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.