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I propose to retain Guenée’s generic name, It should stand 
in future— 
PACHNOBIA, Gn. 
HYPOBOREA, Zett. 
Being most closely allied to some members of the genus 
Teniocampa, I propose to let it remain where it now stands 
in the British list of Lepidoptera; so that the only alteration 
necessary in our cabinets will be to remove the label ALPiNna, 
and place it as a synonym below the new label HYPOBOREA. 
The history of the British examples of this species is 
shortly as follows:—In 1839 Mr. Douglas took the first 
example of this moth, as above stated. In 1854 the late James 
Foxcroft took another, | believe, at Rannoch, in Perthshire. 
Then for a long period no captures were recorded in Britain, 
In 1870 Mr. T. Eedle took a specimen at rest on Schiehallion, 
a mountain in Perthshire: this specimen is, I believe, in the 
collection of my friend Dr. Battershell Gill, of Regent’s Park. 
A fourth was bred from a pupa shaken out of moss, while hunt- 
ing for Coleoptera, by Mr. Allin: this occurred in Braemar, 
in Aberdeenshire. This was followed by a capture of one, a 
female, by myself in the Breadalbane district of Perthshire, 
where it was flying in sunshine between two and three a.m.,, 
on July 10th, 1874. The same year Mr. Eedle again took a 
worn one near the site of his former capture. During the 
summer of 1875 1 searched very diligently and constantly for 
this species on the very ground where it has been taken this 
year; also where | took mine in 1874. In this search I was 
accompanied by Dr. Buchanan White, of Perth, and Duncan 
Robertson, the schoolmaster of Camghouran, whom I had 
trained as a Lepidopterist. None of us saw any trace of 
it, alhough constantly on the look out for the then great 
rarity. 
i the early part of August this year, Mr. Robertson sent 
me a moth for identification, which had been bred from a 
pupa shaken from moss upon one of the mountains south of 
Loch Rannoch. I at once saw my old friend Pachnobia. 
I wrote to him and told him to work for it, and he did so, 
taking a fine series, A little later I heard that Mr. Wheeler, 
of Norwich, with a friend, were at Rannoch, and had taken 
several specimens. Mr. Meek, too, was there, with two 
professional collectors; they also got some. So that amongst 
