NOTES ON NEW AND RARE BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 129 



matic influences of the past season have been expected : it 

 consists of the following: — 



Dianthoscia ccesiay S. V. 

 Xijlina ZmcJieniiy Treitsclike. 

 Aplasia ononana, Fuessly. 

 Scopan'a basistrigalis, Knaggs. 

 Pemjjelia suhornatella. Duponchel. 

 Tortr'ix ochreana, Hiihner. 

 Dicroraviphaflavidorsanaf Knaggs, MS. 



But let it not be imagined that these are necessarily the 

 only discoveries in the Lepidopterous department. The 

 Messrs. Fenn have captured a Dianthoeciaj which may 

 or may not be new to us ; and among some Scoparice 

 kindly forwarded by Mr. Dale, I find one bearing his MS. 

 name of " ulmella,'' which it is my purpose to charac- 

 terise under that name, as a good n. sp., in a paper in 

 course of preparation for " The Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine;" and even while I write Mr. Birchall has for- 

 warded for my inspection a pair of fore-wings apparently 

 belonging to some small Acronycta^ or Polia, found re- 

 cently in his celebrated cave at Ilkley, which appear to have 

 no connexion with any known British species. Then again, 

 the second re-discovery of Sericoris euphorhiana, and the 

 recurrence of such local species as Sesia pldlanthiformis 

 Lithosia caniola, Diantlioecia capsophila, Phlogophora em- 

 pyrea, Glcea erythrocephalaj Agrotera nemoralisj Diasemia 

 Mamhurialis, Cramhus ocelleay C ( ? ) micro grammana, 

 Eup. curvistrigana, &c., in fresh habitats, are all peculiarly 

 interesting in their way. Besides these, too, several singular 

 varieties have turned up, among which may be mentioned 

 two(^ and $) extraordinary silvery lead-coloured aberia- 

 tions of Cahera pusaria; a series of live or six examples of 

 1867. K 



