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Mr. John Thomas, of Oldfield Lane, Salford, who liberally 
added it to my cabinet.” A specimen taken near Mickleham 
is in the collection of Mr. Bedell, and other specimens have 
been taken in various localities. 
Heliothis scutosa, W. V. ; first recorded as British by 
Curtis, who figures and describes it in his British Entomo¬ 
logy, folio 595 ; the specimen from the collection of Mr. 
Heysham, “ was taken on the banks of the river Caldew, a 
little below the village of Dalston, in July, 1835.” 
I am not aware of any specimens having occurred sub¬ 
sequently. According to Freyer, the larva feeds on Arte¬ 
misia campestris . 
Ophiodes lunaris, W. V.; first enumerated as British 
in Doubleday’s Catalogue, page 11; a single specimen was 
taken by Captain Chawner in Hampshire. Of this species 
Guenee says, i( common in dry woods throughout Europe 
in May.” “The larva feeds in July on oak.” 
Dasydia torvaria, Hiibner ; thus noticed at page 678, 
v °l* ii*, of Humphrey’s and Westwood’s British Moths— 
“Many years ago my friend Templeton showed me a black 
Geometrideous moth, much larger than 3f. Cheer ophyllata, 
tthich he had captured on one of the mountains in Ireland. 
1 have seen nothing like the insect in any collection that 
I have examined.” In Stephens’s Museum Catalogue this 
specimen is enumerated as Dasydia torvaria. At the meet- 
ln g of the Entomological Society in November, 1853, “ Mr. 
Westwood exhibited his original sketch of a moth taken at 
Ballymena, in Ireland, by Mr. Templeton ; Mr. Westwood 
' v as now of opinion, from reference to Duponchel’s figure 
an d description, that it was Cleogene Peletieraria w hether 
^'•Stephens or Mr. Westwood is correct in the name given 
^ or Bds species, future observation must decide. 
Eupisteria Carbonaria, Lin .; first noticed as British 
Mr. Doubleday in the Zoologist for 1847, page 1883, 
