NOTKS ON A SPECIMEN OF ORRUODIA ERYTHROCEPnALA, ETC. HS 



4. — The second basal line is ocini- 4. — The second l)asal line is two- 

 distant from the first hasal thirds of the distance from 

 line and from the orl)icular. the first l)asal line and 

 The first angle, formed near one-third from the orbicu- 

 the costa, is not very acute. lar. It forms two successive 

 The transverse lines are angles near the costa, both 

 only slightly defined by the of whicli are very acute, 

 edging. The transverse lines are 



generally distinctly defined 



by the edging. 



5. —A conspicuous edging to the 5. — The pale line occurs in some 



costa, appearing as a pale varieties of 0. vaccinii, but 



sliglitly ochreous line, eeas- is much less conspicu- 



ing opposite the reniform. ous, inasmuch as it more 



neai-ly ai)proaches the 

 ground colour of the wing. 

 6. — The orljicular stigma, nearly 6. — The orbicular stigma, oval and 

 round and very slightly oblique. The reniform 



obli({ue. Tlie reniform stigma has the lower por- 



stigma has three black dots tion filled in with black in 



at its lower and outer por- most specimens, in a few 



tion. the black is absent, but in 



none is represented by dots. 



It will be interesting to ascertain how far these differences hold good 

 for other specimens taken in England or abroad. My specimen seems 

 to differ from lliibner's figure of the variety, chiefly, in the transverse 

 lines and outlines of tlie stigmata l)eing bluisli-grey, instead of ochreous, 

 in the venation being paler than the gTound colour, and in a blacker 

 hind-wing having two paler transverse lines. — Buckerell Lodge, near 

 Honiton, E. Devon. Dec. IZth, 1894. 



]\|otes on Garadrina anibigua and G. superstes. 



By J. W. TUTT, F.E.S. 

 I am indebted to Mr. Prout for calling my attention to the fact that 

 the specimens from the Isle of Wight, which we have recently been call- 

 ing Caradriaa snperstes, are in reality, C. ambhjua. This blunder is all 

 the more inexcusable, because I have diagnosed them quite correctly in 

 TIte British Noctuae and their Varieties, have taken what I suppose to be 

 both species at Deal and G. niiihi<jna in the Isle of Wight, and have seen 

 a fair number of Continental specimens (including a large part of those 

 captured in 189;^, by Mr. A. J. Hodges, in Guernsey). I have had but 

 little leisure to give to the Nocture since the above work was completed, 

 and hence, trusted to memory rather than to reference. As is stated in 

 The British Noctuae, &c. (vol. i., pp. 148-149), Caradrina amhi<jna is tlie 

 greyer and Caradrina superstes the more ochreous species. The 

 Guernsey and Isle of Wight specimens belong most distinctly to the 

 greyer species —that is to C. ambigna. This only leaves as C. 

 superstes, five of my Deal specimens, but Mr. Front's remarks will make 

 a fresh examination of these, in the light of Continental material, 

 absolutely necessary. The remainder of my Deal sjiecimens (a few 

 scattered from 1885-1892), as well as my captures in the Isle of Wight 



