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above, the leucophaa of Guenee. Under this name I would include all 

 specimens speckled with ochreous. 



/3. var. ruv'ula, Esp. — Esper (vol. iv., pi. 145, fig. 1) figures another 

 variety of IcucophcBa under this name. The description I have made is as 

 follows: — "Female. Anterior wings grey, with a slaty shade along the 

 costa, in which are four short black costal streaks : there are two l)lack 

 transverse basal streaks; the claviforra brown, edged with black; reniform 

 and orbicular slaty, outlined in pale. Directly beyond reniform is a white 

 transverse wavy line, edged internally with black ; all the wing, between 

 this transverse line and the base, tinged with reddish brown, except 

 tlie costa and inner margin, which are of a slaty colour ; a wavy W line 

 parallel to the hind margin, pale, but internally edged with black. The 

 space outside this waved line, and between it and the hind margin, deep 

 reddish brown. Hind wings dark grey, central area paler, which contains 

 a dark lunule, paler; immediately beyond the lunule is a dark transverse 

 line, extreme hind margin paler." Gueuee, in his ' Noctuelles,' vol. v., 

 p. 178, writes of this variety, " all the median space reddish, lines and 

 stigmata well marked. Between the lunule and the subterminal shade of 

 the inferior wings is a median line. Locality, Bavaria." 



y. var. bombijciiia, Ev. — Staudinger mentions in his ' Catalogue ' a 

 variety under this name, whicli is there described as " minor." I know 

 nothing of it. 



(To be continued.) 



ENTOMOLOGY OF ICELAND. 

 By Rkv. F. a. AValker, D.D., F.L.S., &g. 



Having been unable to discover any notice of the Entomolo- 

 gical fauna of Iceland in any volume of the ' Entomologist' since 

 its commencement, I judged that a brief resume of the very 

 imperfect knowledge that we possess on this particular subject 

 might be acceptable to its readers. 



I have studied the works on Iceland of several travellers, and 

 also corresponded with others who have paid a visit there, with 

 the view of definitely ascertaining the existence of butterflies. 

 The preponderance of evidence obtained after a great deal of 

 trouble on my part was in favour of their existence, though no 

 particular species could be certainly ascertained. I may add that 

 their occurrence in that Arctic region has been the subject 

 of dispute; and that Staudinger, who visited the island more than 

 thirty years since in 185G, has furnished a list of 33 species 

 of moths, and of 81 beetles, 114 kinds in all, in the 'Proceedings 

 of the Entomological Society of Stettin,' but mentioning' no 

 butterflies whatever. 



The catalogue contained in the Appendix to the work on 

 Iceland, by Paijkull, a Swede, is less satisfactory than that of 

 Staudinger, as containing even fewer species, and also record- 

 ing no butterflies, though including some Ilymenoptera and 



