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colorous grey fore wings and almost all the longitudinal markings 

 absent, and with pale whitish hind wings which I concluded was a very 

 doubtful variety of this species. I believe it may belong to a supposed 

 species very near to tritici which is sent from Hungary and South Russia 

 and called in letters var. rustica, fictilis and even seliginis as well. 

 Seliginis, Dup. appears certainly identical with eruta, Hb. Guenee, for 

 his seliginis, made only some philological observations on the name. 

 Under the whole of these circumstances, I can only refer the before- 

 mentioned Lepsa ? to this interchangeable doubtful species. I would 

 prefer not to write a final opinion here " (' Stettiner entomologische 

 Zeitung/^.vol. xlii., p. 421). 



Vol. ii., p. 47. Agrotis tritici var. varia, Alph. A variety described 

 by Alpheraky under this name, is mentioned in the * Zoological Record,' 

 1889 (Insecta), p. 248, where it states that it is described on p. 138, 

 and figured PI. vii., fig. 1, of Romanoff's ' Memoires sur les Le'pi- 

 dopt&res,' vol. v. This description is : " Chiefly distinguished by the 

 costa, the median nervure and the stigmata being greyish- white and 

 standing out strikingly from the dark ground colour which is some- 

 times almost black. A series of wedge shaped spots on the undulated 

 line, and the large and very dark claviform gives this variety a very 

 different appearance from tritici" 



Vol. ii., p. 52. Agrotis tritici var. detorta, Evers. Eversmann's 

 original description of detorta is as follows : " Agrotis alis anticis 

 cinereis, fusco-obscuratis : strigis ordinariis denticulatis nigris macu- 

 lisque ordinariis distinctis : maculae reniformis margine interna recto ; 

 alis posticis fuscescentibus, albo ciliatis." " It very much resembles 

 Agrotis senna, Hb. in size and shape, differing principally in the reni- 

 form, of which the edge turned towards the base is perfectly straight, 

 whilst it is curved in senna. Its colour resembles that of senna as 

 represented by Boisduval ('Icones,' PI. 77, fig. 4), but not as figured 

 by Hiibner (figs. 771-772) " (< Bulletin Moscou,' 1851, Pt. i., pp. 628- 

 629). 



Agrotis, Och., ripas, Hb.-Gey. 



Vol, ii., p. 71. Agrotis ripce var. desertorum, Bdv. This form 

 from Southern Russia, was described as a distinct species by Boisduval, 

 who wrote of it as follows : " Sub-affinis Riparice : alee anticse 

 angustee, cinerese, strigis tribus punctisque marginalibus nigris : maculis 

 ordinariis f uscis ; rotunda longitudinali, ininuta ; alee posticas nivese ; 

 omnibus subtus albis, puncto discoidali nigro. Inventa in Russia, 

 meridional! a D. Kindermann " (' Genera et Index methodicus ' &c., 

 p. 111). 



Agrotis, Och., lucernea, Linn. 



Vol. ii., p. 79. Agrotis lucernea var. renigera, St. Mons. Oberthiir 

 records this variety from "Cauterets (Pyrenees) in July, 1881; the 

 form as dark as in England " (< Etudes d' Entomologie,' viii., p. 48). 

 Dr. Chapman also gave me a specimen of this variety which was 

 captured in the Pyrenees. 



Agrotis, Och., obscura, Brahm. 



Vol. ii., p. 83. Agrotis obscura. " Clandestina, Harr., placed in 

 the British Museum series as a var. of this species, is a distinct species 

 with structural differences, vide Smith,- ' Revision Agrotis,' p. 94. On 

 the other hand, unicolor, Walk., is only a synonym or slight variety of 



