THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Vol. XIV.] APEIL, 1881. [No. 215. 



VARIETY OF MELANTHIA ALBICILLATA, 



MeLANTHIA ALBICILLATA Var. SUFFUSA. 



The pretty variety of M. albicillata, figured above, was one of 

 several imagines of this species reared from a batch of eggs by 

 Mr. T. Meldrum, of Ripon, Yorkshire. It appears to be the 

 counterpart of the variety pUmhata (Curtis) of M. ruhiginata, 

 which occasionally occurs in the Highlands of Scotland. Havnig 

 failed to discover this form described elsewhere, I propose to 

 name it Melanthia albicillata var. suffusa. I have to thank 

 Mr. Meldrum for the opportunity of figuring this example, and 



also for kindly adding it to my collection. 



John T. Carrington. 

 Royal Aquarium, Westminster, S.W., March, 1881. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH 

 PTEROPHORL 



By Richard South. 

 (Continued from p. 53.) 

 Life -HISTORIES of various species of British Pterophori 

 have appeared from time to time in the pages of the 'Ento- 

 mologist' and elsewhere, but these are so scattered as to 



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