2o-t THE entomologist's RECORD. 



Ortliosia mucilenta. — The most aliuudaiit form with us is of a pale 

 ochreous colour, with or without the black spot in the lower half of the 

 reniform, and with very little trace of a central shade. Nos. 1, 2 and 3 

 represent this form. Similar specimens, but with the central shade 

 well developed as in No. 4, are fairly frequent. The darker reddish 

 variety." such as No. 5, is far from common. 



Anchocelis litura. — Only two named varieties of this species are found 

 at Doncaster, and of these, var. rufa is the more aljundant. Nos. 3 and 

 •i are of this form. No. 3 is remarkable for the strong development of 

 the row of black spots near the hind margin. Of var. rufa-pallida, 

 Tutt, which has the basal portion of the fore-wing pale grey, strongly 

 marked specimens are occasionally met with, but more frequent bj^ far 

 are intermediates between this and var. nifa. 



Orrliodia (Cerastis, Glaea) vaccinii. — This interesting species is ex- 

 tremely abundant, and varies so greatl}-, that many specimens are difficult 

 to refer to any of the varieties named in The British Noctnae, etc., but 

 good types of the following varieties arc oljtainable. No. 1 = var. 

 ochrea, Tutt, very common. Many intermediate merge into variegata, 

 rufa and spadicea. No. 2 = var. variegata, Tutt, abundant, merging 

 into spadicea and mixta. No. 3 = var. nifa, Tutt ; good, well marked 

 specimens of this form are not common. Many specimens are more or 

 less marbled, and the lines are visible, approaching variegata and spadicea. 

 No. 4- = var. mixta, Stdgr. ; it is far from common. No. 5 = vaccinii, 

 Linn. This dark red unicolorous form is very common, and merges 

 into unicolor, Tutt. Many of these dark forms are very difficult to 

 distinguisli from the next species, 0. liguJa. 



Orrhodia lignla, Esp. {spadicea, Gn.). — This species, though common, 

 is not nearly so abundant as vaccinii, nor does it vary so much. The 

 commonest form is the unicolorous black-red var. spadicea, Haw. ; var. 

 suhnigra, with the subterminal band more or less ochreous, is also com- 

 mon, but var. polita, Hb., is ver}^ rare. I have only seen two, one of 

 which I have in my box. The other escaped, and may still be living. 



Scojjelosoma satellitia. — This species equals, if it does not exceed, 0. 

 raccinii in its abundance at sugar in the late autumn. It varies much in 

 depth of ground-colour, from dull purplish-grey to ochreous. The 

 very dark forms are not common, and are perhaps referable to the 

 Linneean type. Mr. Tutt says of the type : — " The type is described by 

 Linnaeus as having a white reniform " [a careless blunder, which has 

 before been pointed out. — Ed.] : but in the Linntean description quoted 

 (British Noctnae, vol. iii., p. 7) are the words, " punctum flavi;m inter 

 puncta duo nivea miniTtissima," and this would seem, so far as my Latin 

 wliich is much out of repair would tell me, to mean " a yellow spot 

 lietween two minute spots." If this translation be correct, the dark 

 form with j^ellow reniform is the type. Such a form I have never found 

 near Doncaster, all my dark varieties having white reniforms. The 

 red forms are sometimes very lieautifully marked and have a lovely 

 purple sheen upon them. 



MelUnia circellaris (Xanthia ferrngiuea). — Of this species I took a 

 long series during the autumn of 1893, and an examination of them 

 led me to the conclusion that more varietal names are required for this 

 insect. Nos. 1 and 2 are var. ferrngiuea, Hb., reddish ochreous with 

 dark transverse lines and central shade. Nos. 3 and 4 are something 

 like the var. macilenta, Hb., but differ from that form in having the 



