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many Scotch and Irisli localities. The variety rufescois is, 

 without doubt, the ectypa of Boisduval. 



^. var. sv^'usa, St. — Another modification of var. ectypa, with 

 a tendency to become melanic, having " tlie fore wings reddish, 

 streaked with whitish ashy between the veins ; with a single 

 dusky dot at the apex of the discoidal cell ; and two or three 

 obsolete brownish streaks near the extremity ; hind wings 

 whitish, with a broad, sub-apical, dusky stripe ; the apical 

 margin paler." (Humphrey &; Westwood's ' British Moths,' 

 p. 218.) The variety is figured in the same volume, plate xlvii. 

 fig. 8. The figure represents the space below the median 

 nervure and between the other nervures thickly sprinkled with 

 minute black atoms, and this figure is identical with a fine daik 

 specimen I captured at Deal in July, 1887. 



£. var. ochracea, St. — The type of this variety " measures 



only 13 lines in expanse ; the fore wings are ' pale ochreous, with 



a slight rufescent tinge in certain lights, immaculate, obscurely 



streaked with pale fuscous between the nervures ; the strise at 



the base and on the inner margin being the darkest, as in 



L. comma; hind wings whitish ash, with the margin slightly 



darker.'" (Humphrey & Westwood's 'British Moths,' p. 218.) 



This small specimen taken at Darenth in August was supposed 



by the late Mr. Henry Doubleday to be a specimen of the second 



brood. I have, however, many large specimens of the summer 



brood from various localities answering this description, and I 



would propose that the name ochracea comprise all reddish 



ochreous forms, whatever the number of dots developed. Var. 



B of Guenee's ' Noctuelles,' p. 93, would appear to belong to 



ochracea. It is described as having " a reddish shade under the 



median nervure, and similar streaks towards the outer margin. 



Inferior wings having the nervures sprinkled with black on the 



disc." 



(Tu be continued.) 



A FOHTMGHT IN SWlT/iaiLAND. 



Rv R. J. Hutchinson. 



'Tins spring it was my good fortune to spend a short holiday 



in the beginning of May in Switzerland, and although I did not 



go out with any intention of collecting, the beauty and, to 



