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(h) Ab. Brunnea, Tutt (1896). The black replaced by brown. 
(it) Ab. Fluvida, Ksenzopiolisky (1912)? In which the 
normal orange yellow ground-colour (? both sexes) is tawny. 
Being unable to verify the reference in the ‘ Zoological Record,’ 
I leave this aberration in doubt. 
(7) Ab. 2 (vel. forma) Fulvosignata, Rocci (1920). A form 
of the gen. est. only: spots in marginal band intense fulvous to 
orange (? ab. Flavida). 
(k) Ab. 3 Deserticola, Verity. A small form with very pale 
whitish-yellow ground-colour (‘ Rhopal Palearct.’). 
M. Oberthiir (op. cit., fasc. x, p. 77) says that this form is by 
no means confined to the desert region of the Algerian Sahara, 
but is met with elsewhere as an occasional departure from the 
type. 
(l) Ab. Cremone, Bang-Haas (‘ Iris,’ vol. xxvi, p. 103). A 
colour form from the Lebanon, chiefly remarkable in that the 
normal orange colour is primrose as in C. paleno $ (= Huro- 
pomene, QO). 
(m) Ab. Chrysothemeformis, Verity (1919). Form of the gen. 
vern. in Tuscany ‘‘ identical with Chrysotheme, Esp., except for 
the patch of androconial scales in the 3.” 
(n) Ab. ¢ Passa, Verity (1906). Ground-colour very pale 
yellow. Marginal bands very pale reddish brown. Differs from 
ab. Brunnea, Tutt (q.v.), which has the ground-colour deep 
orange (‘ Rhopal. Palearct.,’ pl. xlvii, fig. 10). 
(To be continued.) 
OXIGRAPHA LITERANA, L.: ITS LIFE-CYCLE, 
DISTRIBUTION, AND VARIATION. 
By W. G. SHeupon, F.Z.8., F.E.S. 
(Continued from p. 135.) 
Ab. romanana, Fab. (Plate I, fig. 3.) 
Synonomy.—Romanana, Fab. Pyralis mantissa, 1, p. 234 
(1787); Fab., Syst. Ent., tome iii, par. ii, p. 270, No. 119 
(1794); Hubner, Tort., fig. 88 (1797) (literana); Hubner, Verz., 
p. 386, No. 3748 (1826) (notatana); Snellen, Vlinders, p. 176, 
No. 4 (1882) (squamalana). 
Original description.—Pyralis romanana, alis virescentibus 
albo seabris : lunula media atra. Habitat in Germania austra- 
liori. Mus Dom. Romani. Afiinis pracedenti (squamana) ale 
antice virescentes punctis plurimus, elevatis, albis. In medio 
lunula magna, atra. Ale postice fusco cineree. Abdomen 
cinereum linea laterali, fusca. 
This beautiful and chaste form is really an aberration of the 
type-form literana, in which all the black markings are wanting 
with the exception of the central lunule. The clear green disc 
