110 LEPIDOPTERA. 



being larger ; in the black markings being absent or very 

 faint; and also in its habits, the habit of ingratella, in 

 its Folkestone haunts at any rate, being to rest on lumps 

 of chalk, &c., &c. I had for some time suspected it to be 

 distinct from duhitalis. It is easily disturbed by day in June 

 and July, and is rather abundant. 



Catoptria aspidiscana, Hiib. 



Mr. Ilodgkinson writes (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. iv. p. 16), 

 that he has taken this species for some years flying in 

 company with Eno]isela quadrana. The captures have 

 been identified by Mr. Doubleday. C. aspidiscana is, I 

 believe, a very variable species ; but not having at present 

 had the advantage of seeing a long series, I can only judge 

 of it from two specimens kindly presented to me by my old 

 friend, Mr. Harrison of Manchester. These appear to be 

 excessively closely related to the insect which goes in our 

 cabinets by the name Catoptria modestana, 11.- S. (dark 

 variety), another exceedingly variable species. 



By the way Dr. Staudinger gives modestanaj H.-S., as a 

 synonym of modicana, Zcll., bringing'it in, in the subgenus 

 JPcudisca, soon after IIolLenwartiana, while he places asin- 

 discana with ScopoUanaj h7/perica7ia, &c., further on in the 

 subgenus Graj)hoUtha. 



Halonota {Graj)holitha)j ravulana, H.-S. (Fig. 2). 



This little novelty, which has been discovered in this 

 country by Mr. E. G. Meek, appears to be most nearly 

 related to Salonota ohscurana, H.-S., of which it is about 

 the size. The o;round colour of the fore-wincj:s is blackish, 

 with a bluish tint, mottled, and indistinctly traversed by 

 blacker lines and strigce; towards the hind-margin is a 



