Volume I Part 43 (1/1)

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.