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Ayrotis porphyrea, Noctua plecta, N. c-nigrum, Hadena pisi, II. dentina, 
Cleocerisviminalis (larva), Xylophasia rurea, Apcunea gemina, A. basilinea, 
Taeniocampa gothica (larva), T. instabilis (larva), Hydrilla arcuosa* 
Caradrina cubicularis, Plusia pulchrina, P. gamma, Habrostola tripartita, 
Phytometra aenea.* Raima crataegata ,* Cabera pusaria,* C. exanthe- 
maria ,* Macaria liturata ,* Fidonia atom aria, F. piniaria, Ellopia 
fasciariaDasydia obfuscata ,* Boarmia repandata, Hybernia progem- 
maria,* H. defoliaria* Ephyra pendularia ,* Acidalia fnmata ,* Melanippe 
tristata, M.subtristata,Melanthiaocellata, Coremia fiuctuata, C. montanata, 
C. didymata, C. pectinataria, C. munitata, C. propugnata, C. ferrugata ,* 
Larentia caesiata, Venusia cambrica,* Emmelesia albulata, E. alche- 
millata* E. blandiata, Cidaria corylata ,* G\ truncata, C. prunata (/ *), 
C. sulfumata,* C. testata (larva), Camptogramma bilineata, Thera variata, 
Hypaipetes impluviata, Cheimatobia boreata* C. brumata, Eupithecia 
nanata, E. lariciata {? *), A’, castigata ,* A. subfulvata var. cognata,* E. 
pulchellata, F. pumilata, E. assimilata ,* A. s at grata, A. fraxinata* A. 
/ constrictata,* Tanagra chaerophyllata .* 
* New. 
NOTES ON THE “WAINSCOTS.” 
(Bead February 19th, 1907, by H. M. EDELSTEN.) 
The subject of our exhibition and discussion this evening, “ The 
Wainscots,” is a family which has always appealed to me very 
strongly. I am afraid I cannot tell you very much about this subject, 
as each year I find I know less and less about them, and my attention 
has been chiefly devoted to one or two species. Perhaps of all the 
genera of British lepidoptera the family Leucania contains more rare 
and casual visitors than any other, as the blanks in our cabinet- 
drawers show. Taking the “ Wainscots ” as a whole, they may be divided 
up as follows :—The more or less dry-land species, comprising, 
pallens, itnpura, comma, turca, lithargyria and conigera. The water- 
loving species :— obsoleta, straminea pudorina, brevilinea, M. flammea, 
S. maritima, C. phragmitidis and lutosa, and the Nonagrias — typhae, 
cannae, xparganii, dissoluta, geminipuncta, and T. fulva, concolor and 
helmanni ; the coast species comprising elyrni, littoralis, favicolor, 
putrescens, T. bondii, and our rare visitors S. musculosa, L. extranea, 
loryi, l-album, vitellina and albipuncta. I include the two latter 
among the visitors, as 1 feel sure they are not true British species; but 
there is an importation every few years which just keeps them going, 
and anyone who has worked the coast, will, I think, agree with me, 
that a cycle of warm summers generally produces some of our 
rarities. 
Now, as regards the life-history of the “ Wainscots ” :— 
