tation in adopting M. Diiponchel's generic title given in the 

 8th vol. of Godart's Lepidoptera. 



There are only two species of Venilia. 



1. macularia Linn. — Don. v. 7. pi. 251. J". 3. 



Orange with large irregular brown patches on the wings, 

 with smaller ones at the base and abdominal marmn : these 

 spots are darkest above in the inferior wings and beneath in 

 the superior wings. 



Mr. Newman once showed me a remarkable variety taken 

 atWalthamstow in May, with the wings almost entirely brown, 

 similar to Godart's figure 6, pi. 187. 



The Caterpillar feeds principally upon Lamium puripureum 

 and alburn^ ])1. 70 and 132 ; the moth is met with in most woods 

 in England : Mr. Dale has observed it in plenty in the Isle of 

 Portland and near Abbey Milton, also at Enborne Copse and 

 Bagley Wood from the 7th of May to the 17th of June. 



2. quadrimaculata Ha*w. — Curt. Brit. Ent. pi. 647. S ' 

 Ochreous yellow, indistinctly mottled with orange; antennae, 

 head, and thorax freckled with brown : anterior wings with 

 3 or 4) large purplish-brown spots on the costa, which is 

 freckled with the same colour at the base ; these spots are 

 faint on the underside. 



This rare insect used to be taken occasionally in a wood at 

 Colney Hatch in April and the beginning of Maj"^, but it has not 

 been seen I believe for several years, and it appears to be un- 

 known upon the Continent. It may possibly be only a variety 

 of V. macularia^ but if such be the case it is a remarkable in- 

 stance of stability in a variety, as many specimens have been 

 taken, all agreeing in the essential characters. 



Pyrola minor^ Less Winter-green, was communicated by 

 T. Howson, Esq., who gathered specimens at Clapdale Wood 

 in Yorkshire, and I am indebted to the same gentleman for 

 the plants represented in the two following plates. 



