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the expanse of the fore wings, which, as well as the hind wings 

 and body, are entirely of a pale whitish colour ; the costa of the 

 fore wings slightly brownish, &c. Named by Mr. Dale after the 

 Eev. F. 0. Morris, who discovered it. It has been taken several 

 times on the East Sea Cliff, Charmouth, Dorset, at the beginning 

 of July. We are indebted to Beverley E. Morris, Esq., for the 

 loan of two specimens differing somewhat in size' ('British 

 Moths,' p. 243, pi. liv. fig. 12). The probability of this being 

 identical with hond'ii, on an examination of Humphrey and 

 Westwood's figure, the hind wings of which are strikingly those 

 of hondii, was immediately strengthened by the knowledge that 

 Mr. Tugwell had previously recorded hondii from Lyme Eegis, a 

 few miles from Charmouth, where the typical specimens of 

 morrisii were captured by Mr. Morris. I wrote to Mr. Tugwell, 

 asking him about the probability of hondii occurring at Char- 

 mouth, and he wrote : ' The locality for hondii at Lyme Eegis is, 

 I believe, about ten miles as the crow flies from Charmouth ; but 

 from what I saw of the coast-line, I should judge that hondii 

 might occur in many places between the two towns. I only 

 worked the Devonshire side of Lyme Eegis, but found it in 

 plenty there' {in litt. 18/7/92). This, therefore, helps to support 

 my determination of Humphrey and Westwood's figure, and 

 morrisii will have to be struck out as a variety of arcuosa and 

 added as a synonym of hondii, which name, indeed, it will 

 replace if extrcnvi be not generally accepted for this species, as 

 morrisii is much anterior to hondii. There can be no doubt 

 that Humphrey and Westwood's figure is made from indubitable 

 morrisii, for the specimens were sent by Mr. Beverley Morris 

 from the collection of the Eev. F. 0. Morris, the original captor. 

 It has always appeared strange to me that so common a species 

 as hondii has since proved itself to be in its favoured localities 

 should have been quite unknown to our older collectors who met 

 with many of our rarer species. 



" With regard to the occurrence of hondii in the neighbour- 

 hood where the original morrisii came from, Mr. Goss writes : 

 ' Although probably most lepidopterists are aware that T. hotidii 

 is to be found in the neighbourhood of Lyme Eegis, I do not 

 think the occurrence of this species in Devonshire has been 

 noticed in this magazine. As the species is so extremely local, 

 not only in this country but on the Continent of Europe, it may 

 be as well to record the fact of my finding it in abundance, in the 

 beginning of July last, on the rough broken ground forming the 

 slopes of the cliff" immediately to the west of the cement-works at 

 Lyme Eegis, well into Devonshire. It may be worth noting that 

 of the two localities in this country from which this species has 

 yet been obtained, one is in the south-east of Devon, and the other 

 m the south-east of Kent ' (Ent. Mo. Mag. xvii. p. 134) ; whilst 

 the editors of the Ent. Mo. Mag. note at the same time that the 



