IN THE BKITISH ISLANDS. 129 



line pale yellowish in colour. The orbicular and reniform both 

 yellowish, outlined in white ; the extreme costal area above the stig- 

 mata dark plum-colour, the space below the same bright red, the 

 elbowed and subterminal lines whitish, the space between them red, 

 the space beyond the subterminal grey, fringes yellow, all the nervures 

 white and distinct. Hind wings dark grey, outer edge pinkish " 

 (' Sammlung europ. Schmet.,' fig. 91). 



P. var. grisea, mihi. I am not certain whether this is Goze's type 

 of griseo-variegata, but it is undoubtedly the var. A of Guenee, who 

 writes : " The red colour almost completely disappears, and is replaced 

 by greenish-grey, the stigmata also shaded slightly inside with the 

 same colour " (' Noctuelles,' vol. v., p. 340). He also adds that " the 

 variety is found in the same localities as the type, but more especially in 

 Lapland." In England a fair proportion of our specimens are of this 

 grey variety. I have it from several English and Scotch localities. 



Pachnobia, Gn. 



This genus was created by Guenee for carnea, hyperborea, carnica 

 and glacialis, the two latter having since been proved vars. of hyperborea, 

 which species has, I believe, very properly been referred to Agrotis. 

 Staudinger removed leucographa and rubricosa into the genus with 

 carnea, and it is only in this restricted sense that we use the genus. 

 Our two British species, which appear to have no very close relation, 

 are subject to a fair amount of variation, rubricosa being, like so many 

 species, normally red in our more southern localities, quite slaty in the 

 more northern ones. I am almost entirely indebted to Dr. T. A. 

 Chapman for my knowledge of some of the species in Pachnobia and 

 Tceniocampa. 



Pachnobia, Gn., leucographa, Hb. 



I have a very long series of this beautiful species, thanks to Dr. 

 Chapman. The characteristic red colour of this species varies considerably 

 in intensity, sometimes being bright and tending almost to ochreous 

 (= var. rufa), at others, tending to blackish. There is also a great 

 deal of variation in the colour, development and position of the 

 stigmata, frequently these are of a bright yellow colour, whilst 

 occasionally, they are of the ground colour and exhibit no special de- 

 velopment, and are, in fact, practically obsolete. The 8-shaped 

 reniform, where the upper and lower parts are filled in with darker, 

 with an ochreous outline, appears to be by far the commonest form. 

 The type is figured by Hiibner, and has the " anterior wings of a dull 

 reddish colour, with a much paler (pinkish) appearance on the outer 

 part of the wing beyond the elbowed line ; a grey shade on costa just 

 above the stigmata ; a black transverse basal line ; the stigmata out- 

 lined in yellowish ; a costal streak above the orbicular ; a black shade 

 from the costa to the reniform which is continued from the reniform 

 to the inner margin ; elbowed line wavy, subterminal line from apex 

 to anal angle distinct, the outer area beyond the subterminal line very 

 dark. Hind wings pale grey with a pinkish tinge, the hind margin 

 dark, with a pale line running through it, distinct lunule " (' Samm- 

 lung europ. Schmet.,' fig. 411). His fig. 572 in the same work, is of a 

 much darker red colour. The form with the pale shade running 

 from the apex to the inner margin is a very characteristic one. The 

 more unicolorous red- brown form without the pale shade from the 

 costa to the inner margin just beyond the elbowed line, which cha- 



K 



