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in that gentleman's cabinet a small variety of X. lithargyr'ia. 

 Vide Ent. Mo. Mag. v. 278. 



Leucania extranea, Guenee. A third example of this 

 species is mentioned by Mr. Llewelyn (Ent. Mo. Mag. 

 vi. 14) as having been captured by R. Stafford, at Neath, 

 over the flowers of Scabious, on the evening of the 15th of 

 September last. M. Guenee notices the resemblance which 

 this singular species bears to HeUothis armigeraf and, 

 perhaps, like that cosmopolite, it will be found to have an 

 equally wide distribution. Dr. Staudinger does not include 

 it in his catalogue as European. 



Leucania vitellina, Hiibner. A specimen has been 

 taken by Mr. Gates at sugar near Brighton (vide " Science 

 Gossip " for November). Another, from Canterbury, was 

 shown to me barely dead, and I have heard of a third cap- 

 ture, so that the species seems to be now getting well estab- 

 lished. Altogether we have in our collections about seven- 

 teen examples, and may hope in due course that both it and 

 Synia maculosa will turn up in sufficient numbers, when the 

 proper method for working them shall have been discovered. 



Hydrilla palustris, Hiibner. This singular insect, 

 though included in Stainton's excellent "Manual" as British 

 on the authority of a specimen captured near York, in the 

 possession of Mr, Allis of that city, has been expunged from 

 more recent lists, but will once more require to be reinstated. 

 I believe it also occurred some years since near Cambridge, 

 but I cannot find a record of it. In the season just passed, 

 however, Mr. Barrett, of Norwich, has foitunately confirmed 

 these captures by meeting with an example (a (^ ) attracted 

 to light; and now that so acute an observer has obtained a 



