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part of the wing obsolete. The two transverse rows of dots 

 fainter than in the type. 



/3. var. hipunctata, mihi. — Ground colour pale ochreous, with 

 no trace of a dark shade under the median nervure, and no 

 scattered fuscous scales. A short black lineola on the median 

 nervure, just before the centre of the wing, above which (the 

 lineola) can be traced the faintest possible outline of the orbicular, 

 and the characteristic small black lunular mark (which seems to 

 be the circumscription of the lower part of the obsolete reniform) 

 stand out conspicuously. A transverse row of minute dots, and 

 a more sharply-defined row is placed just within the pale fringe. 

 Hind wings white, with a slightly shaded base. This description 

 is written from a specimen kindly lent me by Mr. Webb, and 

 figured (not very satisfactorily) Entom. xiii., p. 49, fig. 2 (to the 

 right hand). Mr. Webb writes me with reference to this : — The 

 central specimen is perhaps more worthy of a varietal name than 

 any of the sparganii. It occurs in both sexes, but more 

 commonl}^ in the female. 



y. var. rufescens, mihi. — The ground colour much suffused 

 with reddish ochreous, the characteristic markings generally 

 strongly developed. The red varieties are exceedingly suffused 

 — in some instances — with fuscous scales. Hiibner figures this 

 red form (549), and I have some very strongly-coloured speci- 

 mens from Germany. Mr, Sydney Webb has also sent me a red 

 specimen captured in the south-east of England. 



Nonagria, Och., arundinis, F. 



The type of both sexes in this species is of a pale greyish 

 colour, the males being but very little darker than the females. 



Var. fraterna, Tr. — The anterior wings of this variety are 

 suffused with deep reddish brown or black scales, in some speci- 

 mens to such an extent that the insect is almost black in colour. 

 The hind wings much darker than in the type, especially the 

 females. This is Guenee's var. A, of which he says: — " Superior 

 wings of a deep blackish or reddish brown, which absorbs almost 

 all the markings and nervures ; nervures of hind wings blackish." 

 Under the name of fraterna, Tr., Guenee describes an inter- 

 mediate form hetv^een fraterna and the type. There is no doubt 

 that these are the males and females of the same variety, the 

 extreme dark forms of his var. A being nearly always females, 



