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describes as follows : — " Similarly (to var. fnbolus) of a greyish black. All 

 the markings clearly written. Inferior wings with the outer margin 

 more deeply marked, and a more distinct lunule" (' Noctuelles,' vol. v., 

 p. 194). Guenee treats this only as a North American variety, giving the 

 State of New York and Canada as localities. I have specimens of this form 

 only from Greenwich and the neighbourhood of Cliffe (Kent) ; but although 

 those from the latter locality are well marked, they scarcely appear so, 

 owing to the intense depth of the ground colour. 



^. var. fribolus, Bdv. — This is the nigricans of Freyer. Guenee's 

 description is : — " Superior wings of a deep greyish black." Same localities 

 as type. I would include all unicolorous, greyish black forms under this 

 name. I have specimens from Shoeburyness, Deal, near Clitfe, and Fleet- 

 wood. There appears to be no doubt that the steel-grey Lancashire 

 specimens must be included under this varietal name. 



(To be continued.) 



ZYGMNA PILOSELLM IN WALES. 

 By Charles Oldham. 



In the second week of June, when visiting the locality where 

 I took this species in 1887, as recorded by Mr. Samuels in the 

 * Entomologist ' for August of that year, I found it on the sunny 

 slopes above the cliffs by hundreds, flying just above the ground 

 in the bright sunshine in its characteristic fashion, and frequently 

 settling on the grass blades. So plentiful was it that a friend and 

 I were able to capture about fifty specimens in a few minutes, 

 without a net, merely picking them from the grass with our 

 hands. The insects were, however, limited to certain patches of 

 cliff, perhaps not twenty yards in length, where they swarmed ; 

 and between these favoured spots you might walk for several 

 hundred yards without seeing a single moth. This restriction 

 appeared to have no relafion to the distribution of the food-plant 

 (bird's-foot trefoil), which was in flower everywhere. 



The insects belong to the hairy-bodied variety nuhigena (Led.), 

 which Kirby says (' European Butterflies and Moths ') " is the 

 ordinary ininos of British collectors," and they are identical with 

 examples I have from an Irish locality. 



Ashton-on-Mersey, July 12, 1889. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTUEES, &c. 



EucHLOE CAEDAMiNES, DWARF FORM. — On May 22nd last, whilst insect- 

 hunting in Eppiug Forest, I took a very small male of this species hovering 

 over the flowers of the wood parsley (Aiitkrlscus sylvestris). The insect is 

 barely 1^ inch in expanse. — Jambs A. SrMES ; 4, Cricketfield Road, 

 Clapton, July 17, 1889. 



