IN THE BRITISH ISLANDS. , 123 



interiorly with black. Clavifonn of ground colour outlined in 

 black and then with white ; orbicular reaching to costa, outlined in white 

 and then with black ; reniform also outlined in white and then with 

 black ; a black wavy line from base of reniform to the inner margin ; 

 six short black costal streaks above the reniform and towards the apex ; 

 a series of black wedge-shaped spots parallel to hind margin ; fringes 

 alternately dark and pale grey. Hind wings grey, paler in centre and 

 towards the upper margin ; lunule in this paler space, dark hind mar- 

 gin, extreme outer edge whitish." His figure 4 on the same plate is a 

 female, " much more brightly marked, more variegated, orbicular not 

 reaching costa ; ground colour deeper, and with a slight reddish tinge, 

 a wavy transverse line parallel to hind margin." This variety is, as 

 mentioned above, the leucophcea of Guenee. Under this name I would 

 include all specimens speckled with ochreous. 



P. var. ravida, Esp. Esper (' Die Schmet.,' &c., vol. iv., 

 p. 145, fig. 1) figures another variety of leucophcea under this 

 name. The description I have made is as follows : " Female. 

 Anterior wings grey, with a slaty shade along the costa, in which there 

 are four short black costal streaks ; there are also two black trans- 

 verse basal streaks ; the claviform brown, edged with black ; 

 reniform and orbicular slaty, outlined in pale. Directly beyond reni- 

 form is a white transverse wavy line, edged internally with black ; 

 all the wing, between this transverse line and the base, tinged with 

 reddish brown, except the costa and inner margin, which are of 

 a slaty colour ; a wavy W line parallel to the hind margin, pale, but 

 internally edged with black. The space outside this waved line, and 

 between it and the hind margin, deep reddish brown. Hind wings 

 dark grey, central area, which contains a dark lunule, paler ; im- 

 mediately beyond the lunule is a dark transverse line, extreme hind 

 margin paler." Guenee, in his ' Noctuelles,' vol. v., p. 178, writes of 

 this variety : " all the median space reddish, lines and stigmata well 

 marked. Between the lunule and the subterminal shade of the inferior 

 wings is a median line. Locality, Bavaria." 



y. var. bombycina, Ev. Staudinger mentions in his ' Catalog ' a 

 variety under this name, which is there described as " minor." I know 

 nothing of it. 



Cerigo, St., mdtura, Hufn. 



Thanks to Herr Hoffmann, of Hanover, I have been able to get 

 Hufnagel's description of this species from ' Berlinisches Magazin,'iii.,p. 

 414. The description is as follows : " Phalcena matura (Die Glanz- 

 motte). Anterior wings brownish grey, with white and light yellow 

 markings, which are generally surrounded with brown. Hind wings 

 light yellow, with a broad brown margin." It will at once be seen 

 on looking through a long series of this species, that there are two 

 well-marked extreme forms one much marbled with white and red, 

 and with distinct transverse lines and stigmata ; the other with these 

 lines and markings very obscured, and the marbling, due to the white 

 and red scales, almost entirely absent, although these are joined by inter- 

 mediate forms. Newman in his ' British Moths,' pp. 295, 296, writes : 

 " Their colour is various, most commonly bistre-brown of several 

 shades, yet sometimes tinged with brick-dust red, and always having 



