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able, these spccimeus agree absolutely with those taken by Mr. Salvage 

 and more doubtfully with one or two at least in Zeller's series of 

 illuminatella. Since Zeller mentions in his first description fourteen 

 specimens^ ?ii\^ as the majority of his series agree with that bearing the 

 oldest label, whereas the specimen labelled and described in the 

 Linnfea Entomologica as his type is certainly different, we must adopt 

 the older specimens (those of the Isis) as typical illuminatella. 



This species does not agree with Salvage's captures (which are 

 similar to two specimens in Zeller's series of froEcocella^ and, moreover, 

 as the same unsuffused form is undoubtedly mixed with prcecocella in 

 our British cabinets and like the typical form is taken among juniper, 

 I am not at present prepared to dispute the conclusion arrived at by 

 Mr. Bankes and others that it is a variety of that species. My only 

 object in writing is to make the admission that I was mistaken in 

 calling it illuminatella, and to confirm my first impression that it is 

 wdiolly distinct from the species since described under the name 

 Atmoriella, which was undoubtedly included in Zeller's series of 

 illuviinatella. 



Merton Hall, Thetford : March, 1896. 



ON A VAEIETY OF LEUCANIA FALLENS AND A PROBABLY NEW 

 SPECIES OF THE SAME GENUS. 



BY C. G. BAREETT, F.E.S. 



Among some Leucanicje recently sent for examination by Mr. G. 

 F. Mathew, R.N., and captured by him on the coast of Suffolk and 

 Essex, is a form of L. pallens of quite unusual interest. A red variety 

 of this usually straws-coloured species is not of rare occurrence, but 

 such specimens usually show, most distinctly, the thickened white 

 nervures which so neatly and conspicuously ornament, with nearly 

 parallel white lines, the fore-wings of this species. In the specimens 

 now^ alluded to, however, no such white lines are visible. The colour 

 of their fore-wings is a deep purplish-red, almost the colour of red 

 pine wood, but it is smooth and nearly uniform, even the usually con- 

 spicuous whiteness of the median nervure having disappeared. The 

 size and shape are quite normal, and the three black dots, sometimes 

 visible on the fore-wings of ordinary L. pallens, are equally distinct, 

 but the hind-wings in the variety in question are, in both sexes, clouded 

 with smokj^-grey, and the nervures of those wings, in the middle area 

 especially, are decidedly darker. This variety of L. pallens seems to 

 agree closely with what Hiibner called L. ectijpa. 



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