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Page 155, " Xylira semibmnnea of English authors is the true X. petriiicata, and petrificata of English cabinets is the 

 X. oculata of Germar." H. Doubleday, in Zoo!., p. 332. 



Page 165, " Hadena ochracea, of Stephens, is the Dianthesia Echii, of Boisduval." H. Doubleday, in Zool., p. 332. 



Page 178, Apamea unanimis, Ochs. — " This is the species known in this country under the name of A. secalina, but the 

 secalina of HUbner is a mere variety of A. didyina." H. Doubledaj', in Zool., p. 332. 



Page 178, " The insect taken at York, by my friend, Thomas H. Allis, and supposed to be Apamea unanimis, is Orthosia 

 congener of Boisduval, of which Caradrina iners of Treitschke is a variety." H. Doubleday, in Zool., p. 332. 



Page 179, '" Miana literosa, Stephens, is the JI. suffuruncula of Ochs." H. Doubleday, in Zool , p. 332 



Page 181, Jliana Duponchelii — Boisduval. "This species occurs in Britain, and is probably the Noctua minima of 

 Haworth " H. Doubleday, in Zool., p. 332. 



Page 187, " Jliselia compta of British cabinets is Noctua conspersa, A\'. V. I have not seen a British specimen of 

 compta, though it probably occurs here. The genus Dianthesia, of Boisduval, is a most natural one, although the British* 

 species belonging to it have been placed in three or four different genera, and associated with species to which they seem very 

 little allied. The following are the British species : — 



1. Dianthesia albimacula, Borkh. 



2. D. conspersa, W. V. 



3. D. cajsia, W. V. 



4. D. capsincola, Borkh. 



5. D. cucubali, W. V. 



6. D. Echii, Borkh." H. Doubleday, in Zool., p. 332. 



Page 214, Nonagria crassicorius. — " The eggs of this species are deposited on the edges of the leaves of reeds in the 

 autumn, and are not hatched till the following April.'" See H. Longley's Notes on this species, in Zoologist, p. 581. 



Page 224, " CucuUia solidaginis, Stephens, appears to be C. Gnaphalii, HUbner." H. Doubleday, in Zool., p 332. 



Page 236, Heliothis armigera.— Hiibner, Treitschke, &c. A female of this additional species was taken in September 1840, 

 at Salford, near Manchester (R. S. Edleston, in Zool., p. 260). 



Page 251, " Brepha notha and Parthenias. The specimen in the Linucean cabinet, with Linne's label on the pin 

 ' Parthenias,' is the larger species, with simple antenna, or, what in this country is usually called, ' Notha.' Thus proving 

 that the Continental lepidopterists are correct. The species will stand thus : — 

 Bkepha, HUbner. 



1. Parthenias, Linn. {Notha, Haworth, &c.) 



2. Notha, HUbner. {Parthenias, Haworth, Stephens, &c.)" H. Doubleday, in Zool., p. 399. 



BRITISH MOTHS. VOL. II. 



Pages 54 and 57. By a strange series of mistakes the figure of the true Lobophora polycommata, given in Plate 68, 

 fig. 17, from the British Museum specimen, was stated by Mr. Humphreys (in his description of that plate) to have been 

 copied from HUbner, whilst figure 12,. of that plate, instead of being copied from the Sluseum specimen of polycommata, was 

 from HUbner ; instead, moreover, of being a copy of HUbner's figure of polycommata, his figure of Geom. sscularia was 

 inadvertently copied. jMy observations, in p. 57, were founded on Mr. Humphrey's statements, and it was not until the 

 sheet was published that I was made aware of these errors. The reference in p. 57, is, accordingly, to the correct figure, 

 but the Obs. requires that the words " drawn from the British Museum specimen" should be erased. 



Page 79, line \,for fig. 17, read fig. 18. 



Page 79, line 30, after fig. 21, add fig. 22. 



Page 80, line 6, after fig. 24, add fig. 25. 



Page 105, Scopula prunalis. — In the Zoologist, p. 774, is rather a doubtful account, to the effect that this species is 

 parasitic upon Phlogophora meticulosa, by Mr. W. Turner, who thinks he observed its caterpillar issuing from the chrysalis of 

 the latter insect, and, if he mistake not, the parasite, having changed to a chrysalis, came forth as Margaritia prunalis. 



Page 119, ^(/fZ Species 11, Antithesia Grevillana, Curtis, Brit. Ent., pi. 567. Expands 8 lines ; fore wings long and 

 narrow, variegated with interrupted black transverse lines of spots ; a large space at the apex white, forming two claws on 

 the internal margin, with a long, gray, oblique line, arising at the posterior angle, and furcate at the extremity of the apex ; 

 black, with white dots, fonning two oblique stripes ; fringe black ; hind wings yeUovvish-brown, palest at the base. Taken 

 in Sutherlandshire, in July, by ^Messrs. Greville and Wilson. 



Page 123, Add Species 2, Pseudotomia nigropunctana (Plate 83, fig. 3). Measures 5 lines in expanse ; fore -wings pale 

 buff, delicately irrorated with gray scales, and marked with numerous minute and not very well-defined black dots ; the base 

 of the wing, on the inside, also darker ; on the disc, beyond the middle, is a small silvery dot, and beyond it, parallel with 

 the apical margin, is an abbreviated, curved, silvery stt"eak ; hind wings white in the middle, vpith the margins black ; the 



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