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sub-varietios nifa-albo, with white reniform ; riifa-flavo, with yellow ; 

 and rufa itself with red reniform. 



4. H. luccns (with red reniform) and its sub-vars. hicem-alho, lucens- 

 flavo, are also remarkably beautiful, being large, deeply and richly 

 coloured, finely mottled, with large prominent stigmata. 



5. Var, hrunnea, Tutt (n. var.). — " Of a brown hue, with a distinct 

 ochreous tint, sometimes reddish centrally, with three sub-varieties, 

 hrunnca-alho (with white reniform), hrunnea-rufo (with red reniform), 

 brunnea-flavo (with yellow reniform)." Of this variety I captured a 

 very tine lot of specimens. 



Altogether my series of lucem bears out remarkably the conclusions 

 arrived at by Mr. Tutt.*-' 



Hydroecia paludis : its varieties and sub-varieties. — Similar as 

 in many respects are H. liccens and H. paludis, variable as are both 

 species (or sub-species), and parallel as are their variations, yet they 

 never overlap each other, nor do they cause the slightest confusion to 

 a trained eye in their separation. The greater number of the specimens 

 oi paludis that I have captured are of the forms described by Mr. Tutt, 

 but there is besides, a red form which was apparently not known to 

 Mr. Tutt, and which might easily be mistaken by those not thoroughly 

 conversant with both forms in nature iovH. lucent var. rufa, although it 

 rarely approaches the intensity in hue of that species, and the over- 

 whelming tendency in jtaludis of the ochreous to supplant the red is 

 well exemplified in the two brightest specimens of paludis which I have, 

 and which are of a distinctly reddish-ochreous tint. 



The type of paludis is exceedingly rare here ; in fact, Mr. Tutt tells 

 me that there is not one among a representative series that I sent for 

 his inspection, but all the other forms described in the Brit.Nociuae, 

 vol. i., pp. 63-64, are obtainable, and, in addition, the red form 

 hitherto unknoAvn to Mr. Tutt, is not uncommon. 



It is remarkable how good are the characters pointed out by Mr. 

 Tutt for this species {Ibid. p. 59), both as to the more pointed apex of 

 the fore-wings, and the narrowness of the reniform. It is indeed rare 

 to find in paludis even a trace of the inner edge of the reniform, which 

 is so constant in nictitam, but lucens appears almost intermediate in 

 this respect. 



The varieties and sub-varieties which we obtain are : — 



1. Var. intermedia, Tutt [Brit. Noet., i., p. 64), with its sub- 

 varieties inter media-albo and iniertuedia-flavo. 



2. Var. .grism, Tutt {Brit. Noet., i., p. 64), with its sub-varieties 

 grisea-<ilbo and grisea-flavo. 



3. Var. rufa, n. var. — " Of a dull reddish tint, inclining to brown 

 or ochreous ; sub-var. rufa-albo, with white reniform ; sub-var. rufa- 

 jiavo, with yellow reniform." — Tutt. I have before remarked that two 

 specimens present an aberration of the ground colour of this variety, 

 which is of a much brighter tint than is usually the case. 



I may add that I have not yet observed a specimen of this form 

 with a red reniform. 



Celaena haworthii and its varieties. — In The British Noctuae 

 and their Varieties, vol. i., pp. 107-108, Mr. Tutt does not give a short 



* I am indebted to Mr. Acton for the chance of inspecting a magnificent series 

 of 90 lucen.1, and for the insertion of the description of var hrunnea above into his 

 MS.— J. W. Tutt. 



