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free from ochrcous tinge, weakly marker!. It occurs as far westward 

 iis Scandinavia, and, it is just possible, may ultimately be detected 

 here. ] 



\'! Lencoptera,Thnh(s;.: incnetriesii, Kretsclira. : cineracen.t, Tgstr. — This 

 also cannot be a var. of qnadripnndata, on account of the conformation 

 of tlie c? genitalia. Auri villi us treats it as a separate species, but 

 Staudinger now opines (Kom., Mem. sur Lep., vi., p. 48o) that it is a 

 northern form of seliui, Boisd. ; this is likely enough, as I do not 

 suppose Aurivillius had compared it with the non-Swedish sch'ni. Like 

 fjrisea, menetriem is chiefly Russian, but extends to Scandinavia ; while 

 sclinl occurs, though sparingly, over a good part of Europe. Hence, I 

 do not see why we should not discover menetriesii in Britain, and I 

 should recommend entomologists who possess nearly unicolorous, cine- 

 rascent specimens, with snow-white hind- wings, to submit them to 

 minute anatomical investigation.] 



[Alhina, Eversm. : cubicnhu-is var. H.-S., 425 : and var. congesta, L. 

 This seems to be entirely a Russian and Asiatic species.] 



There are also some other very close allies (or possibly varieties) of 

 quttdn'pnnctata orftelini: such as infuse a, Const., from the Landes; larlnioso, 

 l)onz. ; (inceps, H.-S. ; miUeri, Schi;lz. I must not, howevei', linger any 

 longer at this group, except to say that I think it is worth}' of very close 

 and careful study. 



Caradrina MORPHEUS. — Morpheus, Hufn., Berl. Mag., iii., p. 302, 

 Xo. 52 (176G); sepii, Hb., IGl. — Hufnagel describes the type of this 

 species as " dirty yellow," Rottemburg, as " dirty j^ellow-brown ;" so 

 that, as Mr. Tutt says (though only quoting Yieweg's later diagnosis 

 of 1790), " the yellow or ochreous specimens constitute the type." 

 The only varieties that I know have been worked out by Mr. Tutt 

 (op. cit., p. 147), and are : — 



a. var. scpii, Hb. — Rusty reddish-brown, much the colour uf dark 

 (ihines ; dark markings distinct. I have seen no British examples quite 

 agreeing Avith this, though, perhaps, all our distinctly marked brown 

 specimens are best referred to here. 



f3. var. ohsrnra, Tutt. — Deep greyish-fuscous, inclining to blackish; 

 markings indistinct. 



y. var. minor, Tutt. — Ver}^ small (|-in.). 



Group II. 



Systematists do not seem to agree at all in the order in wliicli they 

 place the species of this group ; I therefore venture to follow my own 

 order, based on characters of the J antennas and possibly also suiiported 

 by the genitalia. 



C.'^.RADRiNA suPERSTKS. — Snperstes [Ochs. (1816)] ; Tr., v. ii., p. 260 

 (1825); H.-S., 382: •? hhindn, Rh., 162: ?p?ar.<a(7m/s, Hb., 576. 



Lederer rejects the name hlanda, Hb., for this species to avoid 

 collision with the bhnuhi of the Vienna Cat(dogne{=^ fnraxaci, Hb.). For 

 my i)art, I am glad that he has done so, for Hiibner's fig. 162 looks to 

 me more like one of my tnraxaci fi'om Sandown than like any sitjierstcs 

 1 have ever seen, and I only add hlaudn, Hb., as a synonym here in 

 deference to unanimous testimony of entomological authorities. Plan- 

 taiiinis. Hb., is gcnevally referred to ainhigua as a very strongly marked 

 var., but to me it appears like fnijiersie.^, and I am pleased to And one 

 authority, Guence, on my side. 



