142 tflfc entomologist's record. 



LiPARiDES. — PortJif'tria dispar. — The males were flying in the 

 greatest profusion in the hot sunshine, in one steep gully, at a short 

 distance from the hotel. They were also pretty generally distributed 

 wherever the trees were a little thick. Many examples came to light, 

 all males. The specimens captured here, as at Bourg d'Aru and 

 Aix-les-Bains, were very small, and quite difierent from the huge 

 Grenoble examples. 



NocTuroEs.— //rt'/('/?rt ilissiiiiilis ab. w-latinuin. — One very fine speci- 

 men of this dark aberration came to light. Evidently there is a 

 partial second brood of this species, as with us. DiantliDevia capso- 

 pJdla.—A worn, rather brownish, but unmistakeable specimen of this 

 species, captured by day in a lucerne field. Hadcna tri/olii {cheno- 

 podii). — One specimen only, disturbed in a lucerne field during the 

 day. Hadcna rubrircna. — One fine specimen, at light. Apamea late- 

 ritia. — One specimen, at light ; rather grey in colour. Caradrina 

 tara.raci. —One worn specimen, also disturbed on the borders of a 

 lucerne field, by day. Xoctna jdtrta. — One specimen, evidently of 

 second brood, captured at light. Ai/rojihila tral/ealis. — Not uncommon, 

 on a piece of ground overgrown with grass and wild flowers. Its 

 short, jerky flight, when disturbed, was unmistakeable ; but we 

 were surprised to find it so restricted here. The specimens were 

 much darker than our Suffolk examples. Helinthis dipsaccus. — A 

 few specimens only captured, flying by day, in the lucerne fields. 

 This insect is regularly double-brooded in the Paris environs, 

 the second brood occurring in early August, at Bagneux, so that, 

 although the Bourg specimens were in good condition, probably the 

 bulk of the emergence was over. Brijophila peiia ab. svfum. — A 

 most interesting form, darker than anything we had seen before, with 

 the exception of a specimen or two from the Mendel Pass, in which, 

 however, the dark coloration was mixed with orange. We could 

 not find the walls they frequented, or at any rate, we could not find 

 the moths on the walls ; perhaps they were too well protected. Those 

 captured were attracted by the light. 



Deltoides. — Hi/pena crinalix.— One specimen only, and that worn. 



Nycteolides. —Sarrothripa undulanus (rcrai/ana). —Two forms were 

 captured, at light : (1) Dark grey, almost unicolorous, the basal and 

 costal spots reddish, and only faintly marked. (2) Pale grey, with 

 dark, conspicuous basal and costal markings. 



(To be continued.) 



Are Tephrosia bistortata (crepuscularia) and T. crepusciilaria 

 (biundularia) distinct species? 



By WILLIAM HEWETT. 



(Continued from p. 109). 



In the discussion already alluded to (Ibid., p. 805', Mr. Tutt refers 

 to the Tephrosia from Perth, as being specifically identical with the 

 southern T. bistortata, and says : — " It seems to me remarkable, and 

 worthy of notice, that so far north, where T. bistortata is single- 

 brooded, '•* a small percentage of the progeny apparently assumes the 



• Mr. Tutt has since bred the Perth insect, and has obtained second-brood 

 specimens. — Ed. 



