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3. A pale pinkish-grey form, without longitudinal shades = var. 



punicea. 

 3 A. A pale pinkish-grey form, with longitudinal shades = var. punicea- 



suffusa. 



4. A pale ochreous form = var. pallida, St. 



5. A deep reddish (inclining to rose-coloured) form, without longitu- 

 dinal shades = var. pygmina, Haw. 



SA. A deep reddish form, with longitudinal shades = var. fluxa, Tr. 

 6. A deep brownish-red form, with more or less well- developed 



longitudinal shades = var. neurica, St. 

 7. An extremely bright red (brick-red) form = var. fulva, Hb. 



a. var. concolor, Tutt (' Ent.' xxi., 222). Since what is termed 

 the true concolor has been rediscovered, I am not at all satisfied that 

 my notes on the species, ' Ent. Mo. Mag.' vol. xxv., pp. 52-55, apply 

 to our Deal form. These latter, though taken so early, are true fulva 

 vars., and therefore I call the pale var. of this species concolor, Tutt, 

 Gn. (?). Guenee's description of concolor, in every way agrees with our 

 pale specimens, but acting on the advice of those who know more or 

 less about concolor, ab naturd, I have decided to leave the vexed question 

 here. I have fine pale specimens not only from Deal, but from Droy- 

 lesden and Warrington. In the latter locality, they are taken with 

 other varieties, and are generally more shaded with dark longitudinal 

 streaks. Both sexes of this variety occur. 



P. var. ochracea, mihi. Anterior wings of a rich ochreous-yellow 

 colour, unicolorous, with only the faintest trace of the transverse row 

 of dots. A sub- variety ochracea-suffusa of this beautiful variety has 

 the spaces between the nervures powdered with dark scales, having 

 the appearance of dark longitudinal shades. I am indebted especially 

 to the Warrington collectors for this form, but I have a few specimens 

 from York, Morpeth, Glasgow and the Trossachs. 



y. var. punicea, mihi. Anterior wings pale grey in colour, with a 

 faint pink tinge, the row of transverse dots more or less developed. 

 Punicea has a sub-v&Y.punicea-suffusa, with the dark longitudinal dashes 

 developed in the same way as in ochracea-suffusa. My specimens have 

 been taken at Warrington, York, Kirkby, Glasgow and the Trossachs. 



8. var. pallida, St. Figured by Wood in his 'Index. Ent.,' plate xv., 

 fig. 371, and also in Humphrey and West wood's ' British Moths,' plate 

 xlvii., fig. 10. At p. 219 of the latter work, it is described as : " f of 

 an inch in the expanse of the forewings, which are ochreous- whitish, 

 and without any traces of spots or markings ; the veins alone in the 

 apical part of the wing irrorated with dusky scales, and the hind wings 

 whitish." This pale ochreous form varies, as do the others, in the 

 development of the transverse series of dots. This is not at all a com- 

 mon form. I have specimens from Longridge, York and Glasgow. 



e. var. pygmina, Haw. This was treated as the type by all our 

 British authors, the species being thus dealt with by Haworth, Step- 

 hens, Wood, and in Humphrey and Westwood's ' British Moths.' 

 Haworth's description is " the thorax and anterior wings reddish and 

 unspotted, the veins scarcely marked, the hind wings fuscous, the 

 abdomen white (' Lepidoptera Britannica,' p. 176). This pretty red 

 (almost rose colour) form is very different to the bright ferruginous^ 



