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with white ; the spots on the underside suiall, with white edging. Occurs 

 inDurham with fairly typical specimens. P. var. artaxerxes*, Fah. — 

 A local race almost entirely confined to ScotUxnd, the only English 

 county from wliich it is recorded being Durham, where it occurs as a 

 rare aberration with saliiiari.'<. It is blacker in ground colour, has a 

 distinct white central spot on tbe upper side of the forewings, and the 

 spots on the underside are white. It nuiy be noted that the alpine 

 foi'm has the same intensely black ground colour, but never appears 

 to develop the white spots on the up[)ei-side characteristic of this 

 variety, nor ai-e the spots on the undei-side modified as in this.j 

 P. AB. QUAijRiPUNCTA, TuTT. — An extreme form of var. arta.irr.res in 

 which there is a white spot in the centre of the hindwings, as well as 

 in the centre of the forewings. It is very rare, and has only been 

 recorded singly from a few Scottish localities. 



MeLIT.EA AtJRINIA VAR. PR.ECLARA, KaNK (? VAR. HIBERNICA, pHi- 



chael). — Characterised by a straw-coloured transverse band and very 

 vivid fulvous blotches ; the ground colour darker than in the type. 

 Chiefly confined to Ireland. M. var. scotica, Tutt. — The ground 

 colour very dark ; the fulvous and straw-coloured areas much con- 

 stricted ; the fulvous colour giving place somewhat to ochreous, and 

 the straw-colour darker than in var. pnu'dara. Confined to Scotland. 

 M. AB. brunnea, Tutt. — An extreme tawny form (no fulvous-red or 

 straw-colour) ; the general tint resembling that of M. ciu.ria ; occurs 

 very rarely with the type. 



Epinepheee tithonus AB. ALBiDus, Ckll. — A white form. E. ab. 

 PALLESCENS, Ckll. — Pale buff ground colour. 



Melampias EPiPHRON AB. 5INEMON, Haw. — The band of the forewings 

 broken up into four saftron rings ; on the hindwings only two rings. 

 [Given by Staudinger as being confined to Britain. One suspects, 

 however, that it will be found to be widely distributed on the 

 continent.] 



ARCTIIDES. — Lithosia complana vau. sericea, Greoson. — A dark 

 form occurring sparingly and very locally on certain mosses in Lanca- 

 shire. Intermediate forms with an increased amount of dark lead- 

 colour are occasionally taken in other localities with the typical form. 

 [Considered by some lepidopterists to be a distinct species.] 



Callioenia iMiMATA AB. LUTESCENs, Ckee. — Yellow instead of rosy 

 pink. 



Arctia CAiA AB. LUTESCENS. Ckll. — With yellow instead of red 

 hindwings. [Almost sure to have been recorded on the Continent,] 



NOLIDES. — NoLA cucullatella var, fuliginalis, Stephs. — This 

 is a melanic form, the ground colour of the wings being quite sooty- 

 black, restricted almost entirely to the London district, where the 

 moth is common resting on fences. Evidently the colour is a response 

 to environment, and the form is becoming commoner as the London 

 suburbs become more smoky. 



Nola strigula ab. monachalis, Haw. — Melanic or suffused form. 

 NOCTUIDES. — Craniophora lkjustri ab. nigra, Tutt. — The whole 

 of the anterior wings uniformly black ; all the normal pale markings 

 absent. Very rare, Doncaster. 



Apatela aceris var. intermedia, Tutt. — This is the ordinary 



* Since this has been in type we have observed (in one of the earlier vols, of 

 the Entom., we believe) a record of this form as or-currine' in the Crimea. 



