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specimen from Cambridgeshire, It is nearly half as large 

 again as aclusta, dark varieties of which are continually being 

 taken for satura." Mr. Doubleday's specimen, a great beauty, 

 is still in his collection at the Bethnal Green Museum. Mr. 

 George Balding states that it was captured at Yaxley. "With 

 respect to the Oxfordshire specimen, our veteran entomologist, 

 Mr. S. Stevens, assures me that it was taken in the south of 

 that county near Reading, and he believes that, in all, three 

 or four specimens were taken. One, in the collection of Mr. 

 Bird's brother-in-law, Mr. Hanson, passed into Mr. Stevens' 

 collection at Mr. Hanson's sale. The ultimate fate of the 

 Rev. Mr. Bird's collection appears to be unknown. Con- 

 firmation of the Reading locality is furnished by the capture, 

 some years ago, of a female specimen near that town by 

 Mr. W. Holland. Through his liberality it is now in my 

 possession. The Cambridgeshire capture has also been con- 

 firmed by the capture at Wicken of two specimens, at sugar, 

 by Mr. J. W. Tutt. These, which he has allowed me to 

 examine, are full-sized and very handsome examples, while 

 mine is somewhat small. Mr. Stainton's remark that varieties 

 of U. adusta are mistaken for the present species, was prob- 

 ably illustrated by his own record of a specimen at Airthrey, 

 near Stirling, in 1845 ; perhaps also by a supposed capture at 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne in that year, of another on the Cotswolds 

 in 1852, and by Mr. Birchall's record of a specimen at Wick- 

 low, Ireland. Some comparatively recent records of the moth, 

 or its larva, in the East of Scotland are so confused with those 

 of another species, and so strongly indicative of error, that it 

 is not necessary now to do more than advert to them — more 

 especially as the locality of the supposed captures is altogether 

 unsuitable and improbable. Abroad this species inhabits 

 Central Europe, some parts of Northern Europe, North 

 Italy, Dalmatia, Siberia, and the Ural Mountains. 



4. E. adusta, Esp. — Expanse IJ to If inch. Fore wings 

 rather narrow and pointed, dusky red-brown marbled with 



