73 A LrST OF MACRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



by Mr. E. G. Meek, in the Warren, and M. P. Mabille, in 

 Corsica. The oblong blackish eggs are deposited on the 

 leaves and stalks of its food plants. 



Next we have a Bombyx, or rather Pseudo-bombyx, Clos- 

 tera anachorefa, a handsome addition to our moth fauna, of 

 which I was myself the fortunate discoverer. My first ac- 

 quaintance with the species was made in the larval state ; 

 eleven caterpillars, found feeding on Ontario Poplar in one 

 of the plantations along the Lower Sandgate Road, producing 

 as many moths ; a single female of which became literally the 

 " mother of thousands," so that the " Anchorite" is now in 

 every cabinet. Several other collectors have subsequently 

 taken the larvae. 



Then comes a Noctua, Leucania albipuncta, discovered here 

 last season by the Messieurs Briggs, of St. John's, Oxon^ 

 who were lucky in securing a couple of examples at sugar ; 

 the insect may be known from its congener L. lithargyria, to 

 which it bears considerable resemblance, by its smaller size, 

 its less concolorous appearance, and the greater conspicuity 

 of its white discoidal dot. It is on the wing early in August, 



The fourth Folkestone Moth, Tapinostola Bondii a bone- 

 dust-white insect, with wings expanding about an inch and a 

 quarter, presents a curious little histoirette of its own. It is 

 certainly astounding that so conspicuous a species should 

 have been flitting freely, every afternoon towards dusk in the 

 fashionable month of July, under our very noses, and yet 

 have escaped detection up to 1858, and it is still more sur- 

 prising that in the eleven years following but two fresh 

 localities, namely Lyme Regis and Mount Parnassus, should 

 have been discovered for a fly so locally abundant in its 

 habitats. Of course it was very hard to believe that a Noctua, 

 of which I had secured and distributed some thousand indi- 

 viduals among brother collectors, could possibly be new to 

 science, and it was therefore not to be wondered at that our 

 great authorities should try every means to sink the name 

 which I had bestowed upon it in honour of my esteemed 

 friend, Frederick Bond. First it was proposed that it would 

 prove to be the Nonagria concolor of Guenee, then that it might 

 be an aberrant form of Miana arcuosa, and lastly that it was 

 the N. extrema of Hiibner ; this latter theory for a time held 

 ground, until Professor Zeller showed that the figure of 



