244 [April, 



a larva feeding amoug roots of a small wiry grass, wliicli, however, I 

 fully believe was tliat of some species of Cramhus ; I was unable to 

 rear it. 



I have an example of a very beautiful Sciapliila, similar to this, 

 Tfith much broader fore-wings (sent by M. Ragonot, and taken, I 

 believe, on the Alps), under the name of Penziana, cevi?im\j a distinct 

 species, which seems to agree fairly with IIiibnei''s figure. Mr. Double- 

 day also heard, many years ago, from Dr. Wocke, that this species 

 was not the Penziana of Hiibner. It seems desirable, therefore, to 

 adopt a name about which there cannot be much doubt ^ hellana, 

 Curtis. 



Colquliounana^'R. D. Catalogue.— Closely allied to the last species 

 is a handsome form which has stood in lists and collections for many 

 years under this name. It size and measurements are almost exactly 

 the same as those of hellana, but the dorsal margin of the fore-wings 

 is not so straight, making the wing a little broader near the base, and 

 , not so sharply wedge-shaped. It is a handsome species ; ground-colour 

 of fore-wings slate-grey, varying much in intensity, and occasionally 

 whitish in the central area. Markings of the usual fasciae much like 

 those in Z'pZ/ffMrt, but slightly more oblique, and not nearly so sharply 

 defined. Hind-wings whitish, tinged with grey at the margins. Head 

 and thorax of the same shade of grey as the fore-wings. 



The late Mr. T. H. Allis, writing in 1868, told me that he believed 

 it to be distinct (from hellana, Curt.), that it "occurred in lower 

 ground than that species." It is, in fact, like conspersana, an inhabi- 

 tant of sea-side rocky localities, taking the place of that species on the 

 more northern west coast. It is tolerably common in such places near 

 Dublin and the Isle of Man. Mr. Hodgkinson asserts that it was reared 

 by Mr. Gregson from the roots of sea-pink. 



ietericana, Hw. — I see no reason why this species should be ex- 

 cluded from Sciapliila. It is very nearly allied to conspersana, and a 

 grey variety reared by Mr. Jeffrey, of Ashford,is quite undistinguish- 

 able from a Sciapliila. Larvae sent by Mr. Jeffrey were moderately 

 long and slender, slightly attenuated at the extremities, pale yellowish, 

 with rather broad dorsal and subdorsal longitudinal greenish-grey lines, 

 spots black, head ])ale brown, with a black spot at each side, plates 

 pale brown. In blossoms of Hijpocliceris radicata, Aiithemis arvensis, 

 and Chrysanthemum leucanthcmiim, drawing together the ray-florets. 

 Feeding in May and June, moth emerging in July. Pupa light brown. 



Pembroke : February, 1881. 



