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as nearly as may be, that of IV. hispidaria. I shall be glad 

 to show the specimens to any entomologist who may wish 

 to see them. — Edward Newman.' 



" As it is well known to every one who has been in the 

 habit of taking this insect that it could not appear in Sep- 

 tember, it may be interesting to state the facts relating to the 

 capture, the second of which I have just read. 



" In September, 1832, my brother Benjamin found a pupa 

 of this species in the sand on the Cheshire coast, which 

 proved to be a female ; but the imago did not appear till 

 after I had captured a number of the perfect insects during 

 the February of 1833, and which I took to the late Joseph 

 Eveleigh, of Manchester. 



" Many years since I was collecting insects on the Cheshire 

 Sandhills, in company with James Cooper, of Warrington, 

 when we found a number of larvae, which I told him were 

 those of Zonaria ; and I remember him remarking that he 

 had found the same larvae in the North. 



" I lately wrote to iiim for the particulars of his capture, 

 and he sent me the following reply : — ' When I came to 

 Preston from Carlisle, or shortly after, I was engaged by the 

 Preston Literary and Philosophical Society, and sent out to 

 the Hebrides to collect birds, about the year 1844. It was 

 when so engaged that I found the larva of Zonaria on the 

 Island of Bernera. The few larvae I found 1 put into a small 

 box, and bred a female, but did not know what it was till 

 next year when I found plenty near Lytham, and bred both 

 males and females from these.' 



" It is remarkable that nearly all the collections of 

 Lepidoptera in this kingdom have been supplied with this 

 species from the Cheshire coast, although 1 have little doubt, 

 if properly looked for in suitable places, it might be found 

 all round our coast ; I have a strong impression on my mind 

 that it has been captured on the south side of the Dee, and 

 again near Llandudno. Bernera is the extreme north-west 

 point of Scotland, and a small island, so that it probably 

 exists along the west coast for several hundred miles ; — and 

 why not on the east and south coasts .? How the apterous 

 female gets across the rivers I do not know, but its existence 

 on a small island is, I think, a good proof that that island has 

 once formed part of the main land." 



