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LEPIDOPTERA. 
THE NEW BRITISH SPECIES IN 1854. 
ANTHROCERA MINOS, W. V. 5 (see frontispiece, 
fig. I* 1 ); first recorded as British in the Zoologist for last 
January, page 4180, by Mr. Newman—“ I am informed by 
my friend, Mr. Thomas H. Allis, that about a dozen specimens 
of Zygoma Minos were taken last summer on the west coast 
of Ireland, by Henry Milner, Esq., of Nunappleton, near 
York.” On the 27th of last June, Mr. A. G. More sent me 
a number of specimens for distribution among the members 
of the Entomological Society; and in his letter dated from 
Ardrahan, he says, “ the Anthrocera is quite plentiful about 
here, but the weather has been so bad, that I have found some 
difficulty in procuring really good specimens. It appears 
about a fortnight earlier than the spotted species ( Filipffl* 
dulcc). I first captured it in 1851, but did not recognize its 
value until I saw some of Mr. Milner’s specimens at Don¬ 
caster. I believe his locality was in Clare, and mine is in 
Galway, which shows the range of the species may be 
somewhat extensive in these parts.” This is readily distin¬ 
guished from our other British species, the anterior wings 
having three elongate red marks, and not round spots; on 
the Continent several species are marked in this way, and 
it is very possible some of these may be found in this country 
I mention this to show, that if a collector meets with an 
Anthrocera with the three elongate red marks, it does not 
follow, as a matter of course, that it will be Minos. 
PETASIA NUBECULOSA, Esper. A specimen of 
this, taken by Mr. Cooper at Rannoch last spring, is in the 
* Expands 1£ inch : the figure is slightly magnified. 
