290 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
‘In 1860 or 1861, T. Porter (still living) brought me two fine 
specimens of a moth I did not know. They were of both sexes. 
I purchased them from him, and sent them on to the Rev. H. 
Burney, who forwarded them to Henry Doubleday. From him 
they went to Guenée, and he returned them with the remark that 
he had a specimen in his collection marked as a variety of 
L. testacea, but he was quite satisfied they represented a good 
species when he saw both sexes. H. Doubleday then named 
them after Guenée, as the latter was evidently the original 
captor. I saw Porter again, and he told me another man, by 
name H. Stephenson, hadone. They took three in all near the 
ferry at Rhyl, North Wales. I sent Porter again, and went 
myself, but we failed to find more afterwards. I bought the 
specimen from Stephenson, and sent it to Miss Sulivan, of 
Fulham, where, I suppose, it remains. I think it was a female.” 
Barrett (Brit. Lep. iv. p. 835), in referring to the three North 
Wales specimens, states that they ‘‘ were raked from overhanging 
edges of sandhills.” 
The foregoing then appears to be all that was definitely known 
of the British history of gueneet up to 1889, in which year Mr. 
Baxter sent me a specimen which, as already adverted to (antea, 
p. 269), I then thought was a link connecting gueneeit with 
nickerlii. It was this specimen, Mr. Baxter informs me, that 
Mr. Tutt described as Luperina testacea var. incerta, and not the 
1891 example. In my remarks on the specimen (Entom. xxii. 
p. 271) the ground colour was noted as being pale grey. Tutt 
(Brit. Noct. 1. p. 140) describes the ground colour of the fore 
wings of incerta as ‘‘ greyish fuscous, with a slight ochreous 
tinge.” At the present time the 1889 and the 1891 specimens 
are both distinctly tinged with ochreous. These two specimens, 
however, are referable to LL. gueneet, Doubleday,* a female 
type of which is in the National Collection at South Kensing- 
ton. I may add that Sir George Hampson concurs in this 
identification. The specimens obtained this year are of a 
rather different form ; therefore, as it is largely due to Mr. 
Baxter’s patient investigation that the Luperina muddle of 
twenty years’ standing has been cleared up, I propose that this 
form be known as :— 
Var. baxteri (Pl. VII., figs. 3 g, 4 ?).— Ground colour paler, 
and without the ochreous tinge of gueneev. The black edging of 
the whitish transverse lines varies in intensity, but in two of the 
six specimens this is inconspicuous ; the reniform stigma is more 
or less outlined in white, but this character is less evident than in 
** This was from the Burney collection; a co-type was acquired by the 
late Mr. P. B. Mason from the same collection, and this subsequently passed 
into the possession of Mr. E. R. Bankes when Mason’s collection was dis- 
persed in 1905. 
