16 VARIETIES OF NOCTILS) 



Stainton in the ' Manual ', vol. I., p. 224, says of lunigera : "grey 

 shaded with red-brown." This is a most rare development, I have 

 only two specimens thus tinged, but I believe Mr. A. J. Hodges has 

 other specimens. Guene'e writes of this species: "This Agrotis 

 partakes at the same time of the characters of segetum and exclamationis. 

 It is closely allied to trux, and, although it appears to have a very 

 different shape, I should not like to affirm that it will not be recognised 

 at some future time, as simply a northern form of this species " 

 (' Noctuelles', vol. v., p. 280). Guen^e's var. A appears to me a variety 

 of segetum similar to one I recorded from Deal (* Entomologist ', vol. 

 xviii., p. 95) as lunigera. 



a. var. pallida, mihi. Anterior wings pale whitish-grey with a 

 slaty tinge, with an abbreviated, followed by a complete double basal 

 streak, distinct black claviform, orbicular very pale surrounded with 

 black, reniform of ground colour surrounded with black, a faint wavy 

 line beyond reniform and a slight shade parallel to hind margin. 

 Hind wings white. I have seen no females of this variety. This would 

 be apparently Guenee's var. A., if it really be this species, of which 

 he writes : " Of an almost uniform clear grey, which renders the 

 stigmata more than usually distinct and the markings clearer." 

 Locality : " Scotland " (' Noctuelles', vol. v., p. 280). 



ft. var. virgata, mihi. Anterior wings pale whitish-grey, with 

 two basal lines as in the last mentioned variety, orbicular clear 

 surrounded with black, the reniform included in a dark transverse 

 shade extending from the costa to the inner margin ; all the outer area 

 of the wing beyond the elbowed line dark fuscous. This variety 

 occurs in both sexes. 



y. var. suffusa, mihi. The anterior wings with the whole area 

 dark blackish-grey, except the pale orbicular and a small pale patch 

 between the reniform and elbowed line which are slightly paler, 

 transverse lines indistinct, claviform and outline of reniform intensely 

 black. Hind wings of males almost as dark on outer margin as in 

 females. The variety occurs in both sexes but very rarely in the male. 



8. var. nigra, mihi. Anterior wings unicolorous blackish, with 

 black transverse lines and stigmata absorbed in ground colour, some- 

 times orbicular faintly noticeable. I have seen this extreme variety 

 only in the female, and it is rare even in that sex. 



. var. rufescens, mihi. Another very rare variety of this species, 

 with the markings, stigmata, &c. as in the type, but the ground colour 

 tinged throughout with reddish. This is a very rare variety in Britain 

 although Stainton in the ' Manual ' says of the species " tinged with 

 reddish-brown." 



Agrotis, Och., vestigialis, Kott. 



This species is exceedingly variable both in ground colour and 

 markings, although between the extreme forms every intermediate 

 variety occurs. Some of the specimens are 'almost pure white in 

 colour, others grey, others deep reddish-brown, others black. The 

 characteristic markings of this species are, a longitudinal basal streak, 

 a double transverse basal line (incomplete) on which is situated the 

 claviform, the elbowed line directly beyond the reniform and another 

 wavy line parallel to the hind margin ; a series of wedge-shaped marks are 

 situated on this last line, the orbicular and reniform are generally well 



