78 VARIETIES OF 



3. Black and reddish, with whitish inner margin, stigmata and sub- 

 terminal area = var. variegata. 



4. Black and reddish, pale inner margin, stigmata unicolorous = var. 

 suffusa. 



a. var. seladonia, Haw. This is very much like the type but has 

 the green much darker and the black markings more strongly 

 developed. Haworth's description is : " Noctua alis viridi cinereoque 

 variis, posticis fimbria fusca in qua striga albida." " Costa anteriorum 

 alarum nigro multipunctata. Stigmata ordinaria, et tertia subbifida 

 infima, pallidiora fere ut in prsecedentibus (ochracea). Postica pars alse 

 etiam paulo pallescit. Striga pallida undata juxta marginem posticum, 

 punctis trigonis nigris variis, at in ipso margine magis regularibus. 

 Posticse cinereee, fimbria fusca in qua striga albicans, margine ipso 

 undatim nigro strigato ; ciliis cinereis punctis f uscis " (' Lepidoptera 

 Britannica,' p. 199). This form is similarly marked to that in 

 Newman's ' British Moths,' fig. 1, but has the ground colour much 

 darker. 



/3. var. variegata, mihi. This variety is figured in Newman's 

 * British Moths,' p. 413, fig. 3. It has lost the mottling characteristic 

 of the type and var. seladonia, and the colours are now distinctly 

 developed and separated, especially the white markings. It is 

 the seladonia var. (3 of Ha worth, who writes : " Oinnino pallidior 

 et pulchrior ; margine tenuiore, stigmatibus tribus, fasciaque apicis 

 albidis ; strigaque alba posticarum in qua ordo punctorum fuscorum " 

 ('Lepidoptera Britannica,' p. 199). Of this variety, Mr. Mason 

 of Clevedon writes : " I took a beautiful variety of proteus at 

 sugar on the evening of September 14th. It is evidently the 

 same form as the lowest figure in Newman's work, but with the 

 white markings more pronounced" ('Young Naturalist,' vol x., 

 p. 233). 



y. var. suffusa, mihi. This is the darkest form of the species 

 and is figured in Newman's ' British Moths,' p. 413, fig. 2. 



Hadena, Och., glauca, Hb. 



There appear to be two forms of this species, one more bluish 

 and with the central area having a darker appearance, the other less blue, 

 of a whiter or greyer shade and hence more ashy and uniform in appear- 

 ance. The latter greyer and more unicolorous form appears to be the 

 lappo of Duponchel ; the former and bluer is the type. Hiibner's 

 type may be thus described: " Anterior wings of a slaty-grey, with a 

 bluish tinge ; two transverse bluish double basal lines outlined in 

 black, the stigmata outlined in bluish ; elbowed line black ; sub- 

 terminal consisting of 4 cuneiform marks and a black lunule at the 

 anal angle ; extreme hind margin dotted " (' Sammlung. europ. Schmet.' 

 &c., fig. 410). Guenee writes : " It varies little ; but, although it 

 was long since well-known and figured by Kleemann, the figures that 

 have been given of it in latter works have been so bad, that everyone 

 has believed that he has obtained varieties or even new species. As 

 an example, I would mention, the apparent difference between the 

 glauca of HUbner, which he has pictured entirely blue to justify its 

 name, and the aperta of Greyer which is figured entirely black ; yet 

 both are doubtless, in ground colour, only exaggerations of the same 



