slender partial transverse line, dotted with black on the 

 nervures ; along the hind margin a smoky-brown cloud ; 

 cilia dusky-white, clouded with smoky-brown. Body and 

 leg-tufts pale purplish-brown ; legs dark brown, barred with 

 white ; anal tuft tinged with reddish-brown. 



A constantly recurrent and reliable variety known as var. 

 remissa has the thorax paler brown on the top, but the collar 

 and shoulder-lappets blackened, the bar in front of the collar 

 black ; the two stigmata whitish-grey, and the dorsal margin 

 broadly of the same colour ; the broad space between the 

 second and the subterminal lines also whitish-grey, brownish- 

 grey, or very pale silvery-grey, forming a pale band. In 

 some examples the base of the costa is also clouded with pale 

 grey down to the black central streak ; but the central space 

 around the stigmata and the greater portion of the basal and 

 hind marginal areas remain of the usual brown-black or 

 purple-browD, so that this variety has a very striking and 

 distinct appearance, and is constantly taken for a difterent 

 species by inexperienced collectors, or especially mistaken for 

 Hadena genistce, to which species it bears a wonderful resem- 

 blance. It varies in shade of colour, and all intermediate 

 gradations between it and the type are met with, though 

 rarely ; while in northern and western districts its pecu- 

 liarities are intensified, as for instance in South Wales, 

 where this variety becomes a very handsome and striking 

 insect. A very old specimen of this form, originally from 

 the collection of Mr. A, Haworth, now in that of Mr. S. 

 Stevens, has a broad distinct stripe of pale ochreous down 

 the median nervure, completely dividing the central dark 

 colouring, and giving the insect a very different appearance. 

 Upon its pin is Haworth's label, ^' oUonga." Another in the 

 same collection is of an almost unicolorous grey-brown. In 

 Mr. Sydney Webb's is a complete range of forms from 

 typical to the extreme of the var. remissa. Mr. Kane has 

 met with a curious variety near Cork — smaller, dark grey, 

 but the markings all traceable ; while at Portlaw, Waterford, 

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