133 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Ebidea verbascalis, netted, 3i(l Aug. uncommon on fences in Alton 



E. sambucalis, 23nd June, at rest Lane. 



on a fence. Paidisca hUnnnna, Qth J iuk, common 



Scopula fenugalis, 31st August, at on birch trunks. P. solandiianu, 



rest, Putney Hill. an interesting series bred from 



Cramhus pinellus, 9th August, rather larvae found between leavesof birch. 



common. Semasia wceberiana, 1st July, on a 



Dichelia ijrotiana, 23rd July. fence at Putney. 



Leptograiiiinaliterana, 22nd August, Coccyx arrjijrana, 8th June, oak 



a single example on an oak trunk. trunks in Richmond Park. 



Peronea variegana, 25th July, com- Stig)nonota jjcdepulana, 7th May. 



mon. S. regiana, 11th July, on a fence 



Pentlilna pruniana, 25th June. at Putney. 



Antithesia salicella, 2nd July, on a Pijrodes rheediella,\)esXex^,\\i\\M.ay. 



fence in Alton Lane. Catoptria cdbersana, 27th May. 



Aspis udnuinniana, 23rd June, Dasgstoma salicella, 29th March. 



among bramble. MicrojJteryx subparjnirella, 20th 



Sideria ackatana, 22nd July. May. 



Phtheocroa rugosaiia, 15th May, Adela cupreUa, 23rd April, flying 



among bryony in Stag Lane. over sallows. 



GrapholUha subocellana, 30lh May, Harpljiteryx xylostella, 1st August. 



(j . viinutana, 15th July, not Dasycera oUvierella, 18th July. 



2, Cambridge Terrace, Lupus Street, S.W., 1889. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS A LIST OF THE VARIETIES 

 OF NOCTU^ OCCURRING IN THE BRITISH ISLANDS. 



By J. W. TuTT, F.E.S. 



(Continued from p. 138.) 



Charceas, St., gnuninis, L. 

 The type of this species is described by Linnaeus in his 

 • Systema Naturie ' (10th edition), p. 506, No. 50, as, " Bombyx 

 spirilinguis alis depressis griseis : linea ramosa lunulaque 

 glaucis." It is a most variable species, not only in ground 

 colour, which varies from a dull grey through different shades of 

 brown to a ferruginous red, but in the character and quantity of 

 the pale markings. The type has the branched central line and 

 reniform glaucous; most British specimens have them white; 

 whilst others have only the forked end of the central line and 

 reniform white, the base of the line and branches being almost 

 of the ground colour, whilst, on the other hand, I have specimens 

 in which the white median nervure develops into a broad band, 

 with many branches, running longitudinally through the centre 

 of the wing from the base to beyond the reniform. As in all this 

 family, there is great variation in the size and shape of the 

 stigmata, and the females are, as a rule, much larger, and less 

 liable to variation than the males. Mr. Porritt writes me that 



