128 LEPIDOPTERA. 



namely, S. Devon, and he notices that, while the habit of 

 IS. cembrce is to shelter amongst Kupatorium, Zelleri on the 

 contrary is only to be caught occasionally, either at light or 

 by beating hedges. 



Eromene ocellea, Haworth. This elegant member of 

 the Crawhidce, which was brought forward in the Annual 

 for '62, on the authority of a specimen captured in Gloucester- 

 shire in the month of March, did not again make its re- 

 appearance till September 6th, 1866, when one was taken at 

 light near Dumfries, and duly recorded in the Ent. Mo. Mag. 

 vol. iii. 139. 



During the past season three examples have been observed 

 by Mr. Gregson (Ent. 249 and 263) in Lancashire and 

 Cheshire, Of this pretty species Prof. Zeller, in his^^Chilo- 

 nidarum et Ci'amhldarum Genera et Species,^ published in 

 1863, remarks that it inhabits the warmest parts of Europe. 

 How then did the insect find itself at Dumfries ? 



The dozen or so foregoing (exclusively of Argynnis Niohe 

 and CalliviorpJia hera, about which the less here said the 

 better), appearing to be second in importance only to newly 

 discovered species, have been brought thus prominently 

 forward at the commencement of these notes. 



Having disposed of them, we will now proceed to discuss 

 other scarce and local captures of the season, such as may 

 appear worthy of notice ; and here it may as well be intimated 

 that the Tables which usually accompany this paper will be 

 omitted for the reason that, unless they represent, far more 

 completely than they have hitherto done, the actual results 

 obtained by the collecting community, they are of com- 

 paratively little value. Certainly, year after year, numerous 

 kind friends and correspondents have done their best to assist 



