THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XXXII.l 



OCTOBER, 1899. 



[No. 437 



TEPHROSIA BIUNDULARIA, ab. 



The above illustration represents a very striking aberration 

 of Tephrosia biundularia. Mr. William M. Christy, of Watergate, 

 Ernsworth, who obtained the specimen, has been good enough to 

 lend the insect for figuring. He writes : — " It was taken in the 

 moth-trap, which is placed in the woods here, sometime between 

 the 1st and 23rd of June, 1891." As the figure gives an excellent 

 idea of the markings of the specimen, it seems only necessary to 

 add that the colour is pale ochreous brown, with a whitish ante- 

 medial band on the fore wings ; the basal third of the hind wings 

 is also whitish. The post-medial black line on both wings is 

 unusually well defined, and is shaded with a darker tint of the 

 ground-colour. 



ENTOil. — OCTOBER, 1899. 



