Lfpidoptera of Devon and Cornwall. 
107 
Zoc. — Bog, near Great Mis Tor, Dartmoor ; Falmouth, Faun 
Fal. 
Gen MICRA, Gn 
340 BK. ostrlna, Hub. 
Noctua osirina, Hiib. Noct. pi- fig. 399. 
Micra osirina, West. & Hum. Brit. Moth. i. 243, pi. 53, fig. 21.— Staint. Man. 
i. 300. 
Only at Torquay, where it was taken by Miss Battersby. 
App. — June. 
341. BX. parva, (?) Huh. 
Exromina parva, Hiib. Noct. pi. 77, fig. 356. 
Micra parva, Staint. Ent. Ann. pi. fig. I, 1859. 
First taken, in England, by Dr. Jordan, at Teignmouth, who 
secured a specimen as it was flying about a lamp. In 1858, 
Dr. Battersby found a good habitat of this insect at Torquay, 
where he obtained examples, but the species remains Devonian, 
and very rare. 
App. — June. 
Note. — There is some doubt whether the Micra -parva of Huhner's 
Noctuse can be identical with the little insect found at Torquay and Teign- 
mouth, and which British Lepidopterists have agreed to consider it. 
The insect illustrated under the name of M. parva is most certainly not 
the insect taken in Devonshire ; and the description in the same work is 
too short to be useful, or at least to lead to perfect identification of the 
species. 
The Torquay insect possibly has a good traditional name obtained by 
comparing it with continental specimens designated *' Micra parva, Hiib." 
But, on placing the Devonshire insect by the figure in Hiibner's work, it will 
at once be seen that the markings in the illustration, are opposed to those in 
the insect. 
Perhaps the genus may be revised and monographed by some skilful 
Lepidopterist acquainted with all the known species ; when more than Hkely 
our insect will prove to be neither M. parva nor M. minuta, but a new 
member of the genus. 
