LUPERINA GUENEEI VAR. BAXTERI. 291 
L. nickerlii. The fringes are pale, chequered with dark grey, their 
tips sometimes dotted with blackish. In two females a blackish bar 
extends from the claviform stigma to the post-medial line, and in 
these specimens the area beyond the white submarginal line is pale, 
almost whitish. White dots on the costa between the post-medial 
line and the apex are present in some of the specimens. Expanse, 
3S 32-34 millim.; ? 36-38 millim. 
The following is an abstract from Mr. Baxter’s note sent with 
the insects referred to above :— 
“In 1891 I captured a second specimen of the Luperina 
thought to be a form of nickerlii, but from that time until the 
present year I had not been lucky enough to see any others. 
This was chiefly, perhaps, because I had not been working in the 
right kind of place. ‘This year a friend of mine and brother 
collector, Mr. W. Yates, while out with me one evening, came 
across a Luperina which, on his showing it to me, I at once recog- 
nized to be the same species as my two previous captures. Since 
then I have taken six, and I believe Mr. Yates has taken five or 
six more. Some entomologists who saw the first specimen seemed 
to think that it was an immigrant, but this year’s experience 
completely disposes of this, as I found one evidently just 
emerged, as it had a small piece of the pupa-case adhering to 
it, and on another occasion I found one drying its wings. Mr. 
Yates also found one drying its wings. I also found a crippled 
female which was certainly incapable of flying from the Conti- 
nent; all which conclusively proves, I think, that the insect is 
British. The moths were not found all on one spot, but nearly 
two miles apart. 
** All that Mr. Yates and I have found are similar in character 
to the 1889 one, and although they vary slightly in the depth of 
colouring, all are bright silvery grey, with very little trace of 
ochreous, except one, a rather worn male, which I have sent to 
Mr. Pierce, of Liverpool, who has kindly undertaken to examine 
the genitalia; this one was slightly more ochreous than any of 
the others. At the first glance the specimen might almost be 
taken for the light grey form of Agrotis ripe. This Luperina is 
decidedly a coast insect, and I have only seen one L. testacea 
where it is found.”—T. Baxter; Min-y-don, St. Anne’s-on-the- 
Sea, Lanes. 
In addition to the ochreous specimen mentioned in his note, 
Mr. Baxter forwarded a second example to Mr. Pierce, whose 
report thereon is appended :— 
‘‘] have examined nine specimens of Luperina testacea, all of 
which are exactly similar, and two specimens of a new species 
which agree inter se, but differ from testacea in five very distinct 
points as follows :— 
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