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ERRATA AND CORRIGENDA. 



the reai'ing of the iusects from the iavva state, although the subterranean habits of many of the species present great 

 obstacles. Many larvae feed only by night, and sevei-al French collectors of the present day have met with great success by 

 searching for tlie caterpillars by night with a lamp. 



P. 111. — Lyteea albiraacula, omitted in Mr. H. Doubleday's list of British Noctuie { Entom. 078). 



P. 114. — Chersotis agathina, Boisduval, (referred to m p. 110, as Agrotis agathina, Curt., sugg.) is given by 

 Air. Doubleday as distinct, and introduced into the genus Agrotis from Boisduval's note; its synonymy appears very 

 confused. (Index Eur. Lcp. p. 104.) 



P. 117. — Agrotis annexa, has also occurred at Worcester, according to Mr. Bentley. 



P. 119, line 11— Fig. 16, Agrotis Marshallana. 



■p. 121. — Agrotis sagitiffera is omitted as British by Mr. H. Doubleday. 



P. 122. — Agrotis funiosa is regarded by Guenee and Mr. H. Doubleday as a distinct species. 



P. 123. — Agrotis pascuea, Curt., is the signifera of Continental authors, as I am informed by Mr. Stephens. 



P. 124. — Agrotis nebulosa, Stephens, is given by Mr. H. D(.>ubleday as a variety of N. Ripee, Hubner. 



P. 12.'), line o(5 — -for " Erythrocephala " read " Dahlii." 



P. 12(!. — Graphiphora subrosea %vas accidentally omitted in Mr. H. Doubleday's list. 



P. 127. — Graphiphora crassa is the Noctua ravida, Hiibner, and has been reared at the beginning of July, by Mr. H. 

 Doubleday, from a larva found at night on a sallow, in company with the larvse of other species of Graphiphora. 



P. 129. — AV'e are informed by Mr. H. Doubleday that the Graphiiihora tristigma of Stephens is not the G. tristigma 

 of Ochsenheimer, but is apparently identical with the G. rhomboidea, Ochs. 



P. 133, Mne 25 — -for " Orthosia lunosa," read " O. humilis." 



P. 135. — Noctua subplumbea, Haw. is stated by Mr. Doubleday to be distinct from Orthosia gracilis. 



P. 126, line 13— /or " fig. 9," read "fig. 10." 

 — line 14— for "fig. 10," read " fig. 9." 



P. 140, line 24— /or " fig. 9," read " fig. 10." 



P. 147. — The Rev. F. Lockey informs me that many specimens of Grammesia Ijilinea were taken a few years ago at 

 Swanswick, near Bath. 



P. 210 — SpeciesG, Xanthi.\ gii.vago. [fulvago.) 



Syn. — Noctua ijilvago, Fabricius ; Hubner ; Esper ; Treitschke ; (but not of Haworth, which is a variety of X. 

 A'brt»a 0(W/ar)>, Borkhausen. Noctua pallcago, HiJliuer; Treitschke; (variety.) 



This species measures nearly li inch in the expanse of the fore- wings, which are of a rather dull orange colour, the 

 central portion occupied by a grayish lead-coloured patch in which the stigmata are placed, the anterior rounded, and tlie 

 outer one, with the hind part, dark-coloured ; towards the base of the wmg, and beyond the stigmata, are the strigs rather 

 indistinctly traced, with a subapical row of black dots, followed by a marginal series of dusky spots, the hind wings whitish 

 with a sub-marginal dusky streak more visible towards the anal angle. The tnje gilvago is now, for the first time, intro- 

 duced into the British lists, on the authority of J. F. Stephens, Esq., who has received it from the neighbourhood of 

 Doncaster, where it was captured last September in some plenty, by the Rev. Mr. Preston. 



PI. 63, figs. 19 & 20. — Mr. Stephens informs me that the insect represented in figure 20 is the true Hemigeomctra 

 mintita of Haworth, and that that represented in figure 19 is a different species, to which the name of minuta has been 

 misapplied, in the collection of the British Museum, it being the Noctua Paula of Hiibner. 



P. 214, Note *. — Mr. Edward Doubleday informs me that he had determined Nonagria crassicomis to be identical with 

 Leucania Bathyerga before sending the specimens to M. Pierret. 



P. 21G. — Mr. Samuel Stevens first apprised me, on the authority of Mr. E. Doubleday, that Nonagria V'ectis, Curt., " is 

 like Straminea," Treitschke, as I find by a note which I had mislaid at the time of writing the description of that insect. 



P. 223. — Cucullia Lyclmitis is in the cabinet of Mr. Stephens. 



P. 224, line 14 — for "fine species," read "five species" (viz., C. umbratica, Tanaceti, Lactucas, Lucifuga, and 

 chamomillfe). Mr. Bentlej' possesses a specimen of this group which may possibly belong to a sixth allied species. 



P. 220. — Cucullia Prenanthis is in Mr. Stephens' cabinet, from Riddlesdown, near Croydon, and from Birch \\^ood,Kent. 



Heliothis Ononis is given by Boisduval, in his Eur. Lepid. Ind. Meth., as a native of England, but we are not aware 

 of any specimen known to have been captured in this country. 



