A " POSER," STAINTON. 195 



hinder margin is a pale waved streak, and the margin itself is spotted 

 with black, with a pale griseoas line at the base of the cilia ; the 

 anterior stigma is dusky towards the costa, and bright tiavescent 

 towards the inner margin of the wing, forming a lunule of the latter 

 colour ; the posterior stigma is margined anteriorly with black and 

 flavescent, and posteriorly with black ; the hody is pale fuscous, and 

 the posterior wings of a creamy white, with the nervures rather 

 dusky." 



Stephens' figure, by C. M. Curtis, fig. 3 (not 2, see corrigenda), 

 pit. 20, is very stifi", and extraordinarily asymmetrical in markings on 

 the forewings and in the venation of the hindwings, nor does it at 

 all agree with the description, pp. 113-114. There is nothing 

 " yellowish," nor " flavescent," nor " ochraceous brown," nor " bright 

 flavescent " on the forewings, nor are the hindwings " creamy white." 

 The figure is suffused over a considerable area with greenish-grey, 

 and much of the remainder is suffused with reddish-brown (not 

 ochj'aceous), while the hindwings are coloured variously evidently to 

 pourtray a pearly appearance. With difficulty one can trace, or 

 partially trace, some of the markings mentioned in the description, 

 but the two sides are absolutely at variance, even when the characters 

 are present, as with the stigmata. 



Equally is the description of Stephens at variance with the insect 

 we now call linii;iera. Perhaps the most prominent specific characters 

 in the markings of our lioiii/era are the soft silky-grey colour-texture 

 of the forewings, the always present staring light-coloured orbicular 

 stigma, and the ever present jet black claviform stigma beneath the 

 orbicular. These characters are neither mentioned in the description 

 nor included in the figure, but they are described in terms which are 

 absolutely at variance with those conspicuous points of Innviera as we 

 know it. Exception must be taken also to the shape of the wings. 

 In the figure the apex is much too sharp, the outer margin is an 

 impossible one, and in the hindwings the margin gives quite the 

 opposite impression to that our limigeia gives. In this the darkened 

 vem-colour extends into the ciha, and the marginal somewhat dark 

 line appears thicker or wider between the veins at the base of the 

 cilia, and gives a curious scalloped appearance, exactly the reverse of 

 what is drawn in the figure. This is only seen in the males, as the 

 dark shading of the hindwings in the female gradually intensifies 

 towards the hind margin, and obscures the emphasis of the marginal 

 line at the base of the cilia. There is one character of our Innifiera 

 which is shewn in the markings of the figure, and that is the more or 

 less conspicuous, extremely bent, double transverse line on the basal 

 half of the wing inside the stigmatic area. This is given in the 

 figure on one side, but shown as a narrow deep black band of nearly 

 uniform width. In the insect the two lines are always separate, and 

 the space between is variable in width. The lines on the other half 

 of the figure are not at all comparable with those referred to above. 



In 1829 Freyer in his BcitriKjf znr Geschiclde eiiropiiischer Sclimet- 

 terUniji', vol. ii., p. 44, and pit. G2 (2 figs.), gives an account as far 

 as is known of the A<irotis tru.r, Hiib., and gives two figures which are 

 very different from Hiibner's figs, 723, 724, in both shape and colour. 

 The hindwings are pure white in Freyer's figures, the bodies are 

 slender for Agrotids as a rule, the general figure is that of an insect 



