THE ENTOMOLOGIST. ♦243 



I propose to retain Guenee's generic name. It should stand 

 in future — 



PACHNOBIA, Gn. 



HYPOBOREA, Zett. 



Being most closely allied to some members of the genus 

 Tseniocampa, I propose to let it remain where it now stands 

 in the British list of Lepidoptera; so that the only alteration 

 necessary in our cabinets will be to remove the label alpina, 

 and place it as a synonym below the new label hypohorea. 



The history of the British examples of this species is 

 shortly as follows: — In 1839 Mr. Douglas took the first 

 example of this niolh, as above slated. In 1854 the late James 

 Foxcroft took another, I believe, at Rannoch, in Perthshire. 

 Then for a long period no captures were recorded in Britain. 

 In 1870 Mr. T. Eedle took a specimen at rest on Schiehallion, 

 a mountain in Perthshire: this specimen is, I believe, in the 

 collection of my friend Dr. Battershell Gill, of Regent's Park. 

 A fourth was bred from a pupa shaken out of moss, while hunt- 

 ing for Coleoplera, by Mr. Allin : this occurred in Braemar, 

 in Aberdeenshire. This was followed by a capture of one, a 

 female, by myself in the Breadalbane district of Perthshire, 

 where it was flying in sunshine betweeu two and three a.m., 

 on July 10th, 1874. The same year Mr. Eedle again took a 

 worn one near the site of his former capture. During the 

 summer of 1875 I searched very diligently and constantly for 

 this species on the very ground where it has been taken this 

 year; also where I took mine in 1874. In this search I was 

 accompanied by Dr. Buchanan White, of Perth, and Duncan 

 Robertson, the schoolmaster of Camghouran, whom I had 

 trained as a Lepidopterist. None of us saw any trace of 

 it, although constantly on the look out for the then great 

 rarity. 



In the early part of August this year, Mr. Robertson sent 

 me a moth for identification, which had been bred from a 

 pupa shaken from moss upon one of the mountains south of 

 Loch Rannoch. I at once saw my old friend Pachnobia. 

 I wrote to him and told him to work for it, and he did so, 

 taking a fine series. A little later I heard that Mr. Wheeler, 

 of Norwich, with a friend, were at Rannoch, and had taken 

 several specimens. Mr. Meek, too, was there, with two 

 professional collectors ; they also got some. So that amongst 



