THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XXVIIL] JUNE, 1895. [No. 385. 



NOTES ON VAEIOUS SPECIES INCLUDED IN VOL. IL OF 

 MR. BARRETT'S ' LEPIDOPTERA OF THE BRITISH 

 ISLANDS.' 



Bv W. F. KiRBY, F.L.S., F.E.S., &c. 



Sphinx pinastri — It is curious to notice ho^., completely a con- 

 spicuous species may be lost sight of for many years and placed in 

 our supplementary lists as " introduced without authority," and 

 subsequently reinstated on its being discovered that it had 

 actually been "omitted from the British I'st without authority " 

 instead. It is true that the older authors introduced North 

 American and other foreign insects in^o their lists, some of which 

 at least had apparently been accidentally imported into England 

 in a living state ; but in the early years of the present century there 

 was but little communication betwsen England and the continent 

 of Europe, and many, v-orhaps most, ot the European species 

 likely to occur in Emilancl and stated to be British by the older 

 authors, and subsequc.-ifcly doubted, have now been reinstated in 

 our lists. 



Deilephila livornica. — Mr, Barrett has fallen into a curious 

 error respecting 7 *. lineata, which he first notices as a variety of 

 D. livoDuca, an:! then, in the next paragraph, as a distinct 

 species, under tL^ name of D. daucus. 



Sesiid^. — With furthr information respecting their habits, 

 these Clear.vings have jeen more freely taken or reared in 

 England, though one or two, including the large and con- 

 spicuous Sesia asiliformis, still remain excessively rare. We 

 believe that the alleged occurrence of S. scoliceformis in Ireland 

 is now fully confirmed. 



Zyg-enid.e. — M}-. Barrett's observations on the burnet moths 

 {Zijgcena) will be read with much interest. He remarks that no 

 locality for Z. minos is known in England ; but we may mention 

 that some years ago specimens of a Zycjcena captured at Tin- 

 tagel in Cornwall were announced as minos, and subsequently 



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