LEPIDOPTERA. 
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very considerable; and though most have been enumerated 
in Doubleday’s Catalogue of British Lepidoptera, and the 
Museum Catalogue of Stephens, yet as neither of those 
works contains any notices of their captures, nor in whose 
collections they are extant, those who do not mix with the 
Entomological throng, but derive their information from 
books, are little aware how completely the entire science has 
been bouleverse in the last twenty years. 
I should premise that Erebia Melampus , described and 
figured by Newman, in the Zoologist for 1844, page 729, as 
Knew British Butterfly, has long since been consigned to 
tbe tomb of oblivion, as being only the Scotch variety of 
Cassiope; and now proceed to the 
NEW BRITISH SPECIES SINCE 1835. 
Procris Globul arias, Hiibner, which had long been 
among the reputed British species, was first recorded, as 
actually caught in this country, by Mr. Weir, in the 
Zoologist for 1845, page 1085. Mr. Weir took the insect 
in some plenty on the Downs near Lewes, and it has subse¬ 
quently been taken nearly every year by the collectors of 
that town and is in all our cabinets. A specimen taken at 
Cheltenham, by Mr. Douglas, in July, 1853, was exhibited 
at the ensuing meeting of the Entomological Society. 
Phragmatascia Arundinis, Hiibner ( Zeuzera Arun¬ 
dinis, Doubl.), was first recorded as British by Mr. Double- 
da ?> i n the Entomologist, page 156. It is figured and 
described in Humphrey’s and Westwood’s British Moths, 
T °C i. p. 49, pi. viii. fig. 7, 8. In 1848, two other speci¬ 
mens were taken in the same locality, Holme Fen, as re¬ 
corded by Mr. Doubleday, in the Zoologist for 1848, page 
^36. In 1850, Mr. Doubleday writes in the Zoologist, page 
^!j“This insect has occurred in great profusion in the 
Neighbourhood Whittlesea-Mere this season. The larva? 
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