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chocolate-brown costal patch, and with a whitish-ochreous basal patch 

 on the inner margin ; the inner margin itself, leading from this basal 

 patch to a whitish-ochreous elbowed line, narrowly whitish ; the 

 elbowed line edged on each side with white; the subterminal line 

 wavy and slaty in colour, with a brownish apical streak. Hind wings 

 grey with a darker transverse band and lunule " (' Sammlung europ. 

 Schmet.' (Pyrales), fig. 12). This pale form is not at all uncommon 

 in the South of England. 



/?. var. rufescens, mihi. The outer margin to the elbowed line, also 

 the inner margin and basal patch whitish, with the dark costal patch 

 extending from the base to the elbowed line, of a brighter reddish 

 colour than in the former variety. This is also a moderately abundant 

 form in the South of England. 



y. var. crassalis, Fab. This is the red-brown form of the species 

 with darker grey or ashy outer and marginal areas, which Fabricius 

 thus describes : " Pyralis alis anticis fuscescentibus apice cinereis : 

 punctis ocellaribus nigris." " Alse anticse f uscse margine tenuiore albo 

 maculato. Margo posticus imprimis interne cinerascens punctis 

 aliquot obsoletis, ocellaribus, fuscis. Postic?e fuscse " (' Entomologia 

 systematica ' etc., p. 222). 



8. var. suffma, mihi. I take the achatalis (fig. 172) of Hiibner as 

 my type of this variety as I have never seen one in nature. As he calls 

 another form also achatalis, I name this su/usa. It has the dark costal 

 patch extending to the inner margin, and filling up completely the 

 normally pale inner marginal and basal areas with dark, whilst at the 

 same time, the dark colour absorbs the elbowed line and reaches the 

 subterminal area, being limited by the pale dots there. The description 

 I made of Hiibner's figure is as follows : " Anterior wings entirely 

 chocolate brown to beyond the elbowed line which is white ; the dark 

 apical streak also with a white edging ; the outer margin paler. There 

 is no pale basal patch nor any pale mottling as in Hiibner's fig. 12. 

 This is Guenee's var. C of which he writes :- " Hb. fig. 172. It is a 

 sub- variety of A* " (which appears to be the same as Thunberg's 

 fontis) " from which it differs by the extension of the brown part 

 which completely absorbs the paler part of the inner margin and even 

 the elbowed line also, the dark area being limited only by the series 

 of white dots, which form in this, a continuous dentate line. Besides 

 this, the two apical spots are united into one large blotch, semilunar in 

 shape and edged with white " (' Histoire naturelle ' etc. (Deltoi'des), 

 vol. viii., p. 34). Guenee then adds : " I have not seen this beautiful 

 variety in nature " (I.e.). This form is intermediate between the type 

 and Hiibner's extreme variety, terricularis. 



. var. terricularis, Hb. Of this variety Staudinger writes : " Al. 

 ant. fere totis nigris, exterius albo lineolatis" (' Catalog,' p. 141), 

 whilst Guenee writes : " I have not seen in nature this Hypena 

 which Treitschke refers here as a variety. After the figure of 

 Hiibner the shape should be different, the superior wings should be 

 entirely of a dark blackish-brown, with a line on the inner margin, 

 and another median one yellow-ochreous, the latter followed by a 



* Vide description of this variety in the general notes on this species, ante 

 p. 68. 



