THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
No. 161.) NOVEMBER, MDCCCLXXVI. [Price 6d. 
Pachnobia hypoborea. By Joun T. Carrineton. 
PACHNOBIA HYPOBOREA (male and female). 
As the year 1876 will hereafter be known amongst Lepi- 
dopterists as the “Alpina year,’—on account of the large 
number of specimens captured during the past season in the 
Highlands of Scotland,—some account of this species may 
be of interest. Before entering upon the history of its occur- 
rence in Britain, I will explain its nomenclature. 
Dalman was the first known entomologist who noticed this 
moth. He gave it the name of Hypoborea in MS. 
Zettersdedt, in 1840, published his ‘ Insecta Lapponica,’ in 
which this moth was first described. He adopted 
Dalman’s MS. specific name, and placed it in the genus 
Hadena. 
Humphrey and Westwood, in 1848, in their ‘ British 
Moths,’ figure this species under the name of Agrotis 
alpina. The specimen from which this figure was made 
was that taken by Mr. Douglas on Cairn Gower, Perth- 
shire, in 1839, 
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