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persuasion. But Herr Schmidt gives one good difference, 

 which is, that the underside of the true neurica has no mark- 

 ings, while that oiarundlneta possesses a lunule near the centre 

 of each of the four wings. He further remarks, that their 

 respective larvae and pupa2 differ, and that each of the two 

 species frequents a different kind of locahty. Herr S. places 

 arundineta between Hessii and neurica^ and as the two 

 latter are at present considered in this country as mere 

 variations the connection between the three must be very 

 close indeed. Dr. Staudinger places neur-ica, Hiib., between 

 gemiriipunctaf Hatchet, and arundineti {ta), Schmidt. 



An Apamea n. sp. ? seu A. oculea, var. ? 



A very diisimci-looking Noctua has been secured by 

 Mr. Buekton at Torquay during the past season ; this spe- 

 cimen for a time much puzzled Mr. Henry Doubleday, to 

 whom it had been entrusted for the purpose of identification, 

 but, as on very careful examination the form, position of the 

 lines, &:c. agree with some variations of Apamea ocidea, he 

 thinks with me it is possibly only an extraordinary variety 

 of this species, an opinion also entertained by M. Guenee, 

 who has seen a photograph of the specimen. The example 

 in question has a most singular appearance ; the ground 

 colour is white, the basal patch, central fascia, and that part 

 of the wing towards the hind margin, brown, the whitish 

 renal stigma showing up conspicuously in the central fascia. 



COREMIA FERKUQATA and C. UNIDENTARIA. 



Touching the specific distinctness of these two forms, 

 Mr. D'Orville (Ent. Mo. Mag. vol. i. p. 92) gives a good 

 reason for believing Coremia unidenfaria to be distinct from 

 C.ferrugata: namely, that each produces its like, a fact 

 which receives corroboration from the experience of several 



