NOTES ON COLLECTING, ETC. 59 



abundant species in my collecting grounds) have a pale ground colour 

 like the Aberdeen specimens more or less ; but a considerable minority- 

 have a greyish, some almost blackish, suffused appearance. I think the 

 southern form is rather of a brownish shade ? — T. J. Henderson, 

 Glasgow. 



Scandinavian varieties of British Species. — The following 

 varieties of British species are described in the Entomologisk Tidskrift, 

 1890, pp. 201, 202, by Enzio Reuter : — " Zottosoma punctaria, L. ab. 

 ififuscata. The wings of a dull colour with a sooty coloured fascia, more 

 densely spotted on each side, the underside of a suffused red, not so 

 fuscous, with the central part of the upper area of the anterior wings 

 deeply s iffused with liver-colour. Ab. arciifera (with figure;. The 

 anterior wings with the almost central fascia strongly arched in its 

 lower fourth, extending from thr; discoidal cell ( ? ). Thyatira batis, 

 L. ab. confluens (with figure). The superior wings with the base and 

 central area of a dull reddish white ; a semi-oval, dull, olive-fuscous 

 spot on the costal margin before the centre ; from this, almost to the 

 hind margin, sparingly sprinkled with fuscous dots, and with a dull 

 obsolete fascia ; the apical (outer) third decidedly olive-fuscous adorned 

 with the typical spots but with the posterior one much more obsolete 

 than in the type ; the cilia unicolorous fuscous. The posterior wings 

 as in the type, but the pale median fascia paler ; abdomen whitish ( $ )." 

 —J. W. TuTT, Westcombe Hill, S.E. 



ERRATUM.^Page 36, lines 3 and 4 from top of page, for DianthcBcia 

 capsincola, read Fidonia conspiaiata. 



^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



PaCHETRA LEUCOPHCEA BRED, WITH DESCRIPTION OF LaRVA AND PUPA. 



— As I have recently had the pleasure of rearing this moth — a pleasure 

 emphasised by various unsatisfactory failures with other species — a 

 note thereon may be interesting. I received at the end of June, 1890, 

 ten larvce which had just passed their first moult. They were the pro- 

 duct of Kentish eggs, and I was indebted for them to the kindness of 

 Mr. W. R. Jeffrey. I fed them throughout on Foa annua ; they soon 

 fed up and passed their second moult, and on July i8th had all com- 

 pleted the third change. On July 23rd two had already moulted a 

 fourth time, and thereafter they did not keep together. They all pro- 

 gressed very slowly after this date^, one larva moulting later than the 

 others, appeared to reach the last skin on fourth moult about August 

 22nd. The others moulted (fifth moult) into last skin during Septem- 

 ber. From this date they progressed still more slowly, but seemed full- 

 fed at end of October. They still, however, often ate a little. During 

 this period five of them died (sickening, ceasing to eat, and shrinking 

 till they died). They were kept in a cold room, but did not experience 

 any freezing temperature. On January 25th, on the frost giving, the 

 five that were still alive and eating occasionally were brought into a 

 warm room, when three at once spun up on January 29th, 30th 

 and 31st; a fourth spun on February loth, having fed a good deal in 

 the interval ; the fifth continued eating, but did not look robust ; it 



