THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XXX.] 



FEBRUARY, 1897. 



[No. 405. 



VARIETIES OF ABRAXAS GROSSULARIATA. 



The two specimens of Abraxas grossulariata figured above 

 represent the most suffused examples bred by Mr. H. McArthur 

 from about three thousand larvee collected in the neighbourhood 

 of Fnlham last spring, from garden euonymus {Euomjmus ja- 

 poniciis), and fed up on the same plant. The majority of the 

 imagines were rather undersized, measuring only about 1^ in. 

 in expanse; but some few were fully up to If in. across the 

 wings, and were of the most ordinary forms, with the exception 

 of about thirty specimens. The prevailing form of variation in 

 these was the increase of the dark markings, more particularly 

 of the basal two-thirds of the fore wings; but two examples, 

 although by no means strongly marked, convey the impression 

 of the whole of the wings being in "water-mark," giving the 

 insects a very remarkable appearance. 



EoBT. Adkin. 

 Lewisham, January, 1897. 



ENTOM. FEB. 1897. 



