96 VARIETIES OF NOCTTL2E 



punctoque in medio atris." The figure to which this description refers 

 may be described as : " Anterior wings pale reddish-grey with dotted 

 basal line ; dark stigmata outlined in paler, but no claviform ; two 

 dotted lines occupy the places of the ordinary elbowed and subter- 

 minal, the latter edged on both sides with darker " (' Die Schmet. in 

 Abbildungen,' p. 149, pi. 104). 



1. Pale grey = var. adsequa, Tr. 



la. Pale grey, tinted with red = var. pallida. 



2. Dark stone-grey = var. grisea. 



2a. Dark grey, tinted with red = sub-var. rufo-grisea. 



3. Dark blackish-grey = var. consequa, Hb. 



4. Pale ochreous = var. ochrea. 



4a. Pale ochreous, tinted with red = sub-var. rufo-ochrea. 



4b. Pale ochreous, tinted with green = sub-var. virescens. 



5. Pale red = var. rufescens. 



5a. Bright dark red = var. rufa. 



5b. Keddish-brown = var. orbona, Hufn. 



6. Brown, with red costa = var. curtisii, Newm. 



7. Black = var. nigrescens. 



7a. Black, with red costa = sub-var. rufo -nigrescens. 



The following varieties have also been described : 



1. Without lunules on hind wings = var. connuba, Hb. 



2. With narrow border to hind wings = var. subsequa, Haw. 



3. With contiguous stigmata = subsequa, Curt. 



4. Eeddish-brown, variegated with darker = prosequa, Tr. 



a. var. adsequa, Tr. Of this variety Dr. Staudinger writes : 

 " Pallidior, unicolor ; vix mom. conserv." (' Catalog ', p. 81). Treitschke 

 himself writes : " Light greyish, without any distinct markings " 

 ( ( Die Schmet.' &c., vol. v., p. 256). This pale form is one of the 

 commoner forms in Britain, 1 have it from many localities north and 

 south. Guenee treats it as the same as consequa, Hb., but, since adse- 

 qua, Tr. is light grey, and consequa is dark grey in colour, he is evi- 

 dently in error. 



/:?. var. pallida, mihi. Anterior wings of a pale grey colour tinted 

 with reddish, the stigmata and transverse lines rather variable in in- 

 tensity and development. The form is not uncommon both in 

 northern and southern localities in Britain, although perhaps it is 

 rather more common in England than Scotland. This is simply a 

 sub-variety of adsequa, Tr. It is figured ' Entom.,' xxii., PL vi., 

 figs. A, 1 and A, 2, the red in these being rather strongly marked. 



y. var. grisea, mihi. This dark grey form is by far the commonest 

 variety found in the southern counties of England. It is also widely 

 distributed among the rarer Scotch varieties. Sub-var. rufo-grisea, is 

 closely allied to grisea, but has the grey ground colour lightly tinted 

 with reddish. It is also rather a common form. 



8. var. consequa, Hb. This is treated as a var. of our subsequa by 

 Staudinger and Guenee, but there is no doubt that it is a var. of orbona 

 (comes). A note I made in 1887 is as follows : "The anterior wings 

 are of a dull purplish-brown with pale bluish-grey transverse lines 

 (' Sammlung europaischer Schmet.,' fig. 105). It is undoubtedly a 

 form of orbona (comes), and as such takes priority of the latter name 

 (comes), even if comes were, as is sometimes assumed, the type. 



