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“ Brown, palpi reddish, crown of the head pale; superior 
wings comparatively short, narrow at the base, and eonsider- 
ably broader at the apex, with the costa reddish ; two pale 
strige towards the base, an oblique, oval, and an auriculate 
stigma, with pale margins and reddish centres towards the 
middle, beyond which are two pale sinuated strige, the 
nervures between them pale, and bearing a row of dots 
as well as the posterior margin: inferior wings orange, 
fuscous at the base, the nervures fuscous, a black fimbria, 
narrow at the anal angle, curved above and reaching the 
centre where it forms a crescent, the extreme edge indented 
and not touching the margin; abdomen cinereous; the sides 
and apex ferruginous.”— Curtis, 1. ¢. 
Mr. Curtis, well aware of the similarity of this species 
to the familiar Tryphzna orbona, thus differentiates them :— 
“That my specimen is distinct from our other species 
there is no doubt, for the superior wings are formed more 
like those of Cerigo texta, the stigmata are larger than 
in T. orbona, the fascia of the inferior wings is broader, and 
the superior margin beneath is black and not rosy ; in colour 
it most resembles the N. consequa of Hiibner (Noct. tab. 23, 
fig. 105); his N. subsequa is more like N. orbona.” 
In the ‘ Insect-hunter’s Year-book’ for 1870 I have taken 
considerable pains to differentiate this species from Tryphena 
orbona, with which it may very excusably be confounded by 
those who do not possess a series of both. There are now 
in the possession of myself and others a great number of 
chrysalids, and, when they emerge, some of them will infal- 
libly reveal their ancestry if they be really the descendants of 
Tryphzna orbona. I notice that the very variability of these 
two species has been urged as a plea for reuniting them as 
a single species; but this appears to me quite as cogent a 
reason for keeping them separate, since I have often observed 
that two cognate species may, and frequently do, exhibit an 
infinity of variations—Hdward Newman. 
“Ephyra strabonaria of Zeller.—Intermediaire entre 
Punctaria et Trilinearia mais plus voisine de cette derniére: 
25mm. Ailes dun carné-jaunatre, teinté de rose chez les 
exemplaires frais, sans atomes. Les points des deux series 
ordinaires sont liés et forment deux lignes denticulées. 
L’ombre mediane est bien distincte, mais ne forme pas une 
