe- 

 cies, expanding about U inches, primaries are dark purplish grey margined with pale flesh colour along interior margin, recilorm and 

 orbicular also flesh colour; secondaries white, outwardly greyish or smoky. 



Mame.<tra Condita, Guen., Noct. II, 78. (1852). One example. , , . .r • . <• 



Hadena Rurea, Fabr. Syst. Ent., 618, (1775). One example, diflering in no particular from those received from various parts ot 



"™Leucania,— apparently L. Albilinea, Hubner, but the single example is in too wretched a condition to speak of with any certainty. 



Drasteria Erechtea, Giien., two small sized examples. 



Hyperelis Alienaria, II-S. Three. , . , tt ■ j o 



Metrocampa Perlata Guen. Sixteen example.s, all smaller than those found in the United States. 



Acidalia Frigidaria, Moschler, Wiener. Ent. Monatschrift, Vol. IV, p. 373, t, 10, (1860). Two examples. 



Cidaria Hast-Ua L var Gothicata, Guen. Nine examples, one with secondaries entirely black, like many of tho.se found commonly 

 in Pennsylvania N. York, etc., the others are nearer to the European stem-form Hastata, having .as much white in them as in many of 

 the latter- some agree exactly with Mr. Moschler's fig. 4 on t. 10, Wien. Ent. Monats., Vol. IV. • •, 



Cidaria Tristata, Lin. Syst. Nat., X, 526, (1758). One example, identical in every particular of size, colour and ornamentation, with 



' °^\;idTria ObXctata, Mosch., Wien. Ent. Monats., Vol. IV, p. 375, t. 10, (1860), three examples, all agreeing with the excellent figure 

 cited Mr Mo'chler in his original description, ventures tlie suggestion* that perhaps this may be a polar torm of C. Luctuata, Hb., 

 a species common in most parts of Central Europe; so .sure am I that this surmise will prove correct, that when I first received the ex- 

 amples before I was acquainted even with the figure and description of Mr. Moschler, I placed them in my collection below _C. Luctuata 

 a.s a variety of that species; the principal difference in Obducata, on the upper surface, is the absence of the white mesial band of 

 secondaries, beneath it is greater, the prevalent colour being black. 



Baptria Albovittata, Guen. Seven specimens. 



Sericoris Glaciana, Mosch., Wien. Ent. Monats., Vol. IV, p. 380, t. 10, (1860). One example. 



NEMEOPHIL\ PLANTIGINIS— Of this species and its varieties, Hospita, etc., I have seen in various collections, and have my- 

 self recei'ved many examples from Colorada, Nevada and California, as well as some melanotic forms which are unrepre.sented in the old 

 world one of which is the Nem. Petrosa of W.ilker. The synonymy of this species is: t- r i ir .i i 



nI^eophii-aPlantaginis, Linnaeus (PA«te«o P. iSysteraaNatura;, 501, (1758), Fauna Suec., 301, a ^ TT-Zte English Moths and 



Butt t 50 (1773); i?sner, Schmelt., 36, (1777-1794) ; Donovan, Nat. Hist. Brit. Ins., IV, 1. 134, ( 1, 92-1816). 

 Hubner (Bombm P.) Samm. Eur. Schmett., 127, 128, (1793-1827) ; (Parascmia P.] Verz. bek. Schmett., 181, 

 (1816).' Oschenheimer, Schmett. Eur., Ill, 312, (1810). Godart, Hist. Nat. Lep. Fr., Ill, 33, (1S21-1S24). 

 Stephens, {Nemeophlla P.) Brit. Ent., (1827-1835); Uunean, Nat. Lib. Ent., IV, 216, (1836) ; P,-e!/er, N. 

 Beit., 612, (1831-1858). Berge, {Bombyx P.) Schmetterlingsbuch, 68, t. 18, (1842). Staudmger, [Nenieophila 



2^emeopMaCh^spitl'^Cr,-oT& Robinson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, I, p. 337, t. VI, (1868). ib.IV, 428, (1873). 

 Nemeophila Cicltoni, Giote & Robinson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, I, p. 338, t. VI, (18b8). ib. IV, 428, (1873). 



*" Cidaria Obductata Moschl., Taf. 10, Fig. 3 (an luctuata var.?) Zwei von Labrador erhaltene uebereinstimmende Exemplare 

 w-iee ich ni'cht mit Bestimmtheit von luctuata zu trennen, denn obwohl dieselben auffallende unter.schied_e zeigen ware es doch moglich, 

 dass Bie als nordische Varietaten zu jener art gehorten." Moschler, Wien. Ent. Monats., Vol. IV, p. 37o, (1860). 



