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THE BRITISH NATURALIST. 



[November 



The anterior margin of the upper wings deflexed, the posterior margin 

 toothless, with the whole of the lower segment both deflexed and 

 turned in so as to form a channel in which the inferior wings lie when 

 the insect is at rest. Veins of the anterior wings nine in number, all 

 simple ; the ist from the base; the 2nd and 3rd from the posterior side, 

 and the 4th from the posterior angle of the cell, and running into the 

 posterior segment; the 5th from the anterior angle, and the 6th and 

 7th closely approximated, and the 8th all from the anterior side of the 

 cell, these run into the anterior segment, the 9th rises alone from the 

 base. The ist, 6th, 7th, and 8th veins are very slender. The cell 

 distinct, closed. The transverse veinlet very narrow, arched, with 

 its convexity turned towards the base of the wing " ("Entomologist's 

 Monthly Magazine," Vol. VI., p. 125). 



(To be continued) . 



CALLIMORPHA HERA IN SOUTH DEVON, 



G. C. BIGNELL, F.E.S. 



] think any brother entomologist after reading what I have to say 

 on the captures of Calliniorpha Hera must of necessity admit that it 

 has established itself in South Devon, about 120 specimens having been 

 recorded, including those mentioned in this paper. The first capture 

 in South Devon was by Mr. D'Orville on August 14th, 1871, at 

 Alphington near Exeter, recorded in the " Entomologist," Vol. V., p. 

 44, I knew the gentleman very well and often visited his garden in 

 which the Heva was caught, it adjoined a large nursery, where 

 imported plants in great quantities were received from the continent 

 and I therefore considered at the time that the capture was an 

 accidental importation among moss, &c. used in the packing of bulbs, 

 remembering that the larvae would be then very small in the autunm 

 or early spring at the time of importation. A figure with description, 

 and record of previous captures was published in the following Vol., 

 pp. 33-36 and 239. Other captures are recorded but as they do not 

 relate to my subject I shall pass them over. Ten years after, 

 notifications of captures are made almost annually, viz. : Vol. XIV., 

 p. 227. Mr. Herbert states that he caught a specimen of C. Hera on 

 the 19th August, 1 88 1, in the Teignmouth Road, near Dawlish, vol. 

 XVII., pp. 233 and 234. Mr. Brooks records its capture in Devon- 

 shire and says, " The exact locality I would rather not name," 

 subsequent information proves without doubt it was not far from 

 Dawlish, this was in August, 1882, and two of the moths were 

 obtained ; the following; year he caught three, and in 1884, five, at "a 

 distance of fully three miles from where the specimens of C. Hem were 



