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except that wings are of lighter brown, and yellow spot at tip of 

 fore wings merges into an irregularly defined band parallel to 

 hind margin, and tapering to its junction with inner margin at 

 hinder angle. Third example : — Same as second, except that 

 transverse bands are very much broader, and yellow spots near 

 tip of fore wings do not merge into fascia. The remaining 

 aberrations are not sufficiently conspicuous to merit description. 

 2, Buekleigli Road, Streatham Common, S.W., Jan. 21, 1887. 



THE GENERIC POSITION OF GRAPHOLITHA [?} CMCANA. 

 By W. Warren, F.E.S. 



I VENTURE to offer a few remarks on the question pertinently 

 asked by Mr. Tutt (Entom. 13). It seems to me that if good 

 specimens of ccecana be placed side by side with examples of 

 Stigmonota dorsana and S. orobana, and the markings carefully 

 compared, there need not remain much doubt about the proper 

 position of the former. The particular prominence and direction 

 of the lustrous line produced from the third gemination, that 

 which immediately follows the central fascia, is noticeable in 

 each of them. This line runs first obliquely from the costa 

 towards the centre, and then suddenly perpendicularly to the 

 inner margin before the anal angle, where it is somewhat dilated. 

 The regular alternation of light geminations and darker intervals 

 all along the costa is observable likewise in all three species. 

 But more than this : in three of the specimens of ccecana now 

 before me, — faintly seen in two, but quite visible in the third, — 

 there appears above the inner margin, exactly in the position in 

 which it occurs in S. dorsana and S. orohana, the curved end of a 

 lunular mark, in this case not lighter than the ground colour, but 

 visibly margined with darker; and the margins are more or less 

 distinctly produced to the inner margin, forming the lower arm of 

 the (usual) pale fascia, which separates the basal patch from the 

 central fascia. 



So much for the markings of the imago. I agree, however, 

 with Mr. Tutt, that the larval habits are of equal, I would 

 even say of greater, importance than any number of points of 

 resemblance in the markings of the imago, when it is wished to 



