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land counties. Now it appears never to be seen around 

 London, and to have become scarce or extinct in very many 

 of its old haunts, so that its actual present range is uncer- 

 tain ; but along the South Coast, and on that of Lancashire, it 

 is still common. In the fen districts of Cambridgeshire and 

 Norfolk it is now rarely found, though formerly plentiful. 

 In the west it extends, or has extended, to Herefordshire, 

 Gloucestershire, and Somerset, and even very rarely to Devon ; 

 specimens have also been taken at Barnsley and elsewhere in 

 Yorkshire, and in Durham. In Scotland it is recorded, 

 rarely, from Aberdeen, Pitcaple, Inverurie, Peterhead, and 

 from Ayrshire. In Ireland from Galway. Abroad it is 

 found throughout Central and Northern Europe — often as a 

 destructive pest — and in Spain, Northern Italy, Corsica, 

 Turkey, Southern Russia, Siberia, Tartary, China, and Japan , 



(Leucoma V-nigra, Fah. — This species, which is satiny- 

 white with a black V in the middle of the fore wings, was 

 recorded as British by Haworth, but his description appears 

 to indicate that he had before him a pale specimen of the 

 female Hypogymna dispar. But Stephens correctly describes 

 it, mentioning several specimens believed to be British, one 

 of them taken at Bromley, in Kent. Westwood also records 

 it as taken near Darenth, Kent, and it is well figured as 

 British by Wood. Thirty years ago the late Mr, E. G. 

 Baldwin recorded the capture of specimens of the nativity of 

 which he felt satisfied, as follows : — " I have a specimen 

 which was given me by Mr. S. Jessop, of Rawmarsh. The 

 insect was taken twenty years ago in Tinsley Park, between 

 Rotherham and SheJEeld, by a man named Siddell, who did 

 not know the value of the moth he had captured. Mr. Jessop 

 informs me that he met him early in the morning and asked 

 what he had in his box, which, being opened, revealed four 

 or five specimens of vau-nigruni (at the time considered by 

 them to be only S. salicis). They were pinned with large 

 common pins and some were alive, not having been killed by 



