124 LEPIDOPTERA. 



NEW BRITISH SPECIES IN 1868. 



Leucania albipuncta, S. v. 



Leucania albiimncta, S. V., Q. 4 ; Fab. 342; Hiib. 223; 

 Gn. I. 75. 



This close ally of L. litkargyriaf which makes its ap- 

 pearance in July and August in various parts of Europe, 

 though actually commoner, than the last named, in France, 

 does not ap[)ear to be so generally distributed. 



Albipuncta is an insect of a smaller cut than lithargyria ; 

 the fore-wings are more ferruginous, the white spot is more 

 strongly marked, the subterrainal line is more visible, but 

 the series of dots which follow it are much less marked than 

 in lithargyria. 



Its ordinal position in our lists will be immediately after 

 lithargyria. This interesting Ijeucania, which ought to 

 have turned up in England long ago, was exhibited as a 

 species new to our lists on the 2nd of November last, at the 

 Entomological Society of London, by Mr. T. H. Briggs, of 

 St. John's College, Oxford, but was first identified in the 

 "Entomologist's Monthly Magazine" (vol. v. p. 173). Mr. 

 Briggs took one specimen at sugar at Folkestone on the 

 15th of August last; his brother captured a second early 

 in October in the same locality, and they saw what they 

 believed to be another specimen, but failed to secure it. 



Plusia ni, Hiibner. 



Plusia nif Hiib. 284 ; Engr. 595 a, b, c (VAjoutee) ; Tr. 



V. 3, 189; Hup. vii. 137 ; Freyer, 23—1 ; Gn. ii. 349. 



This Plusia^ though rather scarce, has a wide distribution, 

 for it is recorded as occurring not only in several European 



