136 LEPIDOPTERA. . 



Mamestra auredoy a palpable lapsus calami for 3Iamest7'a 

 arida of Lederer, uhich, supposing tbe "i" to be long, 

 would in the Lancashire dialect sound to southern ears 

 pretty much as we should pronounce ** aurcdau.'' It is 

 perhaps superfluous to add that Lederer's Blamestra arida^ 

 which he described in 1855, in the " Verhandlungen des 

 zoologisch-botanischen Vereins," has no possible connexion 

 with the Dianthoecia ccBsia of the Vienna Catalogue. 



On account of the darker tints, &c. which appear to be 

 constant in the Manx ccesia, as compared with continental 

 types, Mr. Gregson has proposed (Entom. iii. p. 103) to 

 designate this race of the species under the fantastic but 

 still very appropriate name of " Manani," (after Manan, 

 first king of Man,) for why should not ccesia bear a regal 

 title ? ^' Aut Ccesia aut nullus^' say I. 



Mr. Hopley has, in a very pleasing manner, depicted the 

 beauties and the dangers of the locality in which ccEsia 

 occurs in the pages of '^ The Entomologist's Monthly Ma- 

 gazine" (vol. iii. p. 88). 



Xylina Zinckenii, Tr. (fig. 7). 



This startling and splendid acquisition to our Noctuina 

 was made by an incipient, a Mr. Harrington of Bermondsey, 

 last September, somewhere in the neighbourhood of New 

 Cross ; the said collector, I am informed, observed it settled 

 low down on the trunk of a tree whilst engaged in the pur- 

 suit of pupa-digging: he placed a box underneath it, and 

 frivino; the insect a touch it fell into it motionless. 



The specimen which, with the exception of trifling injuries 

 about the cilia, is in capital condition, w^s exhibited as an 

 undetermined new British species by Mr. E. G. Meek, at 

 the second November meeting of the Entomological Society 

 of London, but was first identified and brought forward as 



