130 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



the last appearing on the 1st of August in the present year. The 

 first five contained four plates each, and corresponding letter- 

 press ; and the remainder eight plates each, with similar de- 

 scriptions. As the entomological articles of the 'British 

 Miscellany' are not numerous, and the subjects in general very 

 interesting, a slight enumeration of them is here subjoined ; 

 with, occasionally, such short remarks as the limited nature of 

 this paper will consistently allow. On table (i.e., Plate) the 

 second, a Papilio, new to Britain, is figured, under the name of 

 P. blandina, Fab., E. S. 736 nee 397, but which is, most pro- 

 bably, the P. ligea of Linnaeus. It was caught in the island of 



Arran in Scotland Table 37 finely represents, as a new 



species, the rare Bombyx oleagina of Fab. and of Lep. Brit., and 

 Noctua oleagina of Hiib. Schmet., cum icone. I have seen Mr. 

 Plastead's specimen, here mentioned, several years since ; which 

 that gentleman dug the pupa of in Battersea fields, along with 

 Noctua persicarice ; and have also seen another which was caught 

 in Scotland twenty years ago ; and my friend Mr. Donovan, 

 F.L.S., found one in Wales."* And so here at last, after so 

 many years, I find an answer to my question ! Can any of your 

 readers inform me whether the three specimens above referred to 

 are still in existence ?t There can be no reasonable doubt, I 

 should imagine, as to their being genuine British specimens. It 

 seems very strange, considering the number and indefatigable 

 zeal of collectors since that period, that no other example, so 

 far as I am aware, has since been taken. It is the more remark- 

 able, when we consider the widely-separated localities in which 

 the above were taken, viz., Battersea, Scotland, and Wales ! One 

 more quotation may, I think, be interesting : — " In the same 

 year (1770) we arrive at the time of the publication of a beautiful 

 work on Entomology, that of my late and regretted friend 



D. Drury, F.L.S., in one vol. 4to Mr. Drury's cabinet 



was one of the most extensive ever made ; and is said to have 

 contained in species and varieties the surprising number of 

 11,000 insects. He spared no pains or cost in getting them 

 together ; and, like Petiver of old, sent printed instructions, in 



* Donovan (' British Insects,' vol. xiii., pi. 439) states that he took his specimens 

 on the wing, by a low hedge, near Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, in July, 1800. 



f Newman (' British Moths,' p. 401) mentions that the specimen in the Entomo- 

 logical Club collection is from the late Mr. Haworth's cabinet. The collection is 

 under the care of Mr. B. T. Lowne, and still contains the insect in question. 



