THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XXXIII.l MAECH. 1900. [No. 442. 



OPORABIA AUTUMN ATA FROM RANNOCH, WITH REFER- 

 ENCE TO SEVERAL OTHER RELATED FORMS. 



By Louis B. Prout, F.E.S. 

 (Plates I. & II.) 



Geometra § nebulata, Tlinb., Diss. i. p. 12 (1784). 



G. aHtumnata, Berk. v. pp. 293, 565 (1794). 



? PhaUena ventilata (Schneider, N. Cat.), Fb., Ent. Syst. iii. pars 2, 

 p. 191 (1794). 



AcidaUa dilutata var. ■^-quadrifasciata, Tr. vi. 2, p. 26 (1828). 



Oporabia aiitumnaria (Dbld.,'N. Cat.), Weav., Zool. p. 3495 (1852). 



0. approximaria, Weav., Zool. p. 3496 (1852). 



O. autnmnata (Bdv. MS.), Gn., Ur. et Phal. ii. p. 264, No. 1334 ; 

 Atlas, pi. 18, 7 (1857). 



0. jiJiqramniaria varr. aiitumnaria et approximaria, Gn., torn. cit. 

 p. 265," No. 1335, A et B (1857). 



O. autiunnaria, Sta., Man. li. p. 77 (1859). 



Cidaria dilutata var. autnmnata, Stgr., Cat. p. 187, No. 2642, b 

 (1871). 



C. JiU<irammaria ab. aiitumnaria, loc. cit. No. 2643, a (1871). 



Oporabia addenduria, White, Scot. Nat. iv. p. 160 (1878). 



? 0. dilutata pallescens, Ckll., Ent. xxii. p. 3 (1889). 



0. gueneata, Prout, Ent. Rec. x. p. 95 (1898). 



The above citations will give a sufficient bibliography of this 

 very interesting though much overlooked species. It is some- 

 what fortunate that the name nchulata was a homonym on its 

 inception, and that thus the generally used name of autumnata 

 (■aria) is the oldest which is valid. 



The present article is written at the instigation of my kind 

 correspondent, Mr. W. M. Christy, of Emsworth, who has been 

 interesting himself in the genus Oporabia for the past few years, 

 and has been fortunate in obtaining — partly by capture and 



BNTOM. — MARCH, 1900. G 



