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Moths,' p. 280, and some remarks of Newman on this variety 

 are on the following page of the same work. Guenee says of it : — • 

 " Does not differ from ordinary specimens, except that the 

 reniform is reddish instead of white " (' Noctuelles,' vol. v., p. 126). 

 The specimen from which fig. 10 was taken was captured at Deal. 



y. var. auricula, Haw.— Also treated by Haworth as a distinct 

 species. His description (* Lepidoptera Britannica,' p. 240) is as 

 follows : — " Alis fusco-ferrugineis obsolete auratis fusco strigatis, 

 stigmate reniformi albo-aureo." Haworth undoubtedly treated 

 this as distinct, because of the golden colour of the reniform. 

 He says, " From its reniform stigma being of the colour of pure 

 gold, it has obtained appropriately enough, the appellation of the 

 ' golden ear.' " This variety is intermediate between the type 

 with white, and var. erythrostigma with red, reniform stigma. The 

 specimen from which this variety, fig. 11, was taken, was captured 

 at Deal. 



^. var. ohsciira, mihi. — The ground colour of a very dark 

 (inclining to blackish) brown colour, with very little trace of the 

 ferruginous colour of the type ; the reniform stigma is white as 

 in the type. I have never seen the orange or red reniform in this 

 variety. Hind wings darker than in the type, fringes paler. This 

 melanic form occurs but rarely. I have only taken it occasionally 

 at Deal. This variety is figured, Plate I., fig. 12, from a specimen 

 captured at Deal. 



E. var. iiallida, mihi. — The ground colour of the anterior 

 wings of a pale yellowish or greyish red colour. All the lines 

 and markings very distinct. Both stigmata are generally yel- 

 lowish, but sometimes the reniform is whitish, sometimes orange. 

 The posterior wings paler than in the type. Guenee's var. B., 

 ' Noctuelles,' vol. v., p. 126, would appear to be this variety. His 

 description is, "Anterior wings a little more pointed at the apex, 

 of a very pale, rosy, yellowish colour, which makes the lines 

 more distinct. Locality, North America." The specimen from 

 Vvdiich this variety was figured (fig. 8) was captured at Deal. 



C var. lucens, Frr. — Lucens is treated as a distinct species by 

 Freyer and Herrich-Schteffer, but treated as a variety oi nictitans 

 by Guenee. In this he is followed by Newman (Newman's 

 ' British Moths,' p. 281), and Staudinger, in his ' Catalogue,' 

 adopts the same view. Dr. Staudinger says of it (comparing it 

 with nictitans), " major, mac. renif. alba aut rufa." There i no 



