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undei' the name of Epiphron, with a white spot in the centre 

 of the ocelli. In 1793 Fabricius described our British form, 

 under the name of Cassiope, in which the ocelli are without 

 the white spot. These two forms, supposed by many Ento- 

 mologists for a long time to be distinct species, are now 

 generally considered to be mere varieties, the white spot in 

 the ocellus being the only difference between them ; and 

 Knoch's name, being the older of the two, is retained. 

 4. The case in which Argynnis Dia was found passed out of 

 Weaver's hands without his knowing that this species was in 

 it; and it might possibly have been placed there by another 

 person, as he never positively asserted that he knew where it 

 came from, but thought he must have taken it in a wood near 

 Birmingham. — These notes are intended as explanatory of 

 the views now entertained on the subjects Mr. Buxton men- 

 tions. — Eclica rd Newm an.^ 



Changes of Name ^ Sfc. — Tapinostola Bondii appears to be 

 identical with Noclua extrema of Hubner : three years ago 

 Dr. Staudinger expressed a belief that this was the case, and 

 Mr. Doubleday, on a recent examination of Hubner's figure, 

 believes Dr. Staudinger is right. Our Nonagria neurica 

 agrees with N. Arundineti of Schmidt, and is not the Neurica 

 of Hubner's figure 381. In my differentiation of Bombyx 

 Callunae and B. Quercus [(Entom. ii. 140) I omitted a cha- 

 racter which Mr. Doubleday has long observed ; the so-called 

 B. Callunae has a conspicuous white spot in the centre of the 

 fore wings on the under side ; this spot is wanting in the so- 

 called Quercus : but as the Calluuaj of Palmer is certainly 

 the Quercus of Linneus, it is desirable to revert to the Lin- 

 nean name ; and the Quercus of Stephens and of our cabi- 

 nets, being thus left without a name, will require one ; I 

 think fmniliaris would be appropriate, seeing it occurs so 

 universally about our homesteads, both here and on the Con- 

 tinent ; while its congener frequents heaths and wilds. Noc- 

 tua conflua, a series of which, kindly presented by Mr. 

 Backhouse, has long stood under that name in the cabinet 

 under my care, is found to have a very different larva from 

 N. festiva : a translated description thereof will shortly ap- 

 pear in the ' Entomologist.' — Edward Newman. 



Hepialus Humuli var. thulensis : Barren Females of 

 Acherontia Atropos. — Hepialus Humuli was very abundant 



