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Beside the above, however, several exceedingly important 

 and interesting captures have been put upon record; some of 

 them, it is true, do not belong to the season, but then they 

 have been chronicled for the first time, and deserve a passing 

 notice. Of these, a few may be looked on as i-e-discoveries, 

 others as valuable corroborative evidences of the genuine- 

 ness of novelties previously recorded, the occurrence of 

 which in Britain may possibly have been doubted or stig- 

 matized as accidental ; thus : — 



Sesia andreniformis, Laspeyres. The Rev. A. H. 

 Wratislaw records (Ent. 214) having taken, some ten years 

 ago, between Dover and" Folkestone, a specimen of this 

 rarity, of which, I believe, there are only two other British 

 examples extant. He remembers having captured it, as it 

 was in the act of hovering over a clump of dogwood. The 

 specimen in question has recently been submitted to the 

 inspection of Mr. Doubleday, so there cannot be any doubt 

 as to its having been correctly identified. 



Deiopeia pulchella, Linne. Mr. T. H. Briggs (Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. vi. 141) has been fortunate in capturing a male of 

 this beautiful insect at Folkestone, thereby adding another 

 specimen and a new locality for it to the few already known. 

 A second example has been secured by a lady in Monmouth- 

 shire (Ent. 352). Both occurred early in October. 



Leucania albipuncta, S. V. Whilst we much regret 

 the non-appearance in the past season of this recent novelty 

 in spite of the assiduity of its discoverer, it is gratifying to 

 learn that an example was secured some six or seven years 

 since at Yaxley, by Mr. Allis, of York, although up to the 

 present season it had not been identified, but had represented 



