The Scottish Naturalist. ijj 



The upper wings are strongly suffused with yellow ; the lower 

 wings are white, with a black median spot and rather broad black 

 marginal band. Time of flight is June. 



31. Anaitis paludata(?) var. imbutataHb. (Carsiaimbutata 

 Hb.) Stgr. and Wk. Lap.; Mosch. Labr.; Sch. Fen.; Frey Alp.; 

 H. Here. Mont.; Wk. Norv. Mont. 



Unfortunately, I have not seen the specimens. Since Mr. 

 Jenner Weir does not specially mention this species, I assume that 

 the specimens are identical with the Scottish ones, and therefore 

 they belong to the form with strong pencillings much mixed with 

 red, since this form also occurs on the Harz. Information as to 

 the time of flight is wanting to me ; probably it is the end of July 

 and beginning of August. 



* 32. Lygris testata L. var. (Cidaria testata L.) Sch. Fen.; 

 Stdfs. Sil. Mont. ; H. Here. Mont. 



The specimens that I saw are essentially different from those of 

 our Lowlands. The beautiful agate-red of the upper wings is 

 modified into a reddish brown, and the bluish dash of colour 

 appears deeper ; the whole colouring is therefore duller. I have 

 reared a quite similar example from the Upper Harz; and Mr. 

 Fuess, one of our collectors, tells me that he has taken this species, 

 with the same dull dark colours, in the Island of Borkum also. 

 Dr. Staudinger writes me explicitly that some specimens caught at 

 Bodo, on the Saltenfiord, do not differ from those of Germany. 

 Time of flight is 10th September. 



* 33. Cidaria immanata Hw. and abb. marmorata Hw. 

 Frey Alp.; Stdfs. Sil. Mont.; Stgr. and Wk. Cat. Isl. 



I saw sixteen specimens from the mainland of Shetland, and 

 four from Unst ; the former varied considerably from one another ; 

 but in all the sixteen the markings were very distinct; while in the 

 specimens from Unst the colours appeared more uniform and the 

 markings rather faded. 



In most examples a red-yellow ground-colour prevails on the 

 upper wings ; the basal and middle areas are black, more or less 

 broken up into bands, and both are marked off on the side next 

 the root of the wing by distinct white zig-zag lines. From Dr. 

 Staudinger I obtained Icelandic specimens, which have more of a 

 whitish ground colour, while the basal and middle areas are 

 uniformly black. 



There has been much controversy as to the relation of C. 



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