"a POSKK," STAINTON, 219 



Inn'Kjcra. Only two examples have the orbicular staring, but in these 

 it is misshapen, the upper part being clouded over and indistinct in 

 outline. 



(2) Not a single specimen has a tone in any way approaching that 

 of Inninera, so much so that anyone familiar with either species and 

 unfamiliar with the other, when meeting with it for the first time 

 would never confuse the two. One or two specimens are somewhat 

 lighter at the base on the inner margin. 



i'S) A consideraljle proportion have a ruddy or ferruginous tinge 

 which is never seen in the large number of Innit/na which I have 

 examined. Those that are grey are of an ochre colour rather than a 

 soft grey as in liinii/cia. 



(4) In shape of wing all but two are uniformly bold, much larger 

 than hiniijera both in length and width, the costa and inner margin 

 are not so nearly parallel, there is difference in the apex of the wing. 



(5) The specimens of French origin are noticeable as having the 

 hind wings more pearly in appearance than have the rest. 



As suggested above, one would say that in the Museum series of 

 tni.v there are at least two species mixed, and it may be that most of 

 the French examples will also be separated as distinct. 



I failed to find any lunii/era in the Ainotidac taken from Stephens' 

 collection, but there is a v-ery fine, long series in the P)anks' collection, 

 all of which have the salient characters of the species. 



In the Bethnal Green Branch of the South Kensington Museum 

 are deposited the collections of Henry Doubleday. '■ These consist of 

 extensive series of our British Lepidoptera and more or less short 

 series of the Macro-lepidoptera of the continent of Europe. In the 

 former is a long series of British lunigera in very good condition and 

 quite in accord with every other series I have seen, not one specimen 

 of aberrance outside the usual narrow limit of the species, in marking 

 or in size. In the continental series are the following three sets : — ■ 



1. Five specimens under tnix, with no localities, nor any sign of 

 origin. They are large and Ijold insects. 



(1) A c? , with no dark suffusion inside hind margin of hindwing. 



(2) A (^ , in which the reniform is much obscured in shape by an 

 extensive and irregular clouding all around it, and having the hind- 

 wing with clouded suffusion in the submarginal area, but not 

 emphasised quite so much as in the case of the $ s. 



(8) A (^ , the nearest approach to Uiniiiera, in emphasis of the three 

 stigmata, that I have met with. However, the delicacy of surface 

 found in Inninera is quite wanting in this specimen, and above all, the 

 suffusion in the hindwing, leaves a considerable, quite light area inside 

 the hind-margin, which is suggested in no specimen of either trux or 

 luni(iin<( that I have examined. The size and shape, as well as the 

 collective impression suggested by the markings, preclude one from 

 confusing the specimen with l.iini;icra. If not an aberrant form of 

 trit.f it may possibly be distinct. 



(4) A 5 , with a suspicion of olive in its tint, possibly faded ; it has 

 the reniform fairly ol)vious, rest of marking almost obsolete. 



(5) A ? , with the markings all suppressed, the uniform grey being 

 hard and ochrous. 



* Since writing this, these collections have been removed to S. Kensington. 



