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LEPIDOPTERA. 
it was discovered to be the true Glee a erythrocephala , Hub- 
ner, var. glabra , Duponchel. It was exhibited at the meet¬ 
ing of the Entomological Society, in February, 1849; and, [ 
being an addition to our Noctuee , of course created, interest. I 
I have constantly visited the same locality, in the proper * 
season, but have not succeeded in capturing another. This f 
is, I believe, the only authenticated specimen of the species 
in Britain, and as such is a prize. ,, This insect is not un¬ 
common on the Continent; indeed, Guenee says of it, 
“ nearly as common in some localities as Vaccinii” It has 
quite the appearance of a Gleea f but is nearly double the size I 
of Vaccinii , so that it may be immediately recognized by the I 
veriest tyro. 
Aporophyla australis, Boisd.; mentioned in Curtis’s [ 
Notice of the Genus Agrotis, British Entomology, folio 165, I 
u Pascuea, Nob. Isle of Wightdescribed and figured in 1 
Humphrey’s and Westwood’s British Moths, vol. i. p. 123, 
pi. xxiv. fig. 2. In the Zoologist for 1848, page 2331, Mr. ^ 
Stevens records the capture of four specimens near Heal '■ 
on blades of grass on the sand hills, in the dusk of even- I 
ing, evidently from their fine condition only just emerged J 
fiorn the chrysalis; it has subsequently been taken in some I 
plenty in various parts of the southern coast, and is now in 
most collections. 
Lithomia Solidaginis, Hiibner; first recorded as Bri¬ 
tish by Curtis, in his British Entomology, folio 683, where I 
it is also figured and described. It occurs in great'profu- ( 
sion in the north of England and has also been°met with in j 
Scotland. It is to be found now in the duplicate boxes of 
every collector. 
Hama Dumerilii, Duponchel; only a single British 
specimen is known; it is in the collection of the late Mr. 
George Robertson, of Limehouse. The species is not nn- i 
common m the neighbourhood of Paris, where it occurs on , 
