290 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



"In 1860 or 1861, T. Porter (still living) brought me two fine 

 specimens of a moth I did not know. They were of both sexes. 

 I purchased them from him, and sent them on to the Rev. H. 

 Burney, who forwarded them to Henry Doubleday. From him 

 they went to Guenee, and he returned them with the remark that 

 he had a specimen in his collection marked as a variety of 

 L. testacea, but he was quite satisfied they represented a good 

 species when he saw both sexes. H. Doubleday then named 

 them after Gueuee, as the latter was evidently the original 

 captor. I saw Porter again, and he told me another man, by 

 name H. Stephenson, had one. They took three in all near the 

 ferry at Pihyl, North Wales. I sent Porter again, and went 

 myself, but we failed to find more afterwards. I bought the 

 specimen from Stephenson, and sent it to Miss Sulivan, of 

 Fulham, where, I suppose, it remains. I think it was a female." 



Barrett (Brit. Lep. iv. p. 335), in referring to the three North 

 Wales specimens, states that they " were raked from overhanging 

 edges of sandhills." 



The foregoing then appears to be all that was definitely known 

 of the British history of gueneei up to 1889, in which year Mr. 

 Baxter sent me a specimen which, as already adverted to {antea, 

 p. 269), I then thought was a link connecting gueneei with 

 nickerUi. It was this specimen, Mr. Baxter informs me, that 

 Mr. Tatt described as Luperina testacea var. incerta, and not the 

 1891 example. In my remarks on the specimen (Entom. xxii. 

 p. 271) the ground colour was noted as being pale grey. Tutt 

 (Brit. Noct. i. p. 140) describes the ground colour of the fore 

 wings of incerta as "greyish fuscous, with a slight ochreous 

 tinge." At the present time the 1889 and the 1891 specimens 

 are both distinctly tinged with ochreous. These two specimens, 

 however, are referable to L. gueneei, Doubleday,* a female 

 type of which is in the National Collection at South Kensing- 

 ton. I may add that Sir George Hampson concurs in this 

 identification. The specimens obtained this year are of a 

 rather different form ; therefore, as it is largely due to Mr. 

 Baxter's patient investigation that the Luperina muddle of 

 twenty years' standing has been cleared up, I propose that this 

 form be known as : — 



Var. baxteri (PI. VII. , figs. ^ $ , i 2)- — Ground colour paler, 

 and without the ochreous tinge of gueneei. The black edging of 

 the whitish transverse lines varies in intensity, but in two of the 

 six specimens this is inconspicuous ; the reniform stigma is more 

 or less outlined in white, but this character is less evident than in 



'''' This was from the Burney collection ; a co-type was acquired by the 

 late Mr. P. B. Mason from the same collection, and this subsequently passed 

 into the possession of Mr. E. R. Bankes when Mason's collection was dis- 

 persed in 1905. 



