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Nonagria fnlva. This species varies here from light cine- 

 reous-gray or pale drab to rich fulvous reddish brown. 



Goityna flavago. One specimen 1 possess expands only 

 three-fourths of an inch. I have two immense females, the 

 whole of the extra size of which seems to be added outside 

 the central fascia, thus making the outer margin nearly one- 

 fourth of an inch wide, of a rich brown-purple. These fine 

 specimens were bred from the pith of the elder, from which 

 I cut them when just making up : they proved one of my 

 entomological disappointments, as I made sure I had a new 

 species when I saw the tops of the year's shoots drooping 

 from the effects of a larva feeding therein. 



Hydroecia nictitans. Upon the wet parts of our mosses, 

 where this species is abundant, it rarely varies, but on our 

 drier heaths it grows larger, but rarely has the stigmata light- 

 coloured ; and the specimens vary much, from dirty reddish 

 drab to rich reddish brown, the stigmata being often per- 

 ceptible as lighter reddish blotches. 



H. micacea. One tine dark female, the colour of H. Peta- 

 sitis when bred ; and one fine female of a rich almost inde- 

 scribable Plusia-Tota colour. This specimen was bred by 

 Jno. Blakley, from the roots of Petasites vulgaris. Words 

 cannot convey any idea of its beauty. 



Xylophasia couibusta. Tn low wet localities this is the 

 prevailing form here, whilst on the dry ground the variety X. 

 combusta is rarely seen : I possess it from pale drab to rich 

 dark brown. 



X. polyodon. One perfect specimen in my collection, 

 expanding one inch two lines, is the smallest specimen I 

 ever saw ; it was taken at sugar, and presented to me as a 

 new species. Around our mosses this species is very dark, 

 and in the wet parts of them we get almost black specimens 

 at sugar: I possess it from light drab to almost black-brown. 



Charoeas Gvaminis. From hundreds of this species, seen 

 stretching their wings on the stems of grasses at the Brushes, 

 I have selected various forms, including the variety hiber 

 nicus. When this species has fed in damp bottoms it is 

 much finer than when the larvas have fed on dry hill-sides. 



Luperina testacea. This varies much in colour, from light 

 drab to dark, but not much in markings : I possess speci- 

 mens from less than one inch in expansion to one inch four 

 lines. 



