336 THE entomologist's record. 



convolruli were taken here last Thursday and Friday, October 3rd and 

 4th. Unfortunately two of them were nearly dead when brought 

 tome, and were in very worn condition. Of the other two, one, a dark 

 ^ , was taken from an electric street lamp on October 4th, and the 

 other, a ? , I captured myself, on the evening of the same day, flying 

 at flowers of Nicotiana affinis. — E. Miller, The Croft, Rainsford 

 Road, Chelmsford. October 1th, 1901. 



VARIATION. 



Some new Geometrid varieties and aberrations. — In working 

 through the new Catalo;/ of Staudinger and Rebel, together with our 

 British literature on the GeometrideH, I have come to the conclusion 

 that the following more or less well-known varieties and aberrations 

 have never yet been named. 



LobopJiora earjiinata, ab. (et var. '>) fasciata, n. ab. — The central 

 area of forewings is strongly marked with two narrow, approximate, 

 transverse bands. These forms are frequent at Rannoch, and are well 

 represented in all our large or moderate-sized British collections. 



Ochyria (Larentia) mnnitata var. hetldandica, n. var. — Ground colour 

 of forewings strongly ochreous. This fine race seems to entirely 

 supplant the type in the Shetlands. The specimens are generally, so 

 far as my observation extends, of rather large size and broad band, but 

 I would not indicate these characters as absolute essentials of the 

 variety. 



Hl/driomena {Larentia) autiiunialis ab. infitscata, n. ab. — Amongst 

 various pretty aberrations occurring with the type of this species (known 

 to most British lepidopterists as H. hiqduviata) in the Isle of Arran, 

 this is the most extreme, and the easiest of definition. At first glance 

 the forewings appear to be of an almost uniform fuscous, but two 

 narrow bands bounding the broad central area, usually also the 

 middle part of the central area and some spots before the fringes, are 

 really somewhat paler. It is curious that the pale bands seem to 

 occupy the position of the (often quite dark) bluish or grey bands of 

 the type. 



Eupithecia (Tephroclystm) renosata var. (?ab.) orcadensis, n. var. — 

 Ground colour of a sandy tint which is quite distinct both from the 

 pale colour of the type and the brown-grey of var. nubilata, Bhtsch. 

 (from the Shetlands). The black markings — especially the longitu- 

 dinal — tend, as also in var. nubilata, to be less sharply expressed than 

 in the type. Both my Orkney specimens belong to this new var., and 

 Mr. F. J. Hanbury has others ; but I am unable to say positively 

 whether it is the sole form in the Orkneys. 



(xonudontis bidentata ab. ni(jra, n. ab. — This fine form has the 

 ground colour of a glossy black, with only the transverse lines slightly 

 paler. It occurs in company with so many others of our melanic 

 aberrations in some of the northern manufacturing districts — Man- 

 chester, &c. — Louis B. Prout, F.E.S., The Elms, 246, Richmond 

 Road, Dalston, N.E. 



Erkata. — Page 303, line 18, for " Cidaria " read " Neuronia." Page 303, line 

 14, for " Lepidoptera in the New Forest" read " Lepidoptera in the New Forest, 

 &c." By leaving out the "&c." this note re&ds &s ii Arfiyiniis adqipe, Agrotis 

 cincrea, Pachetra leucophaea and Neuronia reticulata were captured in the New 

 Forest. These species were not taken in the New Forest. — Ed. 



