it occurred near Dover at the end of June (" Ind. Ent.," figs. 724, 

 718-719). 



In the meantime Treitschke, 1827, had referred to the species as 

 imunitata, but among his references further complicated the matter 

 by mentioning Hiibner's figure 105, contii^uaria, a doubtful figure 

 of that species, but not unlike some pale forms of nian^ineptnictata. 

 Duponchel, 1830, calls it iinnuitaria, but his figure is not a good one, 

 although his references sufficiently indicate the species he intended 

 to portray ("Hist. Nat. Lep.," viii., p. 61, pi. 173, f. 8). Freyer, 

 1833-6, gives several figures under the name immutata, none of 

 which are recognisable, but his text indicates the species they are 

 intended to represent (" Neu. Beit.," i., p. 107, pi. 64, figs. 4 and 5, 

 ii., p. 186, pi. 180, f. 1). Her rich -Schafl;'er, 1847, gives quite a good 

 figure, to which be applies the name iiinimtaria (" Schm. Eur.," 

 pi. 17, f. 101). 



Guenee, 1857, seems to have unearthed Roesel's figure (" Ins. 

 Bel.," vol. i., class iii., pi. xi., f. 3, 1746)) and applied to it the 

 name of pronnttata. Roesel's is a fairly good figure, and is, I 

 believe, the earliest one known of this species. Henry Doubleday, 

 in the "Zoologist's Synonymic List," 1859, adopted Guenee's name, 

 and /iroiiiiitata became the generally recognised name for the species 

 by British entomologists of that period. Snellen, 1867, also uses 

 this name in his " De Vlinders van Nederland." 



Stainton, 1859, still further complicated matters by the use in 

 the " Manual " of Haworth's name incanata for this species and 

 ))iar(/ine})imctata for some other, apparently straniinata, Tr., and it 

 was not until the publication of South's " Entomologist " list in 

 1884, that we in Britain adopted vi an/in e punctata, Goze, as the 

 correct name for this insect. But even so, Barrett, 1902, was not 

 content to let matters rest, and in " The Lepidoptera of the British 

 Islands " reverted to Guenee's name, profimtata, although Meyrick 

 in his " Handbook," published some years earlier, had apparently 

 straightened out the matter. 



Joannis, 1891, described under the name of pastoraria what 

 appears to be a pale form of this species from Asia Minor (" Bull. 

 Soc. Ent. Fr.," 1891, p. 80). 



The synonymy of the species therefore appears to be : — 



Marffinepunctata, Goze, Bork., South, Meyrick (non Steph, non 

 Wood, non Sta.). 



Iitnniitata, Tr., Freyer (non L.). 



Iwmvtaria, Hub., H.-S., Dup. 



Incanata, Haw., Step. " Cat.," Wood, Sta. (non L.). 



Prowntata, Guenee (Roesel), Dbl., Snell., Barrett. 



Pastoiaria, Joannis. 



Contiguaria, Hiib. ?, Wood. 



The geographical distribution of the species appears to extend 

 throughout central and southern Europe, Asia Minor and eastward 

 through Turkestan and Mongolia to the borders of China, and to 



