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LEPIDOPTERA. 



Notes on New and Rare British Lepidoptera 

 (excepting Tineina) in 1868. 



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



Aftei. a summer almost unprecedented for the duration 

 and inensity of its heat, .and followed by an exceedingly 

 mild aitumn, the British Lepidopterist naturally looks for- 

 ward t( an imposing array of novelties as the result of the 

 year's vork. Theoretically, no doubt, the readers of " The 

 Annual' ought to have before them a list far' above the 

 average; but practically the additions to the British moth- 

 fauna, lince the publication of our last volume, are the 

 followii:^ : — 



1. Leucania albipuncta, S. V. (Ent. Mo. Mag. v. 173). 



2. Plusia ni, Hiibner (Ent. Mo. Mag. v. 107). 



3. Scoparia Zelleri, Wocke (Ent. Mo. Mag. v. 131). 



4. C^rambus myelins, Hiibner (Meeting of Ent. Soc, 



Dec. 7th, 1868). 



5. EupoeciliaHei/deniana,li.'^. (Present "Annual"). 



6. Eupoecilia Degreyana, M*L. (Present "Annual"). 



7. Ptei'ophorus {Oxyptilus) Icetus, Zeller? (Present 



"Annual"). 



Only seen new British species in such a year ! Perhaps 



