THE DELICATE. 3^1 



named it miipuncta in 1803 it has been renamed many times, 

 and was long known in England as extranea, Guende. About 

 a score have been recorded as taken in the British Isles 

 altogether, and of these two only in Ireland ; the others were 

 captured in England and Wales, and nearly all on the south or 

 south-west coast, chiefly in the month of September. The most 

 recent being one in the New Forest, Hampshire, 1896, one in 

 Devon, 1903, one in 1907, and one in 191 1. Also in Isle of 

 Wight, 191 2. 



The Cosmopolitan {Leucania {Cirphis) loreyi). 



Barrett accepted this species as British, chiefly on the 

 strength of two specimens captured at sugar by a sedgy ditch, 

 nearer to Worthing than to Brighton in Sussex ; the date was 

 1862. More recent records are one specimen at Torquay on 

 September 27, 1900, and another, also in South Devon, 

 September 6, 1903. The former taken at sugar, and the latter 

 netted when "flying wildly over rough herbage at dusk." 

 Ireland in 1908. 



The species has a wide range through Southern and Eastern 

 Asia, etc., but in Europe it is only found in the south and along 

 the Mediterranean. The specimen shown on Plate 149, Fig. 6, 

 is from India. 



The Delicate {Leucania {Sideridis) vitellina). 



The first recorded British specimen of this species (Plate 149, 

 Fig. 3) was captured at Brighton, Sussex, some fifty odd years 

 ago. The species has occurred in and around that locality 

 several times since, but seems to have been found more 

 frequently at Torquay and other places on the Devonshire coast. 

 It has also been recorded from the Scilly Isles, Cornwall, the 

 Isle of Wight, the New Forest, and Chichester ; Kent, on 

 the coast, and inland at Canterbury. Sussex. In 1902, a year 

 in which several specimens were obtained on the south coast. 



