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series of twenty-one examples, and suppose something like 
5 per cent. of one’s total catch would be represented by it. 
Ab. suffusana, ab. n. (Plate I, fig. 10.) 
I give this name to a form similar to ab. tricolorana, Haw., 
but with the disc of the superiors more or less suffused with black. 
I take it this is a modern development tending to an absolutely 
melanic form. My specimens, seven in number, came from the 
New Forest. 
Ab. abjectana, Hub. 
Synonymy.—Aljectana, Hub., Verz., p. 886, No. 8752 (1826) ; 
Hub., Tort., fig. 97 (1797) (irrorana) ; Snellen, Vlinders, p. 176, 
No. 1 (trrorana) (1882); Standinger, Cat. Pal. Lep., ii, p. 82 
(irrorana), 1901. 
Hubner figures in ‘ Tort.,’ figs. 96 and 97 (1797), two totally 
distinct forms under the name of irrorana: 96 is the true irrorana. 
In 1826, in ‘ Verzeichnis,’ he names fig. 97 abjectana; according 
to his figure it is a dull leaden-coloured insect with obscure 
darker transverse cloudings, a row of black dots in the costa, and 
another row on the hind margin at the base of the cilie. 
The only British examples I have seen of this form are three 
which are in the collection of Mr. R. South; they came from the 
New Forest. 
Ab. squamana, Fab. 
Synonymy.—Squamana, Fab., Syst. Ent., p. 651 (1775); 
Thunberg, Ins. Suec., par. iv, p. 21 (1784); Fab. Syst. Ent., 
tome ill, par. li, p. 270, No. 118 (1794); Donovan, Brit. Ins., v, 
pl. 157, fig. 7 (1796); Haworth, Lep. Brit., p. 410, No. 52 
(1803); Frol., Tort. Wurt., p. 18 (1828) ; Curtis, Guide, p. 173 
(1829); Stephens, Cat., p. 188, No. 7095 (1829); Rennie, 
Conspect., p. 179 (1832); Curtis, Brit. Ent., p. 440, No. 2 
(1833) ; Stephens, Haust., iv., p. 165 (1884); Staudinger, Cat. 
Lep. Eur., p. 234 (1871); Frey., Lep. Schweiz., p. 284 (1880) ; 
Sorhagen, Klein. Schmett. Braud., p. 65 (1886); Staudinger, 
Cat. Pal. Lep., ii, p. 82 (1901); Barrett, Brit. Lep., x, p. 216, 
and pl. 451, fig. 3 (1905); Spuler, Schmett. Eur., p. 242 
(1908); Kennel, Pal. Tort., taf. v, fig. 8, and p. 88 (1908) : 
Wagner, Lep. Cat., par. x, p. 69 (1912). 
Original description (Pyralis squamana, ‘Syst. Ent.,’ p. 651, No. 
36, 1775). --Pyralis alis vires centibus, scabris. Habitat in Anglia. 
Mus. Monson. Statura. P. Schallerianae, at paulo longior, 
ale antice virides, squamis hine inde Elevatis scabre, que 
in medio fere fasciam constituunt. Postice cinerea. 
Ab. squamana is certainly the most abundant of any of the 
