110 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



CoLocABiA (De.mas) coryli ab, avellan^. — Uniform grey, the 

 nut-brown in the basal half entirely wanting. One <? . Esthonia. 



Craniophora (Acronicta) ligustri ab. troni. — Ground-colour, 

 not brown, but rohite, with the normal black markings ; only the 

 parts of the ground-colour which in the type are of the most intense 

 brown are here marked with light grey. One example, Reval, 

 Esthonia. Engramelle (pi. ccxxv., fig. 320) is also cited, apparently 

 at second-hand, through Treitschke's reference ; probably fig. 320 /is 

 intended. 



Plusia iNTERROGATioxis AB. FLAMMiFERA.— The sllver markings 

 confluent. Not infrequent. 



Plusia chrysitis ab. aurea. — Clear golden, like auHfera, Hb., not 

 greenish-brotize. Not infrequent. [Is not this at least as likely to 

 be the Linnean type? Neither of the colour terms which Linn6 

 uses — " orichalceis," •' aurea" — give any hint of the greenish hue. — 

 L.B.P.j 



LoMASPiLis AiARGiNATA AB. MEDioFAsciATA. — Clear white, with 

 black-grey fringes, but without any trace of a black-grey marginal 

 band on either wing ; the three dark blotches in central area united 

 to form a central band (narrow, except on costa). Figured at pi. vi., 

 fig. 1. Taken at Lechts. 



LOMASPILIS MARGINATA AB. STAPHYLEATA [cX ScOp., Ellt. Cam.'] . 



The markings appear much as in the preceding, but the ground- 

 colour is not white, but tinged with yellow-grey, as if smoked ; the 

 markings indistinct. Figured at pi. vi., fig. 2. Also from Lechts. 

 [Huene's attempt to " rescue from oblivion " the name staphyleata of 

 Scopoli is not legitimate unless this aberration was Scopoli's form, 

 which I more than doubt. — L.B.P.] 



Operophtheba (Cheimatobu) brumata AB. HYEMATA. — Basal patch 

 and central area dark, the lines being confluent so as to form dark 

 bands. The figure (pi. vi., fig. 3) shows an extreme development in 

 which these bands are so broadened as to cover practically the entire 

 inner portion of wing. [Is the name tenable ? I suspect Huene 

 culls it from Hufnagel or Borkhausen, though he omits to say so. — 

 L.B.P.] 



BoAKMiA ciNCTARiA AI5. pAscuARiA [ex Esp.] . — Central area white. 

 Compare Esp., v., pi. xliii., fig. 3. Found in Esthonia with the type. 

 [Unless this is Brahm's form, the namfe pascuari-a cannot stand. It 

 is not even Esper's tijpe of his pascuaria.] 



Chleuastes (Bupalus) piniaria ab. anomalarius. — The white 

 ground-colour (which is characteristic of the Esthonian and 

 Linnean type), irrorated with a dark dusting, and the dark 

 margins somewhat paler than normal. PI. vi., fig. 5, shows that 

 this results in a form in which the difi'erent parts of the wing are not 

 very far from concolorous. <J s Esthonia. [Is this = ab. nir/ricanus, 

 Backh., or is it less extreme ? — L.B.P.] 



CiDARiA BicoLORATA AB. GUTTATA (pi. vi., fig. 7). — Central costal 

 blotch reduced to a mere spot around the discoidal. Esthonia, one 

 example. 



XaNTHORHOE (CiDABIa) FLUCTUATA AB. SEMIFASCIATA (pi. VI., fig. 8). 



This aberration = oosioi'af a, lia,w. = rimata, ^ow. = sempionaria, Ratz. 

 When will entomologists have supplied it with sufiScient names ? — 

 L.B.P.— L. B. Prout, F.E.S.. The Elms, 246, Richmond Road, 

 Dalston, N.E. 



