14 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



6. P. rapcc var. yreka, Reak., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1866, p. 



32 { = resed(E, Bav., 1869). 



7. P. rapce \-ax. inauni, Mayer., Stettin Entomologische Zcititng, 1851, 



p. 151 (pale yellow). 



8. P. rapce var tiovanglice, Scud., Canadian. Efitoni., 1872, p. 79 (dull 



sulphur yellow). 

 (These are quite a number of vars., considering that P. rapce is an 

 introduced species). 



9. Vanessa aniiopa, var. with the border less distinct than type [ = 



var. obsaa-a\ near Rochester, in New York State. See Robert 

 Bunker, Canad. Entoni., 1876, p. 240. 



10. V. antiopa var. lintnerii, Fitch, 1856, pale border very wide, blue 



spots absent. This is the same as the European var. Iiygieea, 

 Hdrch., but I do not know which has priority. According to 

 Dr. Lang {R/iop. Eur.) var. /lygieea, has been taken in 

 Britain. 



11. Pyrameis Atalanta x carye (hybrid between Ataianta, L. and 



carye, Hiibn.), Hy. Edwards, Proc. Cal. Ac. N. Sci., 1876. 



12. P. cardui var. ate, Strecker., Syn. Catal. of Macro Lep., 1878, 



P- 137- 



13. Heliothis arnugera var. umbrosiis, Grote. (Proc, Ent. Soc. Phil., 



1862.) Primaries yellowish-grey, head and thorax yellowish- 

 grey. This was described as H. itnibrosiis by A. R. Grote from a 

 (^, taken on Long Island, but he afterwards admitted its identity 

 with H. armigera. It seems to be the greyish form of the 

 species, well figured in 4th Rept. U.S. Entom. Commission 

 (1885), pi. 3, fig. 8 (the type being fig. 7 on the same plate). 

 Grote's original specimen lacked the discal mark on posterior 

 wings. 



14. Plusia brassiccB, Riley (2nd Rept. Ins. Missouri, pp. 1 11- 11 2, fig. 



81) appears to be a sub-species of P. ni of Europe, and the 



Plusia ni figured in Efitom. Annual^ 1870 (a British one) 



appears to be of the form brassicce. Riley says : — " Staudinger 



would probably characterise brassicce. as a ' species Darwiniana '; " 



brassicce differs from the true ni in the silver spot and in " the 



darker and more irrorate colouring, and the interrupted and 



wavy terminal line of brassicce, against the paler, smoother and 



more metallic colouring and the perfectly straight and unbroken 



terminal line of ?ii." P. brassiaz is destructive to cabbages in 



the Southern U.S. 



These are all the American vars. of British species I can lay my 



hands on just now, but I shall doubtless meet with others in the course 



of my work, and will duly inform you of them. — T. D. A. Cockerell, 



West Cliff, Custer Co., Colorado, U.S.A. 



EuPiTHECiA SATYRATA vars. CALLUNARiA and cuRZONi. — In Ento- 

 mologist, vols. xvii. and xviii. there was considerable discussion as to 

 curzoni being a variety of nanata or a distinct species. Having some 

 of the most strongly marked curzoni that were taken, I certainly believed 

 that they formed a local race oi E. nanata, while Herr A. Hoffmann, 

 Dr. Staudinger, and others were of the same opinion. Mr. Gregson, 

 however, considered the form distinct, but allied to E. satyrata, while 

 Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson told us plainly that it was a northern form of 



