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LEPIDOPTERA. 
as a distinct species in Stephens’s Museum Catalogue, I be¬ 
lieve to be only a variety of this. 
Catoptria modestana, H.-S.; first recorded as British 
by Mr. Douglas, in the Zoologist for 1851, page 3129, 
among insects occurring at Charlton Pit—“ Catoptria 
; a new species, probably either decolorana or 
modestana of Herrich-Schaffer. I found it here last Au¬ 
gust.” It is not very uncommon at Charlton, but I am not 
aware that it has occurred elsewhere. 
Catoptria ccecimaculana, Hiibner; first enumerated 
as British in Doubleday’s Catalogue, at page 26. The in¬ 
sect is not at all uncommon at Mickleham and in other 
localities on the chalk in July. 
Catoptria citrana, Hiibner; first enumerated as Bri¬ 
tish in the preface to the Zoologist for 1847, page 11; its 
capture at Southend, Essex, in July, 1848, is recorded by 
Mr. Hodgkinson in the Zoologist for that year, at page 
2330. It is a very conspicuous distinct species, and the 
wonder is that it was not previously known as a British 
species. 
Cnephasia conspersana, Douglas; described by Dou¬ 
glas in the Zoologist for 1846, page 1267, and figured on the 
following page. Mr. Douglas “took three specimens on the 
salt marshes, near St. Osyth, Essex, in July, 1847.” 
Cnephasia cretaceana, Curtis; described and recorded 
by Curtis in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 
2nd Series, vol. v. p. 112—“I never met with this insect 
but once, and then in abundance on the palino* round Dover 
Castle, in July, 1829 ” 
Eriopsela quadrana, Hiibner; first described as Bri¬ 
tish by Douglas in the Zoologist for 1846, page 1269, as 
Ortkotania quadrana . “ The locality of Sanderstead Downs 
there given is erroneous; it should be Darenth Wood, and 
the date May instead of July,”—J. W. D, 
