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to the hind margin. It is figured in Newman's * British Moths,' 

 p. 255, fig. 2, and occurs in the North of England and Scot- 

 land. My own specimens came from Mr. Finlay, Meldon Park, 

 Morpeth, Mr. Henderson of Glasgow, Perth, &c. At Entom. 

 X. p. 129, we read, "A. runiicis also occurs nearly black at 

 times with us," i. e., in the E. Biding of Yorkshire. It is not 

 uncommon near Beverley (E. Yorks). 



/3. var. euphorbia, St. (non Hb.) — Under this name our early 

 British lepidopterists figured and described a var. of rumicis, 

 wdiicli they erroneously referred to Hiibner's euphorhuB, which is 

 a very different species. There is a figure in Humphrey and 

 Westwood's ' British Moths,' pi. xlii. fig 13, and a description, 

 vol. i. p. 197. The figure does not agree with the description very 

 well. The figure depicts a form which has the space between the 

 stigmata pale, and suffused more than is usual with dark brown 

 blotches. I have seen nothing answering to the figure, but the 

 description represents a form fairly abundant in the S.E. district. 



y. var. euphrasi(B, St. (non Dup.). — A pale var. of rumicis is 

 referred by Mr. Stephens to the Continental eiiphrasiie of 

 Treitschke and Duponchel. It is very different to that species, 

 but is a well-marked and uncommon variety of rumicis. The 

 ground colour of a pale yellowish grey, with many black 

 transverse lines but no dark patches ; the anterior stigma 

 obsolete. A pale lunule is developed at the end of the elbowed 

 line, and the last striga is pale, wavy and continuous. I have 

 some fine specimens of this unusual, pale form, which appear to 

 agree exactly with the description of Stephens' specimen, except 

 that they have the anterior stigma indistinct, not obsolete. My 

 specimens were taken in Cornwall, by Mr. F. Norgate, of Brandon. 



It would seem that in Britain our specimens of rumicis from 

 the South-west are very pale ; much suffused with brown in the 

 South, South-east, and the Midlands ; and much suffused with 

 black in the North of England and Scotland. 



A crony eta, Och., auricoma, F. 



a. var. similis, Haw. — In this variety the wings are more ashy 

 in colour, with a slightly waved hne before the middle of the 

 anterior wings ; another short oblique line is in the centre of the 

 wing, and a third pale one at the apex. 



/3. var. menyanthidis, Haw. (non Hb.). — This variety of auri- 



