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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The bulk of the specimens reared were wasted in further 

 experiments with practically no result. In one case Ithysia, 

 hybrid harr'isoni <? x Ijycia hirtaria 2 , two ova proved fertile, 

 and of these one hatched and may feed up. For convenience I 

 call this hybrid larva hybrid goochvini. 



I have not attempted to repeat Mera's experiments with 

 Ithysia zonaria $ X Pcecilopsis lav})onaria ? (= hybrid merana, 

 Burrows), but have reared several very large liroods of the 

 hirtaria-pomonaria hybrids. These are: — 



Lycia, hybrid pilzii (Standfuss) = L. hirtaria <? X Pcecilopsis 



pomonaria ? . 

 Pcecilopsis, hybrid hunii (Oberthiir) = P. pomonaria ^ x 



Lycia hirtaria 2 . 



I have found it so very difficult to obtain the former cross 

 that I have often thought that the original specimen taken wild 

 by Pilz might have been a specimen of the latter hybrid. 



NOTES ON THE VARIETIES OF PERONEA CRIS- 

 TANA LATELY IN THE COLLECTION OF THE 

 LATE MR. J. A. CLARK. 



By Sydney Webb. 



Capucina Group. 



The variety which gives its name to this group of pale 

 coloured forms P. cristana was captured by the late Rev. Mr. 

 Johnson, and described by him in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1842, 

 three years before Desvignes discovered the far commoner sul- 

 capucina. Both are well known to collectors, and it is therefore 

 unnecessary to go into further details concerning these two 

 aberrations. 



Curtisana, Desv. — The very rare examples that have stood so 

 long in our cabinets under this name are similar to siihcajmcina, 

 but the vitta is very pale yellow. Desvignes gave the name, it 

 would appear, to a variety wdth a faint fulvous streak from the 

 base to the button, which is of the same colour. He does not 

 mention the vitta, but inasmuch as he speaks of the moth as 

 similar to the last {suhcapucina), we may i3resume it to be pure 

 white.-^' I know of no specimen that answers his description, and 

 evidently our old collectors thought there was an error in de- 

 scription, or they would not one and all* have adopted the 

 mistake, particularly as each one prided himself on his accuracy 

 of nomenclature. The curtisana recently sold (Clark sale 3, 

 lot 327) was tolana, of which Desvignes writes : " Between 

 curtisana and desfontainiana." 



"■' S. Stevens, Shepherd, Barney, Mason, Vaughan. 



