112 VARIETIES OP NOCTTLfi 



The figure accompanying this description has almost the shape of 

 a TORTRIX, and there is a strong suggestion of crippling or malforma- 

 tion about the specimen, the costa of the fore wing on the left side 

 being concave (vide, I.e., PI. viii., fig. 2). 



Caradrina, Och., alsines, Brahm. 



Vol. i., p. 147. Caradrina alsines var. levis, Stdgr. This variety 

 is described by Staudinger from specimens obtained in Central Asia, 

 as follows : " Caradrina alsines var. levis. I received this species in 

 numbers, captured at Margelan in the beginning of August, also a 

 female from Namangan. I can only look upon it as a strikingly light 

 form of our local alsines. Levis is as large (31-35 mm.) but has a much 

 lighter brownish or yellow-grey (difficult to define) ground colour of 

 the fore wings, which contrasts much with the dark brown-grey of 

 the German alsines. The two upper dark-centred stigmata, contrast 

 particularly in this light levis ; the round orbicular is sometimes nearly 

 obliterated ; and the dark line which runs before the reniform appears 

 distinctly, sometimes very clear, almost black. Besides this, the dark 

 inner border appears very distinctly before the scarcely visible outer 

 zigzag line. The usual three transverse lines are entirely wanting or 

 are only indistinctly marked, especially the third, by means of black 

 dots on the nervures. The hind wings are whitish with somewhat 

 darker nervures. In the female, they have a darker shade towards 

 the outer margin. On the underside of all the wings in alsines are 

 clearly marked dark spots, and the outer line missing or only faintly 

 seen on the fore wings of some specimens. The female from Namangan 

 is a transitional form, as it has almost as dark hind wings as alsines, also 

 dark transverse lines on the light fore wings. A male from Achalzich 

 in Caucasus is also a transitional form ; whilst a male from Brussa, 

 tallies almost exactly with the Central Asiatic levis. Perhaps this pale 

 levis is the second generation in those'parts " (' Stettiner entomologische 

 Zeitung,' 1888, vol. xlix., pp. 29.30). 



Caradrina, Och., quadripunctata, Fab. 



Vol. i., p. 153. Caradrina quadripunctata var. grisea f Ev. The 

 original diagnosis of this form under the name of grisea by Eversmann 

 is as follows : " Caradrina. Ala3 anticas thorace concolores, e fusco 

 griseas, strigis ordinariis per puncta nigra signatis, macula rotunda 

 punctiformi nigra maculaque media reniformi, nigro interrupte 

 circumscripta : posticae albidse, externe fuscescentes, puncto medio 

 fusco " ( Bulletin de la Soc. Imp. des Nat. de Moscou,' 1848, pt. iii., 

 p. 215). 



Vol. i., p. 153. Caradrina quadripunctata var. menetriesii, Kret. 

 This has since been determined as a distinct species by the Scandina- 

 vian entomologists who obtain this particular form, and should 

 therefore be in the best position to judge of its specific identity with 

 quadripunctata or vice versa. Sven Lampa writes a full account of it 

 in the Entomologisk Tidskrift,' 1885, pp. 69-70. 



Vol. i., p. 153. Caradrina quadripunctata var. (?) albina, Ev. 

 Staudinger appears to be inclined now to treat albina as a distinct 

 species, and conyesta, which is given as a var. of quadripunctata in his 

 ' Catalog,' p. Ill, without a mark of doubt, as a variety of albina, He 

 writes ; " Caradrina albina, Ev. and var. (ab.) congesta, Ld. Eight 



