6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Jan., '12 



Concerning the white spots on the under side on our three 

 specimens of rubi, from Cornwall and Dartmoor, England, the 

 spots are clear white on the green background. In dumetorum 

 the white spots are heavily bordered inwardly with brown. 

 This brown border is very clearly shown in T. sheridani, which 

 is much like dumetorum except that it has a broad white line, 

 complete in some and slightly broken in other specimens, clear 

 across both wings. 



In dumetorum the most noticeable and persistent spots are 

 two in number on the secondary, one being midway on the 

 costa, the other nearly in the center of the wing between the 

 second and third median nervules. These are frequently 

 strengthened by other smaller spots tending to form an irregu- 

 lar postmedian line. On the 149 in our collections and the 29 

 in Mr. Newcomer's, one or the other of these spots persists in 

 all but ten specimens which are spotless even when viewed 

 through a low power glass. One specimen has a faint dot on 

 costa of one wing only, while another specimen has a faint dot 

 in center of one secondary. Two have only the costal spots on 

 both secondaries, and fourteen have only the center spots, some 

 clear and others faint. The predominant form has two spots, 

 there being 108 of these. There are thirty others with two 

 spots on the secondaries, but with faint brown markings on 

 the primaries also ; some of these are strengthened by traces of 

 white spots. 



Two have three spots on secondaries ; two have three on 

 secondaries and traces on primaries ; three have three on sec- 

 ondaries and a distinct row of white spots on primaries ; two 

 have four spots on secondaries and a row of spots on prim- 

 aries ; finally, three have an irregular row of five spots on sec- 

 ondaries, the costal and central being large and predominant. 

 Summing up in percentages, about 21 per cent, have spots on 

 both wings, 73^ per cent, on secondaries only, 5*/> per cent. 



on neither wing. 



T. AFFINIS. 



Mr. Edwards published T. affinis and its companion, T. viri- 

 dis in 1862, from material sent him by Mr. C. Drexler and Dr. 



