390 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



CUCULLIA ARTEMISIM ADDED TO THE BRITISH FAUNA. 



By W. Brooks. 



While sugaring near Starcross, in Devonshire, on Friday 

 evening, August 21st, 1885, I took a couple of dull-looking 

 insects which were at rest on a post in an oak fence about two feet 

 apart. It did not strike me at the time that they were of any value, 

 and I thought no more about them. An old entomologist hap- 

 pening to call in the other evening, and seeing my recent captures, 

 at once noticed my two dull-looking strangers, and pronounced 

 them to be a rare Cucidlia. He has since kindly got them 

 identified by Mr. Butler, of the British Museum, as Ciicullia 

 artemisicB (ahrotani), an unlooked-for and an unexpected prize. 



[Cucullia artemisice has long been in the list of reputed British 

 species, and now enters our fauna upon the identification of Mr. 

 Butler, of the British Museum. The date of Mr. Brooks's capture 

 appears to be abnormal, as it is one upon which we should expect 

 to find a full-fed larva upon flowers of wormwood, rather than an 

 imago of C. artemisiae , which on the Continent appears in May 

 and June. In our list of British Lepidoptera this species will 

 come between C gnaphalii and C. ahsinthii. The following is a 

 short description of C. artemisice : — Expanse, one inch and three- 

 quarters. The anterior wings are narrower than those of C. 

 ahsinthii; ground colour dark gray, varied with paler; transverse 

 lines somewhat distinct ; inner margin less dark than in C 

 gnaphalii; inner line with deep indentations, the elbowed line 

 being sharply broken over the inner margin; the stigmata are 

 both light, with darker centres and borders. Posterior wings are 

 like those of Cucullia ahsinthii. — J. T. C] 



The Lodge, The Oaks, Lower Norwood, S.E., Sept. 12, 1885. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



Anosia archippus in Cornwall. — I have much pleasure in 

 recording the capture of Anosia ai'chippus, Fab., on Sept. 21st 

 last, by my friend Mr. Harris Saundry (who, though not an 

 entomologist, was struck by the size of the insect), flying heavily 

 over a stubble field adjoining the village of Trevilley, about half 



