MISCELLANEA RHYNCHOTALIA. 5 



The normal females vary to mucli the same extent as the 

 males in depth of the orange ground colouring. One rather fine 

 aberration emerged on Oct. 12th. having the marginal bands of 

 the primaries very broad, and the apical portion suffused to the 

 discoidal spot, which is abnormally large ; the spots in the 

 borders are all but obliterated ; it is of the same type of variation 

 as the second figure in the second column represented on the 

 coloured plate of C. ednsa aberrations, published in the ' Ento- 

 mologist,' March, 1878, but in my specimen the pattern is sym- 

 metrical, and the black borders of greater width. 



I may add a few words relating to C. ednsa. Of those I cap- 

 tured at Sheerness, Aug. 18th, six were males and one female ; 

 the latter started depositing the next day, and died on the 24th, 

 after depositing about ninety eggs ; these soon hatched, owing to 

 the hot weather, and by the end of September most of the larv£e 

 had pupated ; from these an interesting series of imagines have 

 emerged, showing about equal variation, as in the males and 

 normal females bred from the Jielice ova. One female is an 

 extremely handsome aberration as regards colour, having black 

 secondaries shot with blue-green iridescence, and large light 

 golden-yellow central spots and light golden-yellow primaries, 

 which contrast in rich harmony with the dark secondaries; and 

 the base of the primaries is also much darker than in normal 

 examples. 



November, 1900. 



MISCELLANEA RHYNCHOTALIA. 

 By G. W. Kirkaldy, F.E.S. 



Anisops fieberi, h. v. 



=A. niveus, Fieb. 1851, nee (Fabr.). 



The true nivea, Fabr., is, as I have previously shown (1899, 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. France, p. 105), a small variety of ciliata, Fabr. 

 The type is in the Fabrician Collection of the British Museum, 

 and the species seems to be distributed over Central and Southern 

 Africa, and Asia from Madras to China. The female of fieheri 

 is scarcely distinguishable from that of productus, Fieb., but the 

 male differs by the form of the cephalic projection. In productus 

 this is long and triangular, apically pointed, somewhat roundedly ; 

 \n fieheri it is shorter and distinctly truncate apically. Fieheri is 

 distributed over British India ; Celebes (Breddin, Mus. Halle). 



Anisops breddini, sp. n. 



The species of Anisops are very variable within certain limits, 

 and, as they are nearly always pallid, sordid whitish in colour 



