Lepidoptera of Devon and Cornwall. 
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Gen. XiAPUVGlMCA, Gn. 
189. Zi. exlgrua, Hub. 
Noctua exigua, Hiib. Noct. pi. 362 ( ? bad plate). 
Laphygma exigua, Staint. Man. i. 203. ; Ent. Ann. 1857, pi. fig. 6. 
The only authority for considering this insect Devonian, is that 
of Dr. Battersby, who captured a specimen at Torquay. The gas- 
lamps at Plymouth have yielded, however, injured specimens at 
various times, that could not be assigned to any other species than 
this. 
Gen. NEURIA, Gn. 
190. N. SaponarisB, Bork. ; Esper. (?) 
Pha-Nociua Saponaria, Bork. Europ. Scbmett. iv. 370. 
Eadena jSaponarice, West. & Hum. Brit. Moth. i. 168, pi. 34, fig. 11. 
Neuria SaponaricB, Staint. Man. i. 203. 
Rare and local. 
App. — July. 
Loc. — Whitsand-cliffs ; Crabtree ; Slapton ; — Torquay, Dr. B. 
Gen. KEZ.XOPHOBVS, Bois. 
191. B« popularls, Fah. 
Noctua popularis, Fab. Mant. ii, 138. 
Heliophobus popularis, West. & Hum. Brit. Moth. pi. 35. — Staint. Man. i. 203. 
Common. Easily attracted by light. 
App.-^Augnsi and September. 
Doc. — Hoe, Greenbank, Cattedown, Plymouth ; Bickleigh-vale ; 
Ivybridge;— Barnstaple, G.F.M.; Exeter, E. P.; Torquay, R.B.R.; 
Teignmouth, Dr. J. 
192. B. hispida^ Hub. 
Noctua hispida, Hiib. Noct. pi. 166, fig. 784-6. 
Heliophobus hispida, Staint. Man. i. 204. 
First discovered as a British insect and Devonian by Mr. Ball, 
at Exmouth. Being strictly a coast insect, it is necessarily local. 
It is not however, at all rare in its native haunts, which are where 
