222 THE EXTOMoLocilSl's KEC'Ollt). 



clu'onological summary, so far as we can at present go, works out as 

 follows : — 



1787. Nortiw orhonn. Fb., Maiit., ii.. 150 [ucc Hfn.!. 

 1787-88. PJtalaena Noctua suhacqiia, Esp., Schtuctt., iii., ll'.t, tab. lOt "iter 

 Schiff.] . 

 ? 1789. ! Phalaenn Noctua interpodta, Hb., lUr., i., pai's 4, " Verbess." 

 [potius ad oibonaiu, Hfn.] . 



1789. Phdlaena Noctua pronuha minor, Vill., Eitt., ii., 279 [non binom.]. 



1790. Phalaena Noctua mrlanozonios, Gmel., [.inn. Sijsl. Nat., i., 2544. 

 rir. 1800. ? Noctua covscqua, Hb., Saviml., iii., fig. 105 [n. nom., =iutcrj>osito]. 

 oi>tclHl&. Noctua conie-i, Hb., Saniiiil., iii., Hg. 521. 



181(3-25. Tripliaciia ciunes, Ochs., Sclnnett. Kur., iv., 69; Tr., i/u(/., v., pars 1, 

 254. 



For the varietal classification, Mr. Tutt's scheme (lliit. Xuct,, ii., 

 p. 96), already so fre(]uently alluded to, of course stands as the basis. 

 I would only suggest the following modifications : — 



3. — Ab. cmm'i/iia, Hb., should be called intcrimaitd, Hb. — Hiibner's 

 prior name for the self-same specimen ; but its position here should 

 be queried, as I have already shown. I would suggest, too, that the 

 figure is jiiojilc-grey or rinlet-gvey ; certainly not black-grey. 



5a. — Ab. rata, Tutt. Restrict by adding " hindwings not 

 infuscated." 



51). — Should be numbered " 6," as it has certainly nothing to do 

 with the " red" series. The name should be ab. cniies, Hb., and it 

 would be well to add " variegated with darker," and to sink jiroset/Ha, 

 Tr., as a darker and still more variegated sub-aberration {ride Hb., 

 fig. 521). 



Instead of "6. — .... var. r/M-f/.s//, Newm.," read: 7. — 

 Ab. darl.i, n. ab. Deep red, more or less sprinkled with black, both 

 on fore- and hindwings = f//rr/.s//, Clark, Tutt, nee Newm. Types, 

 Mr. Clark's specimens figured h'nt'))»., xxii., pi. vi., figs. CI, C2. 



!S. — Dark dull brown, hardly tinged with reddish excepting narrowly 

 on the costa = ab. nntisil, Newm. (see fig. typ.. Curt. 'diS) — riif(>- 

 iti'ircscrns, Tutt. 



Ab. )ii;i resents, Tutt (/"c. lit., pp. 96, 98), and ab. n'nira, Tutt {Inc. 

 rit., p. 98), will now stand as 9 and da. 



The " type " form of the species, if this be nuiano-^onias, (imel., is 

 probably intermediate Ijetween jjallida, Tutt, and oe/irea, Tutt, but, as 

 I have said, I am unable to sharply differentiate these pale and roughly 

 typical forms. 



Lepidoptera of the Italian Riviera — Alassio, Albenga, Laigueglia. 



]Jv J. W. TUTT, F.E.S. 

 At Alassio, April 12th broke dull and cloudy, and a walk at the 

 back of the town exhibited, besides the common Pierids, only Antho- 

 caris belia, Ijeiteupliasia sinai>is, Kuvhlu? cardanriiies, Vararije eijeria, l\ 

 iiH'iiaera, Uroithis dia, ( 'ooioiijpiijJia luciHjiItibis and L'l/auiris ari/iolus, 

 in the fitful gleams of sunshine with which we were favoured. Nor 

 did the weather improve, and henceforth storm, dulness, and inter- 

 mittent sunshine were the order of the day. It may be worth noting 

 that this break in the weather was contemporaneous with the break of 

 the spell of fine weather that had until then favoured the British 

 Islands, and bad weather a])pears to have been at this time pretty 

 general over the whole of Western Europe. 



