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to resemble Barrettii, the general colour and the white spot 

 at the anal angle of the under wing leading me to this 

 conclusion. — A. A. 



[(1) Amphipyra Tragopogonis, (2) HydrcEcia nictitans, 

 (3) Hadena dentina. — Edward Newman.'] 



G. B. Corbin. — CneUiocampa pityocampa and Argijnnis 

 Niohe. — Where is Cnelhocampa pityocampa? I am led to 

 malie this enquiry from the I'act of having been somewhat 

 surprised last season at the very common occurrence of this 

 species in Kent, and the silence which has prevailed this 

 year with regard to its occurrence. Is the species so 

 thoroughly British that no question can be raised as to its 

 authenticity, or has my isolated position as a collector 

 prevented me from recognising the well-known fact ? Surely 

 if the species was so common as represented upon fir-trees, 

 they have not been exterminated in one season's collecting, 

 assiduously as that might have been carried out; or did the 

 continued rains and floods of spring and early summer 

 destroy the hopes of this season with this particular species ? 

 Again, has Argynnis Niobe been taken this season at the 

 bottom of that particular "huge rent" amongst the rushes 

 in Kent, or has that also disappeared with Cnethocampa 

 pityocampa? If I mistake not, it was stated in the 'Ento- 

 mologist,' at the time of the occurrence of Argynnis Niobe, 

 that a pair were to be figured in its pages; but the non- 

 appearance of these portraits seem to point to the fact that 

 some doubt existed as to the thoroughly British origin of the 

 specimens in question. Did such a doubt exist? To persons 

 like myself, who live away from the great marts of entomolo- 

 gical specimens and information, the news of a new species 

 added to our native Fauna is regarded with perhaps greater 

 interest than we should otherwise experience ; and with 

 regard to the two species, Cnethocampa pityocampa and 

 Argynnis Niobe, I must say my interest and curiosity were 

 awakened, but it certainly has not been satisfied; possibly, 

 however, I have felt some bias from the doubts expressed 

 about the thorough genuineness of all these specimens at the 

 time of their capture. I understand that Argynnis Niobe has 

 unquestionably been taken in England once or twice, which 

 is perhaps suflScient to establish its identity as a British 

 insect; but I had hoped that this season would have recorded 

 its further occurrence in that particular locality in Kent, 



