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redclisli costfe, but the red has generally a tendency to brown. I have 

 no doubt that the Messrs. Hodges with their great energy, will soon 

 work up enough specimens to supply the want in our cabinets, and give 

 our leading lepidopterists a genuine type for study. — J. W. Tutt. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE C. 



1. — Chortodes morrisii = C. hondii, captured at Folkestone (In Coll. Tutt). 



2 — Tapinostola fidva, Hb. var. concolor, Tutt — captured near Warrington (In 



Coll. Tutt). 

 3.— Tapinostola concolor, Gn.( = eMrema, Hb. ?) — captured by Capt. Vipanin Hunts 

 (In Coll. Hodges). 



4. — Caradrina amhigiia. Fab captured at Deal (In Coll. Tutt). 



5. — Caradrina superstes, H.S., (? Tr.) — captured Freshwater (In Coll. Hodges). 

 e. — Aphytoceros vagans, Tutt (Ent. Bee, I., p. 203) — taken at Chepstow (In Coll. 



J. Mason.) 

 7. — Noctua festiva,ll\). \&r. conjiiia (extreme form), H.S. — captured Perth (In Coll. 



Tutt). 

 8. — NoctiM festiva, Hb. var. meyidica. Fab. — captured Perth (In Coll. Tutt). 

 9. — Noctua festiva, Hb. var. grisea, Tutt — captured Darlington (In Coll. Tutt). 

 10.— Noctua confiua, Tr. var. obsoleta, Tutt — captured Shetlands (In Coll. Tutt). 

 11. — Noctua conjiua, Tr. — captured Shetlands (In Coll. Tutt). 

 12. — Laphygma exigua, Hb. — captured Freshwater (In Coll. Hodges). 

 13-14. — Abraxas grossulariata,\-a.vs. — bred by Mr. Gee, Holloway (In Coll. Hodges). 

 15-18. — CoUas edusa, vars. — captured Freshwater, 1892 (In Coll. Hodges). 

 19. — Acidalia hiimiliata, Hufn. {— osseata, Hb.) — captured Freshwater (In Coll. 

 Hodges). 



In presenting Plate C to our readers, we trust that it will be of help to them 

 in enabling them to recognise and discriminate some little known and rare 

 species and varieties of Bi'itish lepidoptera. Some of these we intend to make 

 the subjects of separate articles in the near future, i.e , as soon as our space will 

 allow. At any rate, we feel sure that figures of such species as C. ambigua and 

 C. superstes, N. festiva and confiua will be a^jpreciated by those collectors without 

 the advantages of their Metropolitan brethren. — Ed. 



Notes on Staukopiis fagi.* — We have heard a great deal lately of 

 1892 having been a great "■ edusa ^' and "sancia'' year, and I think it 

 may further be claimed fairly that it was a great "fagT year — and this 

 fact offers a reasonable excuse for opening a discussion on Stauropus 

 fagi. In these few scattered notes, or perhaps I ought rather to say, 

 compilation of notes of this interesting species, it seems to me that the 

 best method of procedure will be to take first the earliest stage of the 

 insect, in fact to trace its history briefly from the cradle to the grave. 

 Before entering upon the subject, I must, however, explain that Mr. 

 Holland has supplied me Avith most of the notes on the habits of the 

 species, both in its larval and perfect stages, and I am also gi"eatly 

 indebted to Dr. Buckell. 



Ova. — Manner in lokicli oca are laid : — With regard to the manner 

 in which the eggs are laid, the Kev. Bernard Smith, m his interesting 

 " Notes on the Notodontida^ " {^Entomologist, xx., 290) says that the 

 eggs are " laid singly under a leaf of beech or oak and may occasionally 

 be found in shady spots." He also states that he has never found a 

 second one on the same bush. Mr. Battley, however [Entomologist's 

 Becord, iii., 161) records the finding of 56 ova on a single beech trunk 



* Paper read before the City of London Entomological Society, Jan, nth, 1893. 



