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out to me that the dark hindwings of the said figure may have a 

 further bearing on the determination ; in not a few aritmUneta the 

 hindwings are pale enough to show a fairly clear discal dot on the 

 upperside, which is not in Hiibner. I am afraid I cannot convince 

 Mr. Tutt, whose mind seems to have been made up from the daj-s 

 when he believed there was only one species, and that Schmidt's 

 difterentiations had no validity ; but for me, the synonymy will 

 be that of Staudinger's " Catalog," with edehteni, Tutt, added as a 

 synonym to ncurica, Hub. — Louis B. Prout, F.E.S. Ja)nia)i/, 1909. 



NoNAGRiA NEURiCA, Hb. = ARUNDiNETA, ScHMiDT. — As the readers 

 of the Eiit. Ilecord will no doubt be tired of hearing of Hiibner's fig. 

 383 of nearica, and as Mr. Prout does not deal with any of the points 

 I consider vital {E'nt. llec, xx., pp. 286 et seq.), except that he states 

 that Hiibner's figure " does show the white collar .... unfortu- 

 nately slightly misplaced," there is no need to deal seriously with the 

 subject further than to say — (1) We have already stated \antca, xx., 

 p. 290) that there is a suspicion that Treitschke had edehteni mixed 

 with his neurica. (2) We have already shown that the chain of 

 historic evidence and tradition running through Hiibner (1802 and 

 1818), Ochsenheimer (1816), Treitschke (1825), Duponchel (1840), 

 Boisduval (1840), Herrich-Schaifer (1845), Guenee (1852), and Stain- 

 ton (1857), agrees with our view, and that the historic chain was 

 broken by Schmidt in 1855, and Staudinger, 1869. (3) We must 

 kindly but firmly disagree with Mr. Prout that Hiibner's figure does 

 " show the white collar," even "unfortunately misplaced," and are 

 inclined to think that now, even Mr. Prout will agree with this, since 

 we have both together examined the figure in the copy of Hiibner, in 

 the Library of the Natural History Museum, South Kensington. In 

 this copy the thorax is well draAvn, the prothoracic " collar " distinct, 

 and of the brown ground colour (not white); the patagia well-marked, 

 and of the ground colour; the scaling of the mesothorax dark in front, 

 with a pale transverse mark behind this medially, the rest of the meso- 

 and the metathorax also of the ground colour. We do not even think 

 Mr. Prout will now urge that this mesothoracic mark has any connection 

 with the well-defined prothoracic collar of Hiibner's figure, or that of our 

 edehteni. The figure in this copy of Hiibner also shows no trace of the 

 three white dots along the wing, but has the well-defined dark, pale- 

 encircled arnndineta reniform. (4) We have examples of uriDidliteta 

 without the slightest trace of a discal dot on the upperside of the hindwings. 

 Until someone can really find tbe"whitecollar"depicted, in the sense the 

 words mean, and the characteristic wing-markings of edehteni, in Hiib- 

 ner's figure, and show that the reniform depicted is that of edehteni, and 

 not that oi aritndi)ieta, v,-e mast insist that neuriea, lih. = anir,diiii ta, 

 Schmidt, that the name neurica is applicable to our specimens from 

 Cambridge, Norfolk, Essex, etc., and that the new species from Sussex 

 has no other name applicable except edehteni. We shall be glad now 

 in the interest of our readers, to give the matter a rest in our journal, 

 as enough has been written to enable those interested to study the 

 facts quite for thein-elvos. — J. W. Tutt. 



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