228 THE entomologist's record. 



and Desvignes give other localities, in some of which, e.r/., Whittlebury 

 Forest, the species is (or was) very abundant. Studd gives Dawlish 

 Warren, Tutt notes Chattenden, &c. 



The great number of imagines that I have captured during the 

 last five years, has given me a very large amount of material. Added 

 to this I have examined many other of our leading collections — my 

 thanks are especially due to Mr. Sydney Webb, Dr. Mason, and various 

 others who have kindly placed their valuable collections at my disposal 

 for examination and research, and also for the notes and observations 

 with which they have helped me, in many instances enabling me to 

 come to a definite conclusion in critical cases. As I consider my own 

 collection to be fairly representative, I have named the new aberrations 

 which I possess (and am also publishing figures of the same with this 

 account of the species), and I trust the descriptions and figures will 

 enable the lepidopterists of to-day to arrange their series of this species 

 under the special names which have been bestowed upon the various 

 forms. In order to make the list as complete as possible, it has been 

 deemed advisable to add the descriptions of the forms named by other 

 authors. This will at least make this article a good basis on which 

 jO found even a more detailed grouping of the aberrations should some 

 one give the species continued study and attention, 



I have, in the following list, adopted as a basis for grouping, the 

 two characters of colour and markings, and, although, Avhen one 

 becomes accustomed to the general character of the markings, the 

 aberrations are not difficult to group, yet, at first, the grouping is some- 

 what bewildering, and it is only when an intimate knowledge of the 

 various forms has been obtained and the details mastered that success 

 is at all assured. To my short descriptions of new forms, I have 

 appended notes setting forth the difterences between these and the 

 allied forms in their respective groups, which should make reference to 

 any of the aberrations described, a comparatively easy matter. 

 Lepidopterists have usually called the tuft of raised scales in the centre 

 of the forewings the " button," whilst the streak along the inner 

 margin is known as the " vitta," these terms I have retained in my 

 descriptions. 



Curtis, in 1824, diagnoses {Brit. Knt., expl. pi. xvi) the genus 

 Peronea, and describes several forms, and in the 2nd edition, 1862, 

 gives the following general notes thereon : " The genus Peronea 

 (derived from the Greek signifying a " button ") is here divided into 

 sections, those with a large elevated tuft of scales in the centre of the 

 upper wings being the typical species. I shall introduce Hiibner's 

 sectional names from his fanciful arrangement, but I may here state 

 that, as it is a mere catalogue divided into groups, the markings of the 

 wings being briefly added, without any attempt at scientific definitions, 

 I shall never feel bound to adopt them. The Peroneae measure from 

 about nine to ten lines when the wings are expanded, most of them 

 conceal themselves in the lichens that cover the old whitethorns, &c., 

 and they have nearly all been taken at Cooml), Birch and Darenth 

 woods in Kent, and in the neighbourhood of Brockenhurst in the New 

 Forest." He divides them into the following sections in the second 

 edition of Brithh Entotiiolotjij (ten new forms not noticed in the 

 Jllt(ntrati<m>i of Stephens, being described in the second edition) : 



