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LEPIDOPTERA. 
Zoologist for 1847, page 1881. Mr. Bond met with it at 
Yaxley in August, “ sparingly at sugar;” it has since been 
taken in some plenty at Yaxley and Whittlesea, and is in 
most collections. 
Nonagria neurica, Hiibner; likewise first recorded as 
being taken in this country by Mr. Bond at page 1881 of I 
the Zoologist for 1847 ; subsequently taken in some plenty at I 
Whittlesea-Mere, and now in most collections. 
Nonagria Cannae, Och.; first enumerated as British in 
Doubleday’s Catalogue at page 7. It was first taken in 1846 
by Mr. English; since then it has been freely bred by the j 
collectors at Yaxley. 
Cucullia LycifNiTis, Rambur; first recorded as British I 
by Mr. Stevens in the Zoologist for 1845 at page 1142-* I 
“ I have annually, for the last three or four seasons, obtained I 
the caterpillars of this rare shark from off the leaves and 
flowers of the mullein found in a chalk-pit at Arundel, in 
Sussex.” The larva feeds in August and September, whereas | 
that of C. Verbasci feeds in June and July. As the insect I 
is still scarce in collections it may be well to bear this cir* 1 
cumstance in mind. 
Cloantha perspicillaris* Lin.; a single specimen I 
taken by the late Mr. Paget near Yarmouth, the capture of 
which is recorded in the Entomologist, June, 1841, page 128, 
is in the collection of Mr. Doubleday. The species is figured 
and described in Humphrey’s and Westwood’s British Moths, I 
vol. i. p. 230, pi. li. fig. 1. According to Guenee the species I 
is widely dispersed on the Continent, but “ never very abun* ] 
dant. u The larva feeds in July and August on Hyperi* 1 
Heliotiiis armigera, Hiibner; first recorded as British 
by Mr. Edleston in the Zoologist for 1843, page 260—“ a , 
beautiful female specimen having been taken in September, 
1840, of! the door of an outhouse belonging to my friend 
