8 [June, 



Taken rather freely in the north of England by Mr. J. B. Hodg- 

 kinsou in May and June. 



Oafojjfria(GraphoUfa,Wi\k.)modestana,ltI.-y^. — I find it advisable 

 to notice this species here, removing it from its unsuitable position in 

 another family, because of its near relationship with species in this 

 genus. It is a variable and local species, and much confusion has 

 arisen in consequence respecting its correct name. Mr. Doubleday 

 sent specimens some years ago to the late Herr Lederer, of Vienna, 

 who returned them named conterminana, H.-S., while Dr. AVocke makes 

 this species synonymic with modicana, Zeller, and Prof. Zeller himself 

 thought it might be a variety of that species. 



For an opportunity of working it out I am indebted to my friend 

 Mr. Howard Vaughan, who, in July and August, 1872, collected a 

 large number of specimens at Southend, and sent me a long and most 

 variable series, ranging from pale fulvous almost without markings to 

 blackish with all the markings (except the silvery ocellus) obscured. 

 Between these were well marked specimens agreeing with Wilkinson's 

 description, others agreeing with those named conterminana by Lederer, 

 and some (the central and apparently typical form) being identical 

 with a type of cemidana, Schlager, sent by Zeller. None, however, ap- 

 proach at all to the larger and plainer conterminana, nor to modicana, 

 Zeller, which is a delicate looking species with a shorter basal blotch, 

 a less angulated fascia, and a far broader and differently shaped ocellus, 

 and which has not yet been noticed in this country. It therefore be- 

 comes evident that eemulana, 8chl., as already substituted by Mr. 

 Doubleday in his list, is correct. I find also that the blackish varieties 

 of this species are, in some collections, incorrectly named parvulajia. 

 Mr. Yaughan tells me that all the varieties fly together among mixed 

 herbage, but appear to prefer swampy places. 



Catoptriaparvulana,yf\\k. — As I have already said, dark specimens 

 of C. eemulana are sometimes mistaken for this species. It may be 

 distinguished from them by the fore-wings being much narrower at 

 the base, and the costa more rounded, especially towards the tip. It 

 has not the mottled appearance of (cmidana, and seems constant in size 

 and colour. Mr. Bond tells me that he takes it on the cliffs in the 

 Isle of Wight, where eemulana does not seem to occur, and that he 

 thinks it is attached to the dwarf thistle (Cnicus acaulis). This seems 

 to be its only discovered locality, as it is quite unknown upon the con- 

 tinent. Wocke marks it unknown to him, and places it between 

 albersana and tenehrosana {nigricana). 



