NOTES OX NEW AND RARE BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. Ill 



CUcierocamiia elj)enor of a smoky-brown colour with a toler- 

 able-sized hyaline patch in the middle of each fore-wing, 

 altogether giving one the idea of a hybrid between that species 

 and 3Iacroglossafudformis ! 



Of monstrosities the most striking has been the imago of 

 Vanessa Atalanta bearing the larval head. 



Lastly, before proceeding to the novelties it is necessary to 

 draw attention to two Scotch forms which have lately attracted 

 some notice. The one is undoubtedly a dark race of Thera 

 jujiijierataf with which most of our readers are, doubtless, by 

 this time acquainted j the other requires a separate para- 

 graph. 



Re Scotch var. of Agrotis comes, Hilb. (Triph^na 

 ORBONA of our old lists). 



Through the liberality of Mr. Geo. Norman, of Forres, 

 this handsome form has been reared from the egg in some 

 numbers during the past season. In a long series bred by 

 Mr. Henry Bartlett, from eggs received by Mr. Howard 

 Yaughan, an amount of variation, ranging from the typical 

 comes to the consequa of Curtis, is observable ; and this, 

 taken in connection with the fact that no appreciable diffe- 

 rence is to be detected in the larval state, should surely de- 

 cide the matter of their identitv. 



NEW BRITISH SPECIES IN 1871. 



The following, including a Sphinx, a Bombyx, two 

 Noctuas, a stout-bodied Geometer, a Crambus, a PempeHa, 

 and two Tortrices, comprise our list of novelties: — 



1. Zygcena exulans, Hochenwarth (Ent. Mo. Mag. 

 viii., p. 68). 



