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smoky, with a darkish costal margin continued darkish round 

 the ciHa ; and one dark smoky well-marked female, having a 

 dark brown costa and cilia : this is perhaps the most striking 

 aberration imaginable, and one which, seen by itself, would 

 severely test the discriminative powers of our best aberra- 

 tionists, but, placed as it is in my long series of variously 

 marked and coloured specimens, some of which lead gra- 

 dually up or down to it, there is no difficulty in assigning it 

 a place and a name. 



Liparis Monacha. Of this variable species little need be 

 said, further than that I possess it from very light to almost 

 suffused black. 



L. dispar. I have one small male, bred, with shoulders 

 light brown, outwards of that and under wings very light 

 stone-colour ; and two large bred males, from the same 

 brood, unicolorous dark brown upon all the wings ; the 

 lunate discal marks are small, but distinct, upon the superior 

 wings. 



L. auriflua. I possess one male having a basal dark 

 blotch, also one apical, one central, and one large anal 

 blotch : this is the only specimen that 1 ever saw of this 

 species worthy to be called a variety. 



Passing over a number of permanent and variable species, 

 I now come to Odonestis potatoria, of Vvhich 1 possess one 

 large female having the head and front of thorax dark black- 

 brown, and the whole insect rich brown-ochre ; one female is 

 light yellow within the oblique apical streak, but outside that 

 it is rich brown-ochre continued through the under wings ; 

 three females, light whitish buff, from Whittlesea Mere : this 

 is the Whittlesea Mere variety. 



Bombyx Trifolii. I have two females of a rich deep red- 

 brown, and having the usual curved marking almost ob- 

 literated. 



B. Quercus. I have one male, expanding about one inch 

 and six lines, of a light buff-brown, with distinct shoulder- 

 inarks ; two large bright light-red males ; one small dark 

 male, expanding an inch and three-quarters, without any 

 shoulder-mark; one male in dark female colouring; one dark 

 male, entirely wantii>g the usual curved markings through 

 the wings ; one fine male having only a faint indication of 

 marking upon the under wing ; one fine female hke it ; one 



