NEW BRITISH SPECIES SINCE 1835 . 
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was observed by the Rev. Jos. Greene, in Gloucestershire, 
on hazel, as recorded in the Zoologist for 1852, page 3494. 
Gluphisia crenata, Esper; first recorded as British 
by Mr. Doubleday, in the Entomologist, page 156—" Cha- 
onia crenata: the first British specimen of this insect was 
taken at Ongar Park Wood, in June, 1839, and a second 
in the same place, in June of the present year. Both speci¬ 
mens were females.” The species is described and figured 
in Humphrey's and Westwood’s British Moths, vol. i. p. 73, 
pi. xiv. fig. 15. A specimen reared by the Rev. Jos. Greene, 
from a larva found on a poplar, near Hal ton, Bucks, on the 
18th of August, 1853, was exhibited at the meeting of the 
Entomological Society, in April last. 
Gastropacha ilicifolia, Lin. This insect had long 
been a reputed British species, and is described and figured 
in Humphrey’s and Westwood’s British Moths, vol. i. p. 61, 
pi. xii. fig. 8 ; but no British specimen bad been seen by any 
of the Entomologists of the present day, till in 1851, Mr. 
Atkinson met with a specimen at Cannoch Chase, May 17th, 
as recorded by him in the Zoologist for 1852, page 3396: 
“It was clinging to a dead sprig of heather, apparently but 
lately emerged from the pupa. From its great resemblance 
to a withered leaf, it would not probably have caught my 
e ye, had I not luckily knelt down within a few inches of it, to 
pin a small Tortrix. This fine addition to our Bombyces 
w as announced at the June meeting of the Entomological 
Society, and exhibited at the subsequent one in July.” The 
insect has also been bred by [Mr. W. Green, of Eccleshali 
Hoad, Sheffield,] but it is still in very few collections. Ac¬ 
cording to Treitscbke, the larva feeds from June to August, 
on sallow and bilberry. 
Sterrhopteryx opacella, H.-S.; discovered in the 
^New Forest, by Mr. Weaver, who found the larvae in the 
summer of 1848, as recorded by Mr. Newman in the Zoo- 
