NOTES ON THE COLLECTION OF BRITISH MACRO-LEPIDOPTBRA. 257 



SO than any two species of the genus Alcnrodes approach one 

 another, t do not venture to describe tliis until larvae and pupae 

 ,are before me. Precisely as in the case of the most AlcKrodiche 

 neither the imago-nor ovum offer sufficiently strong characters 

 for differentiation. Quite common, with the usual egg batches 

 laid in a blue waxy bloom, on Ulmus campestris at Chopwell, 

 Co. Durham. 



AUurodidarnm, sp. A species noted by Mr. Bagnall in great 

 numbers on Scrophularia nodosa, but as he was not then study- 

 ing the group he neglected to secure examples. Since then 

 prolonged searches on the same lot of plants have been fruitless 

 — a very common experience to the Aleurodid hunter ; his motto 

 must be " Carpe diem." 



SOME NOTES ON THE COLLECTION OF BRITISH 



MACEO-LEPIDOPTERA IN THE HOPE DEPARTMENT 



OF THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY MUSEUM. 



By F. C. Woodforde, B.A., F.E.S. 



(Continued from p. 201.) 



SPHINGIDiE. 



Dilina {Mimas) {SmerintJms) tilice. — Series of over 70, 

 showing a great range of variation both in marking and colora- 

 tion. In marking the variation lies chiefly in the central dark 

 marks in the centre of the fore wing. In some specimens these 

 are united to form an unbroken band, in others this band is 

 broken up into three separate blotches, in others reduced to two, 

 and in a few to one blotch, this lying in the central portion of the 

 wing. Four specimens are asymmetric in marking. The colora- 

 tion ranges from a greyish pink to almost white in the ground- 

 colour of the central {)ortion of the fore w-ing in the males, and 

 over many shades of red-brown in the same part of the wing in 

 the females. In two males from Reading, one taken wild, one 

 bred in 1894, the ground-colour is almost white. 



Smerinthus (AviorpJia) popidi. — A very fine varied series of 

 60. A remarkable series of 8 was bred by Mr. A. H. Hanm 

 in 1900 from ova deposited by a female which was brought 

 to the ]\Iuseum in June. The larvie fed up very quickly, and 

 the moths emerged as a second brood between July 25th and 

 July 30th. They are small. Six are of a very pale whitish- 

 grey colour, with very faint markings. Two are almost uni- 

 colorous pale buff. 



S. ocellatus. — A series of 42 without any remarkable 

 aberration. There are 5 hybrids, popidi- ocellatus. One is from 

 the Hope Collection, two from the Spilsbury, all three without 

 data. Two were bred in Kent by Mr. J. W. Newman in 1917, 



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