Page 28. HERSE CONVOLVULI.--Reported from several English counties, August
and September, 1911, and again in 1915. In 1917 the species seems to have
been more widely spread over our islands, specimens being recorded from
Ireland and Shetland.
Page 41. PHRYXUS LIVORNICA.--Further records are: In July, 1909, a dead
male specimen was found under an electric light standard at Exeter, and one
was noted on a bowling green at Blackpool in October. Specimens were
recorded from Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Devon, and Cornwall in 1911. On
January 19, 1912, a male was taken from a shrub in a garden at Tavistock.
Thirty-five were captured in South Cornwall between May 9 and 23 of the
same year, and single specimens were reported from North Wales, Norfolk,
Dorset, also in May.
Page 47. DAPHNIS NERII.--Further records: Ilfracombe, September 22, 1909;
Sydenham, September 24, 1910; Eastbourne (August 15), Ashford, 1911;
Folkestone, August 30, 1916, on trunk of poplar tree; Littleover,
Derbyshire, in a conservatory, August 18, 1917; Dovercourt, Essex,
September, 1919. {334}
Page 141. NOLA CONFUSALIS.--A grey form of this species, ab. _columbina_,
Image, has been recorded from Epping Forest.
Page 146. SARROTHRIPA REVAYANA.--A number of forms of this species are
named and described by Mr. Sheldon in the _Entomologist_ for 1919.
Page 268. LUPERINA GUENEEI.--Over thirty years ago the late Mr. Baxter, of
St. Anne's, Lancashire, sent me a specimen of _Luperina_ that he had
captured in his district. This I considered to be a form connecting
_gueneei_ with _nickerlii_, and that both were forms of _L. testacea_.
Since that time _gueneei_ has been found in some numbers on the Lancs.
coast, and has been recognized as a distinct species, and its identity with
_nickerlii_ established.
The earlier published history of this species in Britain may here be
quoted: "The late Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson, in a note on _Luperina gueneei_,
published in the _Entomologist_ for 1885, vol. 54, wrote:--'In 1860 or
1861, T. Porter (still living) brought me two fine specimens of a moth I
did not know. They were of both sexes. I purchased them from him, and sent
them on to the Rev. H. Burney, who forwarded them to Henry Doubleday. From
him they went to Guenée, and he returned them with the remark that he had a
specimen in his collection marked as a variety of _L. testacea_, but he was
quite satisfied they represented a good species when he saw both sexes. H.
Doubleday then named them after Guenée, as the latter was evidently the
original captor. I saw Porter again, and he told me another man, by name H.
Stephenson, had one. They took three in all near the ferry at Rhyl, North
Wales. I sent Porter again, and went myself, but we failed to find more
afterwards. I bought the specimen from Stephenson, and sent it to Miss
Sulivan, of Fulham, where, I suppose, it remains. I think it was a
female.'" {335}
According to Barrett (_British Lepidoptera_, IV., p. 335), the three North
Wales specimens "were raked from overhanging edges of sandhills."
Page 294. HYDROECIA CRINANENSIS.
"HYDROECIA CRINANENSIS, Burrows. Larger than _H. nictitans_. F.-w.
slightly pointed at the apex, bright red-brown, longitudinal and
transverse lines very distinct, fringes concolorous. Orbicular stigma,
lighter than the ground colour. Reniform stigma orange, full, fairly
straight edged inwardly, lower lobe projecting outwardly, interior
lines faint. H.-w. red-brown, darker towards the outer margin; fringes
yellow, the yellow colour intruding in dots upon the darker margin.
"Type specimen taken by Mr. A. W. Bacot at Crinan Canal, September,
1899."
The above is extracted from an instructive paper by the Rev. C. R. N.
Burrows, entitled, "On the _nictitans_ group of the genus _Hydroecia_,
Gn.," published in the _Transactions of the Entomological Society_, 1911,
pp. 738-749, plates li.-lviii. In this paper specific rank is also claimed
for _lucens_, Frr., and _paludis_, Tutt, both of which have been considered
as merely forms of _H. nictitans_, L.
_H. crinanensis_ has been recorded from Inveran, Crinan Canal, Aberfeldy,
and Liddelbank, in Scotland; from Lough Foyle and Enniskillen, in Ireland;
and from Bolton and Burnley, in England.
Page 298. NONAGRIA NEURICA.--In 1907, when the first edition of this volume
was published, the fact of _N. neurica_ being a British species was not
truly ascertained. In the following year, however, some specimens of
_Nonagria_, which were not identical with _N. dissoluta_, Treit. =
_arundineata_, Schmidt, were named _edelsteni_, Tutt. {336}
Quite a number of _N. edelsteni_ were obtained by Messrs. Wightman and
Sharp in the Cuckmere Valley of Sussex, July, 1908.
At a meeting of the Entomological Society of London, held on November 4,
1908, a series of bred _edelsteni_ from Sussex was exhibited by Mr.
Edelsten.
By a consensus of opinion among entomologists, Sussex specimens are now
considered to be true British representatives of _neurica_, Hubn., Fig.
381.
Page 332. PEUCEPHILA ESSONI, Hamps.--On July 12, 1909, Mr. Esson, of
Aberdeen, captured a specimen of a noctuid moth at sugar on a fir tree.
This he sent to me for identification. As the insect was a novelty to me,
it was submitted to Sir George F. Hampson, who, finding that the moth was
not only a species new to science, but not even congeneric with any other
noctuid, described and figured it as indicated on page 332 of this volume.
Although keenly searched for, no other example of the species had been
detected up to the end of 1919.