50 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



DESCEIPTION OF AN ABEERANT SMERINTHUS TILIM. 

 By Chakles Eothschild. 



This specimen was bred in June, 1893, from a larva found at 

 Tring, Herts, September, 1892. It chiefly differs from the typical 

 form of the species by the entire obliteration of the central 

 markmgs in the fore wings on the one side, while on the other 

 they are only represented by a very small blackish green spot at 

 the end of the cell. The basal part of the fore wings is pinkish 

 grey, while the apical portion is of a dark green ; the marking 

 at the apex of the costa is of the normal shape and colour. The 

 hind wings are almost entirely black, very faintly tinged with buff 

 on the nervules. On the under side the usual streaks are some- 

 what indistinct. The example is a male, and expands 2'35 

 inches. 



Tring Park, Tring, Herts. 



HYP EN A DAMNOSALIS, Walk. 

 By a. G. Butler, Ph.D. 



Pkofessor Smith may rest assured that my identification of 

 Walker's type is correct ; the species is too well marked for any 

 one having type and description before him to make a mistake. 



Since the Professor has gone so far as to thank me for calling 

 attention to the above point, I am encouraged to mention another 

 mistake, perhaps due to the fact that Walker's type is an unset 

 and not very fine example, viz. : Hypena idcBiisalis, Walk., is 

 certainly not Grote's H. citata, nor is it like it ; in fact, it is not 

 even a Hypena. Bomolocha citata, Grote, is :=exoletalis, Guen. 



However certain I may be of the correctness of my determi- 

 nations, the many doubts which Professor Smith has recently 

 expressed respecting them have made me careful to ask the 

 opinion of other qualified entomologists before publishing them ; 

 so that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word 

 may be established. 



