VARIATION. 13 



of Esper, or the dori/las of Hiibner, — F. B, Newnham, Church Stretton, 

 Salop. December 6th, 1893. 



Varieties of Lepidoptera exhibited at the York and District 

 Field Naturalists' Society. — The following exhibits of varieties and 

 local forms have been made during the past year : — The President, 

 Mr. G. C. Dennis, F.E.S. : a living specimen (bred) of Arctia lubricipeda 

 var. radlata from Barnsley. Mr. R. Dutton : Vars. of Ahraxaii nhaata 

 and Arctia lubricipeda ; dark var. of Abraxas grossulariata and her- 

 maphrodite specimen of Epione vesj)ertaria from York ; forms of 

 Asphalia diluta and Hadena protea, also from York. Mr. J, Hawkins : 

 Hi/beruia progemmaria var. fuscata ; Tephrosia biundnlaria var. 

 delamerensis (bred), and Zijgaena lonicerce var. semi-lutescens (bred) from 

 York. Mr. S. Walker : Vars. of Orthosia suspecta from York ; also 

 Boarmia rhomboidaria var. perfiimaria. Mr. G. Jackson : a number of 

 exceptionally fine vars. of Arctia lubricipeda, bred from larvaj obtained 

 in the neighbourhood of York during the past few years ; amono-st 

 these were many thickly blotched specimens, known as the " York 

 form," but none of them approached " k beaucoup pres " the now well- 

 known var. radiata, and Mr. Jackson stated that he had never suc- 

 ceeded in breeding this variety nor any form nearly resembling it, 

 although he had bred the species for a number of successive years. 

 Mr. W. Hewett : Bisulcia ligustri var. olivacea from Driffield ; dark 

 forms of Luperina testacea from Hartlepool ; vars. of Arctia lubricirjeda 

 from Driffield and other localities, that from Driffield having the fore 

 wings typical, but the hind wings of the same colour as var. radiata 

 viz., smoky black, the base, wing-rays and fringe alone being cream- 

 coloured ; the head and thorax were cream-coloured, the body yellow, 

 with six black sj)ots down the middle and on each side ; the anteniiEe 

 simple ; also a fine var. of Arctia caia from Hull, in which the fore 

 wings were of an almost uniform brown colour, the hind wino-s beino- 

 black excej^t at the base and fringe ; forms of Anchocelis pistacina from 

 Hull and Beverley, numerous forms of Taeniocarnpa gothica selected 

 from more than 300 specimens ; vars. of Paedisca solandriana from 

 Darlington ; a beautiful melanic form of Smerinthus popidi (bred) from 

 Beverley, and a pale form from Hull ; a var. of Vanessa c-albnm with 

 the hind wings of a uniform chocolate colour ; Hybernia progemmaria 

 var. fuscata and Tephrosia biundularia var. delamerensis, with inter- 

 mediate forms of both sj^ecies, from York ; melanic forms of Diurnea 

 fagella from Sledmere ; a var. of Abraxas grossulariata having the fore 

 wings almost entirely black, from Beverley, and a similar var., bred 

 this season, from York ; a long and variable series of Lomaspilis 

 marginnta from York ; two suffused examples of Ephyra pendnlaria 

 from York ; pale forms of Abraxas ulmata from Sledmere, as well as 

 an almost white specimen and another lead coloured of the same sjiecies 

 from Drewton Dale, Yorkshire ; two dark specimens of Odontopera 

 bidentata from Hull ; very dark Noctua xanthographa from Hull : vars, 

 of Orthosia suspecta from York ; Zygcena lonicerce var. semi-httesceus 

 from York ; a variable series of Apamea fibrosa from Wicken Fen ; a 

 fine var. (bred) of Vanessa urtica} ; Melanthia rubiginata var. plumbata 

 from the North of Scotland ; light, dark, and intermediate forms of 

 Agrotis puta from Kent ; several tine dark and liglit varieties of 

 Abraxas grossulariata, bred this season at York. — Wm. Hewett. 



