132 VARIETIES OF NOCTTTjfl 



super navuscentibus, alisque subtus fiavo polline adspersis " (' Ent. 

 Carniolica' &c., p. 230). This type is the arbuti of Fabricius and 

 Esper. I have an idea that a form of this species with white hind 

 wings was named var. albescent by Mr. Cockerell, but I really cannot 

 find the reference. Of a figure drawn from a similar specimen, 

 Gruenoe writes : " This pretty Noctuelle varies little. The figure c of 

 Engramelle however, represents a specimen with white inferior wings, 

 which appears to be entirely accidental " (< Noctuelles,' vol. vi., 

 p. 198). 



a. var. jocosa, Zell. This is treated by Guenee as a distinct 

 species on the figures of Herrich-Schaffer (figs. 444-445). He 

 writes : " I have not seen it in nature, but if one may judge from 

 the figures, it is very close to arbuti from which it appears to differ 

 principally (I) in the yellow colour of the lower wings, which extends 

 to the costa, (2) in the black at the base being more restricted, and (3) 

 the underside of the superior wings, which is entirely yellow, with an 

 olive border, and a black cellular streak, in contact with a streak of the 

 same colour " (' Noctuelles,' vol. vi., p. 198). 



ADDENDUM. 



p. 26. Insert in line 5 of the paragraph referring to Dianthcecia 

 irregularis : 



Rottemburg's further description of Hufnagel's type is as 

 follows : " The ground colour of the fore wings is yellowish-brown 

 speckled with white, with the ordinary scalloped and angular trans- 

 verse lines. Between the second and third of these stand the orbicular 

 and reniform stigmata ; the former is quite white, surrounded by a 

 blackish-brown outline, the latter, is also white on the edge, and 

 bordered by a blackish-brown line, the centre of the stigma being 

 brownish. The outer margin of the fore wings is yellowish-brown, 

 marked alternately with whitish. The hind wings are yellowish-brown, 

 darker towards the outer margin and have quite a white border." He 

 also adds : " Though this moth belongs to the smaller species, as it 

 scarcely equals fultginosa in size, it has a pretty appearance owing to 

 its varied coloration and fine markings " (' Der Naturforscher,' xi., 

 p. 130). I am indebted to Dr. Karsch of Berlin for this description 

 which arrived too late to be inserted in its proper place. 



CORRIGENDUM, 

 p. 91. Lines 8-9. For var. scotica, St., read var, scotica. 



