78 [April. 



twenty-seven moths in all. The typical parent produced typical and 

 red offspring, the red parent typical and red offspring, and the yellow 

 parent typical and red offspring, but no yellow ones. The yellow 

 variety seems to be very rare. 



In the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine for 1896, vol. xxxii, p. 

 162, and the Entomologist's Record for the same year, vol. viii, pp. 

 133-135, Mr. J. W. Tutt having expressed some doubts as to the 

 claim of L.favicolor to rank as a good species, I wrote and asked him 

 if he would care to examine the series I had sent to Mr. Barrett, 

 together with others bred and captured since, and he replied that he 

 would like to do so, and so they were forwarded with the result an- 

 nounced in the Entomologist's Record for 1904, vol. xvi, pp. 252-254, 

 where, after saying that he was now quite convinced as to its right 

 to be considered a distinct species, he proceeded to describe and name 

 eight of the aberrations. A short time after I sent these examples 

 to Mr. Tutt I took other varieties of a second brood, which I likewise 

 sent to him as soon as they were fit to be removed from the setting 

 boards, but they were not received in time to be embodied in the 

 above paper, so I subsequently described them myself in the Ento- 

 mologist's Record for the current year, vol. xvii, p. 14. All the 

 examples above referred to were exhibited at a meeting of the Ento- 

 mological Society of London on November 2nd, 1904, and a description 

 of them is given in the Proceedings of the Society for that year, 

 p. Ixxiii. 



L.favicolor appears to be a very local species, and as far as my 

 experience goes seems to be restricted to the fringes of the salt 

 marshes that impinge on the coast. In this district the marshes are 

 rapidly disappearing, owing to the encroachment of the sea and. 

 destruction of the sea banks, and those where I first obtained it a 

 few years ago, which were such good collecting grounds for other 

 coast species, have since been converted into mud flats which are 

 covered by every tide, so I am afraid that this interesting species w'ill 

 soon cease to exist in this neighbourhood. 



Mr. Tutt, in the paper above quoted, has given some account of 

 its habits from my notes, so I have not much further to add, except 

 that it is pretty early on the wing, and flies soon after dusk, and that 

 it is particularly partial to the flowers of various kinds of grasses. It 

 is to be found from the middle of June until the end of July, and last 

 year, for the first time, I took several of a second brood in August 

 and September. It probably occurs all along the east coast in suitable 



