1905.] g9 



In Abeille de Perrin's Monograph, M. vulneratus is treated as a 

 variety of M. stranf/ulatus, Ab. ; but later on, on the discovery of the 

 S, he separated it as a distinct species (Bull. Acad. Marseille, 1900, 

 Sep. p. 18). 



I am indebted to M. Bedel for these particulars, M. Perrin's last 

 paper not having been seen by me. It is not unlikely that Mulsant 

 confused two species under M. spinosus. 



Mr. J. J. Walker, it may be added, has also found a specimen of 

 M vulneratus in his collection. It was taken at Sheerness, probably 

 in 1804. 



Horsell, Woking : 



February Wth, 1905. 



ECTROPIS {TEPHROSIA) CONSONARIA, Hb., ab. NIGRA, not. ab. 

 BY EUSTACE E. BANKES, M.A., F.E.S. 



Antenna, head, thorax with patagia, abdomen and legs (which are pale-ringed 

 at the joints), all deep fuscous above. Fore-wings of the $ dull fuscous-black, of 

 the ? dull black, with the extreme base white, except on the costa. An elongate 

 white patch, just inside the second line and rather above the middle of the wing, is 

 always present and well pronounced in the ? , and occasionally so, though usually 

 nearly or quite obsolete, in the S ■ The second line is generally more or less 

 noticeable, owing partly to its being sometimes a shade blacker than the ground- 

 colour, but chiefly to the presence of a narrow dirty whitish line, sometimes obsolete 

 towards the costa, bordering it posteriorly. There is a rather broad subdentate 

 white subterminal line, often obsolete near the costa, and a narrow black discal mark 

 is discernible above the inner edge of the white patch. Rind-wings a little paler 

 than the fore-wings, with the extreme base white, a narrow black discal mark, a 

 black postmedian line bordered externally by a narrow dirty whitish line, and a 

 more or less well-defined white or whitish undulate subterminal line. Cilia of all 

 the wings pale brown, with a black central transverse line, and the basal half much 

 speckled with black. Under-side of all the wings hoary-drab, with a dark discal 

 mark, a faint postmedian and a more conspicuous subterminal whitish line, and a 

 very narrow blackish terminal line : cilia as above, but with the basal half not 

 black speckled. 



This extreme melanic form, which appears to be undescribed, has, 

 I believe, only been found in Kent, where it has been sparingly taken 

 by Mr. Edward Goodwin, of Wateringbury, who has also reared it 

 from ova obtained from captured females. I am much indebted to 

 Mr. Goodwin for his kindness in placing at my service, for the pur- 

 poses of this notice, the finest bred examples of this grand aberration 

 that his cabinet contains, and in enriching my collection with speci- 

 mens of it. The great majority of black and blackish Lepidoptera 



