NEW BRITISH SPECIES IN 1854 . 
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collection of Mr. Hodgkinson. Allied to Cassinea, but 
larger and darker, the anterior wings being “ brown grey, 
mixed with reddish grey,” according to Treitschke, who 
says, that “the larva feeds in May and June on birch and 
elm,” and that “ the perfect insect is found on the trunks of 
trees, in early spring, simultaneously with Ceropacha jia - 
vicornis.” 
SPiELOTIS VALLESIACA, H.-S. (fig. 80; not of 
other authors); (see frontispiece, fig. 2*), has been taken by 
Messrs. Carter, Evans, N. Cooke, C. S. Gregson, &c., in 
Wales, at the end of July. Mr. Carter informs me, this 
Noctua is found “ ail along the coast of North Wales, com¬ 
mencing in Flintshire, near the Yale of Clwyd, and thence 
in Denbighshire, adjoining Carnarvonshire, in Llanrwst, 
also at the foot of Snowdon.” Mr. Carter “found it 
stretching itself on stunted plants, and also sitting upon the 
face of rocks.” 
There appears to be some confusion with regard to this 
species amongst the Continental writers; hence I am unable 
to quote it as the Vallesiaca of Boisduval. The Vallesiaca 
of Freyer and Guenee it most certainly is not, for their spe¬ 
cies has in the male pure white underwings. 
The insect is not very nearly allied to any of our previ¬ 
ously known British species. 
MIANA EXPOLITA, Doubleday, n. sp.; taken by 
Messrs. Law and Sang near Darlington. Mr. Law writes— 
“We observed it in great numbers flying in the hot sunshine 
a hout the middle of July, but did not take many.” The 
8 pecies may be readily known, being much smaller and 
darker than fasciuncula, and extremely glossy; the posterior 
" ings are unicolorous grey, with pale grey cilia; the shape of 
die anterior wings is also very distinctive, the hinder margin 
ri °t being elbowed as in fasciuncula and strigilis. 
* Expands 1J inch : the figure is slightly magnified. 
