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(Xylophasia lithoxylea), the Dark Arches (Xylophasia 

 polyodon], the Cabbage Moth (Mamestra Brassicce), 

 the Dot (Mamestra Persicarice), the Dusky Brocade 

 (Apamea gemina\ the Garden Dart (Agrotis nigricans), 

 the True Lovers' Knot (Agrotis Obelisca), the Lesser 

 Broad Border (Tryphcena ianthina), the Broad-Bor- 

 dered Yellow Underwing (Tryphcena fimbria), the 

 Lesser Yellow Underwing (Tryphcena orbona), the 

 Large Yellow Underwing (Tryphcena pronuba), the 

 Clouded Drab (Tceniocampa instabilis), the Brick 

 (Xanthia ferruginea}, the Common Angle Shades 

 (Phlogophora meticulosa}, the Gray Arches (Aplecta 

 nebulosa), the Sword-Grass (Calocampa exoleta), the 

 Mullein (Ciicullia Verbasci\ the Beautiful Yellow 

 Underwing (Anarta My r till f), the Gold Spot (Plusia 

 Festucce\ the Silver Y (Plusia Gamma} , the Herald 

 (Gonoptera Libatrix), which we never miss from its 

 winter quarters in the subterranean passages leading 

 to the offices in the house at Uppark, the Gothic 

 (Ncenia typica], the Old Lady (Mania Maura}, often 

 taken in a garden tool-house and other outhouses in 

 the village, the Red Underwing (Catocala mipta), one 

 only specimen taken on the wing at West Harting, 

 and many other intermediate species, too numerous to 

 find space in this short notice. 



The last great division of moths, which we shall 

 briefly invite attention to, is made up of all the most 

 minute forms of the whole order, and includes, among 

 many other objects of interest, the Leaf-miners, whose 

 tortuous subcutaneous labyrinths in the leaves of the 

 bramble and other growing plants are so conspicuous 

 every season. The largest species of this group Halias 

 prasinana, which we have found and reared on the 

 beech in great numbers, is a most beautiful moth, with 

 anterior wings of a delicate pale green, relieved with 

 three diagonal silver lines across the disk of each. In 

 our early entomological days we have collected many 

 specimens of the caterpillar of this pretty moth every 



