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the county, as it occurs to my knowledge at Driffield, Darlington, 

 and Hull ; also in Lincolnshire. See Mr. Fletcher's remarks 

 already quoted. 



Mr. Carrington's statement (Entom. xxiii. 207) that S. lubrici- 

 pedaYa,Y. radiata (meaning by radiata the var. ehoraci, which, until 

 the introduction of Mr. Harrison's form, was erroneously called 

 radiata) only occurred in a timber-yard close to the railway 

 station between the years 1860 and 1870, may have been correct 

 at that time, although from the evidence I have obtained of its 

 present distribution I very much doubt it. However, it certainly 

 would not hold good at the present time, as the var. ehoraci or 

 York form is and may be bred from larvae collected in any part 

 of the city or outskirts, but is most certainly not so common as 

 one would infer from Mr. Porritt's notes on the radiated varieties 

 of the genus Arctia, where that gentleman states the var. radiata 

 (meaning the var. ehoraci) is not at all uncommon about York. 



Among some 150 luhricipeda bred this season from York 

 larvae, I only got three specimens of the var. ehoraci, two males 

 and one female ; in addition to these some twenty intermediate 

 varieties. Forms of luhricipeda much darker than the type and 

 approaching, but still distinct from, ehoraci as figured, are 

 certainly not of uncommon occurrence, when the species is bred 

 in considerable numbers. These forms also occur fairly com- 

 monly at Hull and Darlington. I recently inspected the grand 

 lot of varieties of luhricipeda bred by, and now in the possession 

 of, Mr. George Jackson, York ; his series consisted of 15 rows, 

 each row having from 20 to 22 specimens, or some 315 examples 

 in all. About 50 were true ehoraci, as figured (Entom. xxvii. 

 p. 205) ; the remainder were principally varieties, very closely 

 resembling ehoraci and connecting that form with the type. The 

 whole of these fine forms had been selected by Mr. Jackson from 

 many thousands of luhricipeda which he had bred during the 

 last few years. 



Var. fasciata. — Mr Jackson had numerous examples, both 

 male and female, of this form, and several very nearly approach- 

 ing it. This variety also occurs not uncommonly at Scarborough, 

 Hull, Darlington, and Driffield. Some half-dozen examples had 

 the hind wing marked very much like those of the var. radiata, 

 and the fore wings not so strongly marked as in ehoraci. For 

 this variety, which is recurrent, and of which I have two in my 

 collection from Hull and Driffield resj)ectively, and which also 

 occurs at Darlington, I would propose the varietal name of semi- 

 radiata. Another uncommon variety has five small dots on each 

 of the fore wings arranged as follows : one in centre of costa, 

 two near the tip, and two in centre of inner margin ; hind wings 

 spotless. Five of the specimens were very interesting varieties, 

 and quite distinct from either ehoraci or fasciata, being identical 

 with figure 1 E on plate 76 of Barrett's ' Lepidoptera ' ; indeed, 



