248 THE entomologist's record. 



characters of lnni<iera. No one could have any hesitation in separating 

 the two if a mixed assortment were put before them. 



The following notes are made on the individual specimens : — 

 1 & 2, Are labelled ab. olivina. They are from the Leech coll. locality 

 France. Both have the claviform well marked and deep black, but in 

 olive tone are not comparable with the figures in the two copies of 

 Hiibner's Samin. eiir. Sc/nn., with which I compared them. Possibly 

 Hiibner's figures may have faded but this would be very unlikely. 



3. Islabellod ab. terranea, locality France, from the Leech collection. 

 I can see no diirerence between this specimen and many others in the 

 series. 



4. Leech collection, from France. 



5. Zeller collection, no locality. 



6. 7, 8. Leech collection, from Central France. 



9. Zeller collection, no locality. , 



10, 11. German in origin. 



12,13, 14. Leech collection, locality France. One specimen has 

 the claviform, well developed deep black, another has a part of the 

 orbicular strongly white, the rest of the stigmata are inconspicuously 

 traceable. 



15. Zeller collection, no locality. 



16. Labelled Europe. These two are possibly not trux at all, but 

 a distinct species, from their size, shape, markings, etc. 



17. Leech collection, from Staudinger collection. 



18. 19. Frey and Zeller collection respectively, no localities. 



20. Leech collection, no locality. 



21. 23. Frey collection, no locality. 



22. Not labelled. 



24. Zeller collection, no locality. 



25. Leech collection, from Gerhard collection, no locality. 

 2(5, 27, 30. Frey collection, no locality. 



28, 29. From Switzerland, " Wallis," i.e., Valais. 



31. Leech collection, from Staudinger, locality Switzerland. 



32. Zellei- collection, no locality'. 



38, 34. From the island of Capri, Italy. 



35, 36. From Tenerifte, one specimen has the strongly emphasised 

 claviform. 



It may be assumed that probably the Frey specimens are Swiss in 

 origin and that Zeller's are German. 



As a whole the 36 specimens are very uniform in size, except the 

 two noted above, numbers 15 and 16, which are much smaller, 

 have differently shaped wings and do not conform in marking and 

 tone with the rest of the series. There is no single insect which one 

 •would pick out from these 36 specimens and place, even with the 

 slightest doubt, among a series of British luniriera. 



Taking the characters of the markings in detail, it is noted that — 



(1) The stigmata are generally indefinitely developed in all the 

 specimens. Rarely is there one of the three stigmata conspicuous, and 

 not in a single specimen do we find all three developed as is invariably 

 the case with lunii/era. In many cases thereniform is quite obsolescent 

 and even untraceable. 



Only six specimens have the claviform well developed and in these 

 the rest of the characters are in no way comparable with those of 



