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series of black dashes on the nervures. In the female the fore-wings 

 are broader and more decidedly acuminate, also as strongly honey- 

 coloured ; in one specimen, the blackish indications of a ' second line ' 

 on the fore-wings are absent ; in ,another they are more noticeable 

 than in the male ; but in the third there is a conspicuous and complete 

 curved line of black dashes and spots from the costal to the dorsal 

 margin, where it is supplemented by further blackish dashes along 

 that margin, and a black spot in the position from which would arise 

 the usual first line. This last specimen is a very striking and 

 conspicuous insect. I know of no connecting link to unite the form 

 which I have here described with /.. jntUnts, yet, from the presence 

 and position of the three round black dots (when visible) a very close 

 alliance to that species must be admitted ; still, from the somewhat 

 greater robustness of the thorax, the greater breadth and different 

 shape of the fore-wings, and their very peculiar colour and texture, 

 I am disposed to think it specifically distinct, and, in that vieAV, propose 

 for it the name oifaricohir. At first sight, it strongly reminds one of 

 Xona<iria lutosa, and especially of the small race of that speices which 

 was once called ^Y. irctis, but from this species its hairy eyes at once 

 separate it." 



The description led us to suppose that it might be the aberration 

 of Leucania iinjnira ab. punctiUnca {Ihit. Xoct., i., p. 40), and we 

 made this statement {antr, p. 38), but an examination of the 

 specimens exhibited by Mr. G. F. Mathew, at the meeting of the 

 Ent. Soc. of London, on June 3rd, showed that the specimens were, as 

 Mr. Barrett had suggested, more closely allied to L. pallcnx. 



After a very careful examination, we came to the conclusion that 

 they were, in reality, aberrations of the latter species, forming, indeed, 

 a parallel aberration to that of ab. punctilinea in L. iiiipura, but, in 

 the female specimen, much more strongly marked. 



It is well known that typical specimens of Leucania stiaminca and 

 /,. (ihsoh'ta have a well marked transverse row of small black dots 

 forming the elbowed line, and that a transverse row of tiny dots exists 

 on the nervures of the hind-wings in these species. It is the form of 

 L. impura, which exhibits similar markings to these, that has been 

 named pnnctilinea, and it appears to us that it is a parallel form of L. 

 pallens which Mr. Barrett has named faricolor. The form of L. 

 jiallem, known as ab. arriiata, St., has the transverse row of dots on 

 the nervures of the hind-wings, but these specimens not only possess 

 these spots remarkably well-defined, but the dots forming the elbowed 

 line of the fore-wings are much better defined than in any we 

 remember to have seen before. 



It may be in the recollection of some that in British Noctuae and 

 their Varieties, vol. iv., p. 11, we discuss a remarkable statement of 

 Mr. Butler, who, in the British Museum collection, lumps a long series 

 of American L. jndleus with a few British specimens of L. stranunea, 

 and makes the following astounding statement: — " L. pallens ot the 

 United States agrees absolutely with the European L. stranrinea. 

 The two forms have practically the same characters, and, if received 

 from any extra-European locality, would never have been considered 

 distinct ; indeed, it is possible to find examples which cannot with 

 certainty be referred to one form rather than the other. L. straminea 

 differs chiefly in the generally more prominent pale longitudinal 



