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two transverse basal lines stand out distinctly in the clear ground colour ; 

 stigmata clear yellow ; a broad shade of the same colour from near the apex 

 to the inner margin ; the central area above, below and around the stigmata 

 grey with a greenish tinge, the outer margin of wing also greenish grey 

 with a fine wavy line passing through it parallel to hind margin. Hind 

 wings very dark grey, base paler." 



Luperina, Bdv., dumerilii, Dup. 



Of this very distinct Luperina six specimens are supposed to 

 have been captured in Britain ; see ' Entomologist,' vol. xviii., 

 pp. 73, 74, and Newman's 'British Moths,'* pp. 296, 297. I have 

 seen none of the British specimens, but amongst the conti- 

 nental ones I have looked through there appears to be a great 

 deal of difference in the intensity of the markings. The type 

 has distinct markings and pale stigmata, both males and females, 

 but the females are rather darker than the males. Some speci- 

 mens are, however, almost unicolorous, although the markings are 

 traceable. Dr. Staudinger treats these dark specimens as 

 Boisduval's desyllesi. The following note I made some time ago 

 of the specimens in the continental Doubleday collection at the 

 Bethnal Green Museum : — " Dumerilii is very distinct from any 

 other species. The females are darker than the males ; the males 

 have whitish stigmata, and so has one female ; the other two 

 females are more unicolorous, and have the stigmata indistinct." 



Var. desyllesi, Bdv. — This is treated by Guenee as a distinct species, 

 but Dr. Staudinger treats it as a var. of dumerilii, a view I believe now 

 accepted by most continental Lepidopterists. Staudinger says of it, 

 " Al. ant. fere unicolor." Guenee, in his ' Noctuelles,' vol. v., p. 183, 

 gives a very complete description. He writes : — " Superior wings of a 

 grey-brown, with the two median lines slender, blackish, margined exteriorly 

 with a fine yellowish line. No claviform stigma (at least in the one I 

 describe from). Ordinary stigmata distinct, of a yellowish white, with a 

 grey-brown centre. Suhterminal line of a yellowish white, straight, but 

 continued so as to touch the two edges of the wing. Terminal space not 

 much darker than the ground colour. Inferior wings white in both sexes, 

 with a greyish margin ; all four wings white beneath, with an angulated 

 grey line near the outer margin." Guenee mentions, too, only " two 

 examples." 



(To be continued.) 



SPRING BUTTERFLIES AT HYERES. 



By Frank B. Norris. 



A SHORT list of butterfly captures this spring may prove of 

 interest to some of your readers. The lovely scenery about 

 Hyeres and its islands is well known, and contributes not a little 

 to the charm of collecting in these favoured parts ; whilst the 



* This latter lecoid is not quite correct in its particulars ; vide Entom. xviii., 

 p. 74. 



