THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Vol. X.] JANUAKY, 1877. [No. 164. 



VARIETY OF SATURNIA CARPINI. 

 By Frederick Bond, F.Z.S. 



Satuenia Caepini (yaeiety). 



The fine and perhaps unique variety, now figured, of this 

 beautiful species, was bred by Mr. F. Barlow, of Cambridge, 

 from a larva found with many others feeding upon sallow on 

 Sawston Fen, Cambridgeshire. In the colour and markings of 

 the specimen there is perhaps nothing worth notice, excepting 

 the absence of the ocellus in each wing, and also of one of 

 the veins in each of the anterior wings. This gives the moth 

 a very remarkable appearance. I was with Mr. Barlow when 

 the larvae were collected — about fifty in number — and had 

 half of them. I bred from one of them a very curious speci- 

 men, a female, which was quite destitute of scales, in fact 

 diaphanous and without markings, though perfect in other 

 respects, and large in size. I gave this specimen to the late 

 Mr. J. F. Stephens, and it is now in the British Museum, in 

 what he called his "metamorphotic cabinet." The rest of the 

 specimens bred were exceedingly fine. I have seven speci- 

 mens of the brood now in ray collection, the largest of which 



