VARIETIES OF NOCTU^ IN THE BRITISH ISLANDS. 151 



Herm. — June 13th and 14th: Vcmessa atalanta, V. cardui, 

 Pararge megcera, P. ageria, 



Jethou. — June 14th, grassy mound of an islet, chiefly a 

 rabbit-warren: Coenomjmpha 'pamphilus. 



Jersey. — June 22nd, St. Ouen's Bay: M. cinxia, T. rubi, 

 Argynnis latona, and Macroglossa stellatarum. June 24th, St. 

 Catherine's Bay : Zygcsna JiUpendulcs. June 30th, St. Ouen's 

 Bay: M. cinxia (rather worn), A. latona. July 4th, Rozel Bay: 

 Nemeophila russula. July 5th, St. Ouen's Bay: A. latona, Pieris 

 dapUcUce. July 6th, St. Clement's Bay : Agrotis exclamationis. 



Alderney. — July 7th, Braye Bay : Pieris hrassiccB. July 9th : 

 Chcerocampa porcelliis, Deilephila euphorbics (one solitary wing on 

 a common). This last-named species is very common in Jersey, 

 where its food-plant, the sea-spurge, abounds, especially in 

 St. Ouen's Bay. 



Epinephele iaiiira is also labelled in my collection from the 

 Channel Isles, and most probably occurs in all of them. 



Thyatira batis and T. derasa are likewise recorded, and may 

 have been obtained from a Jersey doctor of St. Saviour's, who, on 

 my way to Mr. Piquet, of St. Ouen's Bay, informed me that he 

 had taken Parnassius a})ollo and Papilio podalirius in the island, 

 and that P. machaon was common in the autumn. It is most likely 

 that he mistook other species for them, and to the occurrence of 

 these last-named insects I still append a query. 

 Dun Mallard, Cricklewood, N.W., February 2, 1888. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS A LIST OF THE VARIETIES 

 OF NOCTU^ OCCURRING IN THE BRITISH ISLANDS. 



By J. W. TuTT, F.E.S. 

 (Continued from p. 139.) 



Leucania, Och., loreyi, Dup. 

 Of- the variation in this widely-distributed species, Guenee 

 ■writes: — "I find no essential difference between our European 

 loreyi and those which I have received from M. Ilorslleld, ^Yho 

 bred them in Java. On the other hand, I have a female 

 specimen from Brazil slightly smaller and clearer. It varies 

 in ground colour." (' Noctuelles,' p. 81.) 



