Insects. 



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Tethea subtusa, three, beaten out of pop- 

 lar. 



Hadena salura, one specimen. 



H. adusta, two pupae in garden. 



H. contigua, scarce, on trunks of trees. 



H. Genistae, ditto. 



Aplecta tincta, two, in garden. 



A. advena, common in garden. 



A. herbida, rare, by beating elm and oak. 



Xylina semibrunnea, scarce, on ivy and 

 reared. 



X. rhizolitha, common on trunks of firs. 



Calocampa vetusta, one, on ivy. 



C. exoleta, not rare on ivy, and reared. 



Acontia luctuosa, very scarce and local, 

 three specimens. 



Phytometra aenea, common, but local, 



Hipparchus Papilionarius, scarce, two in 

 beech and fir wood. 



Ellopia fasciaria, rare, over nettles. 



Macaria lituraria, common, in beech and 

 fir wood, by beating. 



Eupisteria Hepararia, ditto. 



Biston Prodromaria, rare, pupae at roots 

 of elms, and reared. 



Boarmia Abietaria, pupae not rare at the 



roots of fir, in the above wood. 

 Eubolia Cervinaria, larvae common on 



hollyhocks. 

 Coremia didymaria, common. 

 C. Olivaria, scarce, beech and fir wood. 

 Scotosia Ehamnaria, rare, garden. 

 Melanippe hastaria, rare, beech and fir 



wood. 

 Zerene albicillaria, ditto. 

 Emmelesia Blomeraria, common, ditto. 

 Abraxas Ulmaria, extremely common, 



ditto. 

 Ephyra trilinearia, common, ditto. 

 E. Omicronaria, scarce, in lanes. 

 Bapta temeraria, common, but local. 

 Eupithecia sobrinaria, three, in garden. 

 E. subumbraria ? scarce, in garden. 

 E. innotaria, rare, in gardem 

 E. consignaria, one, in garden. 

 E. venosaria, ditto. 

 E. piperaria, scarce, in garden. 

 E. tenuiaria, rare, in garden. 

 Siona dealbaria, one, beech and fir wood. 

 &c, &c. 



— T. Greene ; Halton Rectory ', Wendover, Bucks. 



A few Remarks on some of the Species of the Genus Oporabia. — 1. O. neglectala. — 

 I captured this species in Perthshire, plentifully, in September, 1851, as well as in 

 previous seasons. The insect rests by day high on the branches of the oak, and when 

 disturbed takes wing to other oak-branches to rest. I have never seen it at rest on the 

 trunks of trees, palings, or on rocks, or among short bushes. The colour of this spe- 

 cies varies but little, only becoming of a darker shade in a few individuals, but the 

 curved markings are never obliterated. I have not seen a plain variety of it, or a 

 small specimen of either sex. Both sexes have ample wings, which are uniformly of 

 a large size ; in the female the wings expand somewhat less, yet still they are more 

 ample in proportion than in the male. The antennae appear stronger than those of 

 the other species. The constancy in size of this insect, together with the marking in 

 all the specimens, certainly speaks well for specific distinction. 2. O. dilutata. — This 

 species varies considerably in size as well as in colour ; in fact, this variation being 

 much greater than in the kindred species, will go far to show a characteristic distinc- 

 tion. I have seen a greater number of males having the superior wings quite plain, 

 light and dark varied, than with marked wings. Those entomologists who wish to ex- 

 amine and study the species of this genus, I would recommend to obtain fifty speci- 

 mens at least of each species, and to compare one lot of specimens with the other, but 

 not to select just one or two specimens only : and insects captured in one (or the same 

 sort of) locality, should be kept separate, and all incidents noted. 3. O. autumnaria. 

 — This species is readily separated from Nos. 1 and 2, by the glossy silver and fineness 

 of the wings, and the slenderness of the antennae. The specimens vary in size as well 



