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LEPIDOPTERA. 



Notes on New and Rare British Lepidoptera 

 (excepting Tineina), in 1867. 



By H. G. Knaggs, M.D., F.L.S. 



The Entomologist who is apt to judge of the quality of a 

 season by the number of "painted ladies," "deaths-heads," 

 or other standards of excellence which may have come 

 within his ken, naturally jumps to the conclusion that the 

 past lias been one of the very worst seasons upon record ; 

 and, like a true, but disappointed Briton, eases himself of a 

 characteristic growl. 



Now, in 1865 we heard comparatively very little grumbling, 

 for " everybody" was up to his eyes with " deaths-heads" 

 and " humming-bird moths," and yet our list of novelties 

 then amounted to but three, one of which was so firmly re- 

 garded by its god-papa as an importation that he named it 

 at starting after an Isle of Greece ; while, as for the other 

 two, neither Mr. Newman nor I can as yet get the public 

 as a body to swallow either B. 'perfumarm or A, man- 

 cuniata. What a contrast in point of progress is presented 

 by a comparison of that season with the one just passed ! At 

 any rate the following array of novelties does not look much 

 like coming to a stand-still : — 



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