52 THE ENTOMOLOGIST, 



SUPPLEMENTAL NOTES ON EUPITHECIA. 

 By Louis B. Prout, F.E.S. 



I DO not propose, on the present occasion, to enter upon a 

 discussion of any fresh questions, but merely to make some 

 additions which have been placed at my disposal by some kind 

 correspondents, at the same time thanking all those who have 

 been good enough to intimate their appreciation of my previous 

 articles (Entom. xl. 169, 206, 220), and expressing anew the 

 hope that an increasing number of workers will devote themselves 

 to the study of the genus. 



I exceedingly regret that two inexcusable blunders found 

 their way into my introduction, which was prepared in a some- 

 what more hasty and perfunctory way than the rest of the notes, 

 the fact being that I was rather tired of the warfare against 

 " Tephroclystia," yet felt that I must not miss so good an oppor- 

 tunity for a final onslaught. Of course, on p. 169, second para- 

 graph, I ought to have written Tephrochjstia, not Teplirodystis, 

 the former being Hiibner's spelling, the latter Meyrick's (copied 

 by Hulst), and due merely to an inadvertence, probably origi- 

 nating in the instinct to make the name " homoeoteleutan " with 

 Chlorocli/stis, Hb. In the same paragraph I wrote, by a lapsus 

 mcmori(B, " Eupithecia (with type linariata) " ; whereas, as I 

 perfectly well knew, Curtis chose ahsinthiata, CI., as the type of 

 his genus, though he figured, and drew his structural details 

 from, linariata. The eagle eye of my valued friend and co- 

 worker, Kev. G. W. Taylor, at once detected these errors, he 

 having had correspondence with me earlier on the self-same 

 points. 



Kegarding the Phyteuma larvae of Eupithecia denotata ^ cam- 

 panulata, mentioned on p. 209 (middle paragraphs). Dr. Draudt 

 writes me that the imagines obtained from them show no differ- 

 ence from other denotata bred from Campanula. 



I learn from Mr. Eustace E. Bankes that he has already 

 interested himself in the curious record of E.fraxbiata larvte on 

 " scabious " at Hartlepool (vide p. 208), and he has kindly given 

 me free permission to use the corresj)ondence which he had with 

 Messrs. Piobson and Gardner on the subject. Barrett's record, 

 as Mr. Bankes points out, is based on a fuller one in Kobson's 

 " Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Northumberland, Durham, 

 and Newcastle-upon-Tyne " (Nat. Hist. Trans. North., Durh., x. 

 1902), which reads as follows (p. 267) : — 



"In August, 1899, I took some 'pug' larva? on the sand- 

 banks between Black Hall Bocks and Castle Eden, which pro- 

 duced three melanic imagines, for which the same name" [imio- 

 tata] " is suggested. I made no notes of the larva, thinking 

 them some common species, and writing now from memory' I 



