128 VARIETIES OF NOCTtLS! 



a. var. palllda, Ckll. -In 'The Entom.,' vol xi., p. 24, we read 

 that " Mr. Eedle exhibited a very light specimen of Heliothis peltigera." 

 This was named var. pallida by Mr. Cockerell in ' The Entom.,' 

 vol. xxii., p. 4. 



Heliothis, Och., armigera, Hb. 



This species varies excessively. Some of the most remarkable 

 specimens I ever saw were in the collection of the Kev. G. Raynor 

 and were taken in Australia. Hiibner's fig. 370 represents the type 

 of which I made the following description : " Anterior wings pale 

 greyish-ochreous, more yellowish towards the basal part, greyer from 

 the angulated line to the outer margin. Posterior wings grey, with a 

 dark lunule and dark hind margin " (' Sainmlung europ. Schmet.,' 

 fig. 370). Guenee writes: "It varies exceedingly in colour, above 

 all the females, but the varieties are not constant enough to form 

 races " (' Noctuelles,' vol. vi., p. 181). Mr. Stainton writes : " Heliothis 

 armiger, Hb., first recorded as British by Mr. Edleston in the 

 ' Zoologist ' for 1843, p. 260 ' a beautiful female specimen having 

 been taken in September, 1840, off the door of an outhouse belonging 

 to my friend Mr. John Thomas, of Oldfield Lane, Salford, who 

 liberally added it to my cabinet.' A specimen taken near Mickleham 

 is in the collection of Mr. Bedell, and other specimens have been 

 taken in various localities " (' Ent. Ann.,' 1855, p. 16). 



a. var. fusca, Ckll. In 'The Entom.,' vol. xi., p. 24 we read : 

 " Mr. Eedle exhibited a dark brown variety of Heliothis armigera." 

 This variety was named by Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell, var. fusca, of which 

 he simply states : " H. armigera, var. fusca (' Entom.,' xi., 24) " 

 (' Entom.,' xxii., p. 4). 



[3. var. ochracea, Ckll. Mr. Cockerell records a variety under 

 this name without a description, but with a reference to the ' Fourth 

 Report U.S. Ent. Com.,' 1885, pi. iii., fig. 7 (< Entom.,' xxii., p. 4). 



y. var. umbrosus, Grote. Of this variety Mr. Grote writes: 

 " This form occurs commonly in the Southern United States, where 

 its larva is known as the Boll Worm. It has been taken readily 

 flying in the daytime, in the cotton fields in Georgia and Alabama. 

 The moth is somewhat larger, paler, of a more olivaceous colour com- 

 pared with the European type, and the ordinarily darker markings of 

 the wings, are all less evident and distinct. It is figured by Glover in 

 an unpublished work on American insects " (in litt.'). Mr. Cockerell gave 

 me a specimen of this variety of which he wrote : "The example belongs 

 to a sub-var. with the stigmata margined with ferruginous. I call it 

 sub-var. eumaculata " (in litt.). Mr. Grote also further writes to 

 me : " This is a large almost immaculate form with a pale olivaceous 

 tinge to the thorax and hind wings, found commonly in the Southern 

 States. In the North, the colour is more ochreous but always paler 

 than any European specimens I have seen which have had the 

 primaries of an obscure dirty ochreous. This species wants the 

 angulated median shade or band on the primaries characteristic of 

 all the forms of dipsacens " (in Hit. 26, 4, '92). 



Anarta, Tr., myrtilli, Linn. 



This species has, like its larger brother Lycophotia strigula, two 

 distinct colour forms. Most of the specimens are bright red with 



