LUPERINA GUENEEI VAR. BAXTERI. 291 



L. nickerUi. The fringes are pale, chequered with dark grey, their 

 tips sometimes dotted with hlackish. In two females a hlackish bar 

 extends from the claviform stigma to the post-medial line, and in 

 these specimens the area beyond the white submarginal line is pale, 

 almost whitish. White dots on the costa between the post-medial 

 hne and the apex are present in some of the specimens. Expanse, 

 S 32-34 milHm. ; $ 36-38 millim. 



The following is an abstract from Mr. Baxter's note sent with 

 the insects referred to above : — 



" In 1891 I captured a second specimen of the Luperina 

 thought to be a form of nickerUi, but from that time until the 

 present year I had not been lucky enough to see any others. 

 This was chiefly, perhaps, because I had not been working in the 

 right kind of place. This year a friend of mine and brother 

 collector, Mr. W. Yates, while out with me one evening, came 

 across a Luperina which, on his showing it to me, I at once recog- 

 nized to be the same species as my two previous captures. Since 

 then I have taken six, and I believe Mr. Yates has taken five or 

 six more. Some entomologists who saw the first specimen seemed 

 to think that it was an immigrant, but this year's experience 

 completely disposes of this, as I found one evidently just 

 emerged, as it had a small piece of the pupa-case adhering to 

 it, and on another occasion I found one drying its wings. Mr. 

 Yates also found one drying its wings. I also found a crippled 

 female which was certainly incapable of flying from the Conti- 

 nent ; all which conclusively proves, I think, that the insect is 

 British. The moths were not found all on one spot, but nearly 

 two miles apart. 



" All that Mr. Yates and I have found are similar in character 

 to the 1889 one, and although they vary slightly in the depth of 

 colouring, all are bright silvery grey, with very little trace of 

 ochreous, except one, a rather worn male, which I have sent to 

 Mr. Pierce, of Liverpool, who has kindly undertaken to examine 

 the genitalia; this one was slightly more ochreous than any of 

 the others. At the first glance the specimen might almost be 

 taken for the light grey form of Agrotis ripce. This Luperina is 

 decidedly a coast insect, and I have only seen one L. testacea 

 where it is found." — T. Baxter ; Min-y-don, St. Anne's-on-the- 

 Sea, Lanes. 



In addition to the ochreous specimen mentioned in his note, 

 Mr. Baxter forwarded a second example to Mr. Pierce, whose 

 report thereon is appended: — 



" 1 have examined nine specimens of Luperina testacea, all of 

 which are exactly similar, and two specimens of a new species 

 which agree inter se, but differ from testacea in five very distinct 

 points as follows : — 



2 b 2 



