106 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



ab. hifasciana, Don. 



Synonymy. — hifascimia, Donovan, Brit. Ins. x, p. 86, and pi. 

 ccclvii, fig. 3 (1801) ; Westwood, Brit. Moths, ii, p. 151, and pi. xci, 

 fig. 11 (1845) ; Sepp, Ins. Ned. 2nd series, i, p. 147, and pi. xxxiii, 

 fig. xiii (1862). 



Original description. — " Phalcena hifasciana, Donovan, ' Brit. 

 Ins.,' X, p. 86, and pi. ccclvii, fig. 3 (1801). Anterior wings 

 testaceous, with two whitish bands and four distinct undulated 

 streaks and spots of black." 



Donovan's figure, although clear, and a good one from an 

 artist's point of view, is, like so many of his figures, rather 

 highly coloured, and one suspects it is rather more highly 

 coloured than was the actual specimen which he intended it 

 to represent ; at any rate, I have never seen an example in 

 which the "whitish bands" which he describes, are so prominent. 

 The nearest approach to it in this respect which I know is in 

 the collection of Mr. South. Donovan speaks of this form as 

 " a very uncommon insect," and so it is still, J have seen 

 perhaps a dozen examples in all the collections I have gone 

 through. I possess three which I bred from a' number of larvae 

 obtained in the New Forest in 1917. 



Explanation op Plate I. 



1. ab. ramosana, Hb. 12. ab. adusta. 



2. ab. atrata. 13. ab. canescens. 



3. ab. cladodes. 14. ab. lichenoides. 



4. ab. sagittata. 15. ab. fasciata. 



5. ab. stoniniis, Curtis. 16. ab. depicta. 



6. ab. obsoleta. 17. ab. alhimaculata. 



7. ab. notata. 18. ab. plumhea. 



8. ab. nigripunctata. 19. ab. melanosticta. 



9. ab. riifescens. 20. ab. nigricans. 



10. ab. brune-tcens. 21. ab. rosea. 



11. ab. variegata. 



(To be continued.) 



•ON SOME NORTH-COUNTRY SPECIES AND FORMS OF 

 LEPIDOPTERA. 



By J. J. Listek, F.R.S., F.E.S. 



Arra, heata Petamus arva ! 

 (Concluded from jj. 88.) 



The first of our species that we hit on was Ccenonympha 

 tiphon var. laidion, Bork., a very different insect from var. 

 philoxejius, which we left at Witherslack. It is much paler, 

 especially in the female, and has indeed very much the colouring 

 of C. pajnphilus. The ocellation, instead of being boldly marked 



