30 l''"'>'' 



E. roseticohma, Zeller. {Germarana, AVillv., Doubl., non ITilb.) — 

 Easily recognizable by its dark purple-brown, almost immaculate fore- 

 wings, and slightly rounded costa. Under a lens the ocellus above the 

 anal angle becomes sligbtly visible, containing four faint black streaks, 

 and edged behind with blue. The costa, also, has a few distant, faint 

 whitish streaks. 



Found among wild rose, the larva feeding in the hips. 



The name Germarann, Hiibner, has been applied by mistake to 

 this species. Atropurpurana andpro.vimrrua of Haworth and Stephens, 

 quoted in Mr. Doubleday's list as synonyms, do not seem to refer to it, 

 since the former is described as having wJ/ife cilia, whilst the latter 

 seems to agree best vcith pismia, Gru. Its identity with roseticolana is 

 affirmed by Prof. Zeller himself, and his description applies most ac- 

 curately to it. It is worthy of remark, however, that an allied species 

 with broader wings and costa nearly straight has been sent to Mr. 

 Doubleday by Dr. Staudinger under this name. It is dull, dark, pur- 

 plish-brown, w^ith a few yellowish scales and white costal streaks. It 

 does not seem to have been found in this country. 



Dr.Wocke (in Stand. Cat.) seems to have overlooked Wilkinson's 

 description of this species entirely. 



E. nigricana, Stcph. {tenehrosana, Dup., pisana, Gn., Doubl., proxi- 

 ??zfl'??.r/, "Wilk., nehrifaiia, AVilk., Doubl., iion Treitschke). — The common 

 pea-feeding species, readily known by its glossy fore-wings, brownish 

 or drab with an olive tinge, and the distinct yellow or whitish costal 

 streaks. Specimens of the supposed two species {nigricana ixwdi proxi- 

 maiw, AVilk.) having been submitted to Prof. Zeller, he wrote — "That 

 "he considered them to belong to one variable species, tenehrosana, 

 " Dup." He also, with his usual kindness, sent specimens of the true 

 nelritana, Tr.,from Austria, a species which hardly occurs in northern 

 Germany. These are larger and rather darker, and have the third 

 costal gemination produced to the ocellus, where it makes a sudden 

 bend and forms a perpendicular, bright golden line down the inner 

 margin of the ocellus. A similar straight golden line bounds it ex- 

 teriorly, and the fifth costal streak is not continued to the cilia as in 

 our species. 



I can find no evidence to contradict Prof. Zeller's opinion. Wil- 

 kinson's descriptions of the larvae of the two supposed species arc 

 practically identical, and Mr. Bond, Mr. Machin, and others, who have 

 taken and bred them, agree with me that they have no reliable point 

 of distinction, both forms being taken together. Mr. Doubleday, 



