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taken by Mr. Rogers, .1 collector for sale, at Freshwater, Tsle 

 of Wight. iNFr. W. D. Crotch, who was collecting with the 

 captor, recorded the specimen in the Enfomolo(jut''s Wcrkly 

 Intelligencer, 1859, stating that he was present and saw the 

 specimen before it was killed, and made a drawing of it, 

 whereby he obtained its name at the "British Museum. This 

 specimen was exhibited at a meeting of the Entomological 

 Society of London, in October of the same year, by the late 

 Mr. F. Bond, in whose collection, now in the possession of 

 Mr. Sydney Webb, it still is. In the year 1876 another 

 specimen captured by the same person was seen, while still 

 fresh, on the setting-board, by Mr. J. B. Blackburn and 

 recorded by him. In 1875 a specimen was secured, at light, 

 at the lighthouse at Cromer, by Mr. R. Coraben, and sent on 

 with other insects to Mr. W. H. Thornthwaite, for whom the 

 captor was then collecting. The specimen, when received, 

 was still fresh and quite limp. It, like the rest of the insects 

 taken, was quite unknown to the captors — the inmates of the 

 lighthouse ; it was submitted to me for identification by Mr. 

 Thornthwaite soon after, and I have no doubt of the genuine- 

 ness of the capture. I am not aware of any other occurrences 

 of the species in these islands. It may readily be recognised 

 by the chocolate-black triangle on the front of its collar. It 

 is evidently a wandering species, for, though rare in Europe, 

 it is recorded from France, Spain, Germany, Hungar3% 

 Switzerland, and Corsica, as well as Southern and Western 

 Russia, Asia Minor, various parts of India, and South 

 America. 



7. N. c -nigrum, L. — Expanse 1| to 1^ inch. Fore 

 wings narrow, dark rosy-grey or blackish-grey; before the 

 middle of the costa is a yellow triangular blotch, lying in a 

 prostrate deep black C-mark ; hind wings whitish. 



Antenna^ of the male slender, very finely ciliated, dark 

 brown ; palpi dark purple-brown at the sides, yellowish- 

 brown in front ; head light brown dusted with darker ; collar 



