THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XXVII.] 



JULY, 1894. 



[No. 874. 



FURTHEK NOTES ON CERTAIN VARIETIES OF 

 SPILOSOMA L UBBICIPEDA . 



By W. H. Tugwell. 



Fis;. 1. 8. menthastri var. lualkeri, Curt. Fig. 2. S. luh-icijjeda var. 

 eboraci, Tugwell. Fig. 3. S. hihricipeda var. zatima, Cram. (= radiafa, 

 Haw.). Fig. 4. 8. luhricipeda var. fasciata, Tugwell. 



In my former notes on this subject {(mte, pp. 95-97 and 

 129-30) I mentioned that I was much interested in a cross brood 

 between a female of my var. /asctato (fig. 4) and a male of the 

 var. radiata {= zatima) (fig. 3) that Mr. Porritt and I had then in 

 pupa ; this cross being just the reverse to that effected by Mr. 

 Harrison, who in his first brood in 1891-2 crossed a bred female 

 radiata with a strongly-marked northern (i. e., Yorkshire or 

 Lincolnshire) male. It will be recollected that from this pairing 

 in 1891 Mr. Harrison bred a varied brood showing evidences of 

 both parents, and exhibiting the gradations between true radiata 



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