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Calymnia, Hb., trapezina, Linn. 



Vol. iii., p. 22. Calymnia trapezina var. badiofasctata, Teich. 

 The original notes on this variety are as follows : " Of this species 

 three specimens have been taken here, which vary so much from the 

 normal form that they might almost be supposed to be another species. 

 I, therefore, add a description, whilst I propose to name the form var. 

 badiofasciata. The ground colour is similar to the ordinary trapezina, 

 but the male is paler and the female more reddish-yellow. The mark- 

 ings above are those of the normal form, but the central area is 

 dark chestnut-brown, and consequently the black spot is not seen ; the 

 wavy line towards the margin is also shaded with dark. The fore 

 wings are darker underneath, and the hind wings have a broad 

 blackish-grey band instead of the dotted arched streak ; but between 

 the base and central lunule the commencement of a similar band, which, 

 however, soon becomes suffused, is still seen on the costal margin. 

 They were taken at sugar during the second half of July " (' Stettiner 

 entomologische Zeitung,' vol. xliv., p. 178). This variety comes very 

 near my var. rufo-pallida (ante, vol. iii., p. 23), and may even be 

 identical with extreme forms of it. The type of var. badiofasciata 

 was taken in Kiga. 



Dianthoecia, Bdv., ccesia, Bkh. 



Vol. iii., p. 39. Dianthoecia ccesia .var. manani, Gregson. Mons. 

 Oberthiir records this from the Pyrenees. He writes : " The type 

 from Cauterets is dark, nearly approaching that from England " 

 (' Etudes d' Entomologie/ viii., p. 49). 



Hecatera, Gn., chrysozona, Bkh. 



Vol. iii., p. 40. Hecdtera chrysozona var. (Stdgr.). Of the Central 

 Asiatic form Staudinger writes : " Two very pale specimens were sent 

 to me from Saisan, which, however, do not agree with my var. innocens 

 nor with var. caduca (the latter I now consider to be certainly a form 

 of chrysozona). From Margelan, I last year received a larger number 

 of these paler but variable specimens, which I sent away at first as 

 caduca, but which cannot be considered as this form which has no 

 yellow shadings. Some specimens from Dalmatia resemble var. inno- 

 cens, others are very different, yet I think they should be included 

 under the same varietal name " (' Stettiner entomologische Zeitung,' 

 vol. xliii., pp. 36-37). 



Vol. iii., p. 40. Hecatera chrysozona var. caduca, H.-S. Staudinger 

 considered this variety of chrysozona from Crete, as doubtfully belong- 

 ing to serena or chrysozona, but in the * Stettiner entomologische 

 Zeitung,' vol. xliii., pp. 36-37, refers caduca decidedly to chrysozona. 

 Herr Speyer then wrote : " Until now, Mamestra caduca was unknown 

 to me, but a male specimen captured by my brother in Granbiinden on 

 July 14th, 1861, agrees exactly with Herrich-Schaffer's description 

 (' Schmet. von Europa ' ii., p. 266) no less than with his exact figure 

 (484). There can be no doubt about the identity of the species, and in 

 my opinion, caduca is not a distinct species but an aberration of chry- 

 sozona, Bkh. (dysodea) very slightly coloured in the central area, in 

 which the yellow is only represented by a faint shade. The markings 

 tally exactly, especially those of the hind wings, with Herrich-Schaffer's 

 figure ; and the second transverse line of the fore wings, which in this 

 species makes a sharp, wedgeshaped mark, in serena forms only a short 



