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has actually already been foreshadawed that " mancuniata 

 ?s subsericeuta only ivHh a different form of larva F' so, 

 lienceforth, if this liypothesis be adopted, our friends Bates 

 and Wallace may revel to their heart's content in the acces- 

 sion of a new and undisputed instance of ** dimorphism in 

 the larval state." 



NEW BRITISH SPECIES IN 1866. 



DiANTHCECIA C^SIA, S. V. 



Truly this land of Sweetwilliams, pinks, campions and 

 catchflies is rich in Dianthoecit^ ; so rich that, being; naturally 

 timid, I am afraid to reckon up the number of candidates 

 belonging to the group, which have of late years been no- 

 minated for the honour of a place in the British cabinet; 

 but coesia, he at any rate will stand, for *' quocunque jeceris 

 stabit" is the motto under which he has long flourished. 



Although Mr. Edwin Shepherd possesses a Bentleyan 

 specimen, said to have been taken many years ago in York- 

 shire, the species has been so long an absentee from our lists 

 that the occurrence of D. ccesia during the past season in 

 the Isle of Man may be safely regarded in the light of a 

 fresh discovery, or at least equivalent to one. 



For this interesting addition to our steadily swelling list of 

 Dianthoecice, we are indebted to Messrs. Gregson, Green- 

 ing and Hopley, and it has also been taken by Messis. 

 Bleakley and Parry, the last-named of whom, by some 

 painful combination of circumstances, evidently beyond his 

 control, introduced it to the British public in the pages of 

 "The Entomologist/' (vol. iii. p. 104,) under the name of 



