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colorous specimens, the latter having been obtained from the South of 

 England " (< Entomologist,' vol. iv., p. 54). The forms which we have 

 are : 



1- Pale reddish-grey, narrow stripe of green on inner and outer mar- 

 gins = var. pallida. 

 2. Keddish-brown, with bright green inner and outer margins = 



oxyacanthce, Linn. 

 3. Unicolorous reddish-brown, green obsolete = var. capucina, Mill. 



a. var. pallida, mihi. The anterior wings of a pale reddish-grey, 

 the inner margin with a minimum of pale green ; the central area 

 rather darker, the subterminal area sometimes especially pale, the 

 stigmata and transverse lines very distinct. It is not at all an un- 

 common form, and is the palest we get in Britain. My palest forms 

 have come from Newbury and Sligo, where they occur with the typical 

 form. 



j3. var. capncina, Mill. Staudinger simply says : "Al. ant. 

 brunneis " (' Catalog,' p. 98), and gives as the only locality " Anglia." 

 Guenee does not mention this variety which may probably be restricted 

 to Britain. The anterior wings are of an unicolorous reddish-brown, 

 the stigmata rather indistinct, the normal green absent, the pale sub- 

 terminal area obliterated and filled up with the darker ground colour, 

 the transverse lines indistinct, the white lunular spot on the inner mar- 

 gin towards the anal angle being the only pale spot that is fairly distinct. 

 Newman writes : " In a variety of frequent occurrence which I have 

 represented in the lower figure, the fore wings are of a nearly uniform 

 dark brown colour, the white mark being thus rendered very con- 

 spicuous : this is called the ' dark crescent ' by Haworth " (' British 

 Moths,' p. 402). It is the oxyacanthce, var. ft of Haworth who 

 writes : " Bombyx alis anticis fusco brunneis absque viridi, striga 

 punctorum minutorum pallidiorum marginali " (' Lepidoptera Bri- 

 tannica,' p. 202). Milliere writes : " This constant variety appears 

 commonly in England, from whence I have received many specimens, 

 especially from Mr. Doubleday, who reared them from larvas. In this 

 variety the testaceous grey of the type is replaced by deep carmelite 

 brown. The green scales have entirely disappeared except fine and 

 slight traces on the ordinary median lines, but the pale mark formed 

 by the lower part of the elbowed line stands out conspicuously in clear 

 white. The basal line remains in black, but the brown subterminal 

 spots are absorbed as also are the black terminal streaks. A fine pale 

 line marks the outline of the wing. No author, up to the present, has 

 mentioned this remarkable and constant variety " (' Iconog.' &c., iii., 

 p. 165; PI. 116, fig. 6). Milliere had evidently overlooked Haworth 's 

 notice of the variety. It is also figured in Newman's ' British Moths,' 

 p. 402, fig. 2. My specimens have come from Newbury, Barnsley, 

 Kipon, Twickenham and Farnboro' (Kent). Specimens occasionally 

 occur which are as unicolorous as capucina, except that there is a trace 

 of the green, which is characteristic of the type, on the inner margin. 



Miselia, St., limaculosa, Linn. 



This species probably, does not now occur in Britain, although a 

 few specimens existed in the old collections of three-quarters of a 

 century ago ; and Guenee gives England as one of its localities. The 



