IN THE BRITISH ISLANDS. Ill 



" The superior wings of this NOCTUA are of a yellowish-grey above, 

 with their central area occupied by a large trapezoidal band, of a dark 

 brown colour, bordered laterally with two brown lines, and in which 

 the two ordinary stigmata which are of a yellowish- white colour are 

 placed. The terminal edge is shaded with brown and edged by a 

 sinuous line of a paler hue. The head and the lower border of the 

 wing from the central band to the corselet, are equally shaded with 

 brown. Lastly, the fringe is yellowish. The inferior wings are 

 entirely whitish above, and all four wings equally whitish below, with 

 a small and obscure crescent in the middle of the inferior wings. The 

 head and corselet (crest) are grey-brown, and the abdomen of the same 

 shade as the inferior wings. The antennae, of a reddish-grey colour, 

 are pectinated in the male and filiform in the female, this difference 

 being the only one that exists between the sexes, although the female 

 is perhaps a little paler. 



" This species, of which the larva has not yet been found, appears 

 at the commencement of September. It is usually found on the ormes 

 which border the roads " (' Histoire naturelle ' etc., vol. vi., p. 277). 



Vol. i., p. 136. Luperina dumeriliiva,T.desylle8i, 1 Bd.\. Boisduval's 

 original description of this form, which he considered a species distinct 

 from dumerilii, is as follows : " Statura dumerilti : alse anticae fuscse, 

 strigis ordinariis obscurioribus, striga fulgurali albido-cinerea, macula 

 reniformi albo nitide scripta, macula orbiculari ovata, pallida, intus 

 infuscata, extus fusco circumdata, oblique posita. Alse posticae albidae. 

 Feminam tantum novi inde de antennis nil dicendum. Nominata in 

 honorem D. Bottin-Desylles, Entomolog. oculatissimi, qui hanc 

 speciem circa St. Sauveur-le-Vicomte invenit " (' Genera et Index 

 methodicus ' etc., p. 113). 



Laphygma, Gn., exigua, Hb. 



Vol. i., p. 144. Laphygma exigua var. pygmcea, Kbr. Eambur's 

 original diagnosis and description of this species is as follows : " Alia 

 fusco-griseis macula subcentrali rufa." " This species is smaller than 

 C. exigua, which it resembles slightly. Its superior wings are very 

 narrow, and are square-cut at their outer edge. They are of a reddish- 

 grey, varied with shades running in indistinct brown lines, although, 

 however, the four transverse lines which usually cross the (anterior) 

 wing are indicated by brown shades, above all the two external ones, 

 which anteriorly, appear to form a sharp angle. The costa, marked 

 with brown points, is in the greater part reddish, above all near the 

 apex. That which distinguishes the species, however, more than all 

 is a red spot, very wide, occupying the place of the ordinary stigmata, 

 of which the reniform is slightly traceable in its external half ; in the 

 other portion a brown dot appears to replace the orbicular. The 

 fringes are of the colour of the wing, traversed by many brown lines, 

 of which one is darker. The inferior wings are very wide, white, 

 edged near the fringe with a reddish-brown line, which tint extends 

 slightly on the wing. The nervures are of the same colour, the fringes 

 are white, with a brownish line on their inner edge. Below, the 

 superior wings and the anterior margin of the inferiors are of a red- 

 dish-ash, the fringes are almost the same as on the upper side. 



" The species was discovered by M. Solier, in the environs of 

 Marseille " (' Annales de la Soc. Ent. de France,' 1834, pp. 384-385). 



