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LEPIDOPTERA. 
Epunda Lichenea, Hiibner; first taken in this country 
by Mrs. Vines, in the New Forest, in the autumn of 1847, 
and first enumerated as British in Doubleday's Catalogue, 
page 10; subsequently it occurred on the Lancashire coast, 
“ nearly 100 specimens of this insect having been taken at 
New Brighton ” in September, 1850, as recorded by Mr. 
Robson in the Zoologist for 1850, page 2958. It has also 
occurred in plenty in the Isle of Wight. 
Acronycta MYRiCiE, Guenee; this species, which is in 
our lists as Acronycta Euphorbia , is first recorded as being 
taken in this country by Mr. Weaver in the Zoologist for 
1846, page 1439—“ from May 27th to June 15th, at rest on 
rocks in open moorsit has since been taken by nearly 
every collector who has penetrated into Perthshire during 
the season, and is in most of our collections. It is described 
by Guenee in his “Histoire Naturelle des Noctu&ites,” 
being placed immediately after Acronycta Euphorbia, 
Euphrasia and abscondita . Guenee says—“ This pretty 
Acronycta appears to me very distinct from the allied 
species." The larva feeds on Myrica gale and Salk 
caprcea . 
Xanthia gilvago, W. V.; first described and recorded 
as British in Humphrey’s and Westwood’s British Moths, 
vol. i. p. 254, with the remark—“The true gilvago is now 
for the first time introduced into the British lists, on the 
authoiity of J. F. Stephens, Esq., who has received it from 
the neighbourhood of Doncaster, where it was captured last 
September in some plenty by the Rev. Mr. Preston,” [or, 
more correctly, by his friend, Mr. Hugh Reid.] It has 
since been repeatedly taken in the same locality, and also in 
some other parts of Yorkshire, and is now distributed in most 
collections. Guenee says—" It is very common in France, 
he larva feeding on the seeds of the elm.” A snecies (Xan- 
t aa ° ceUaris ) vcr >' c l°sely allied to it, and only recently dis- 
