68 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



9. PoDisMA PEDEMONTANUM, Brunner. 

 Allied to P. salamandra. It may be known by the absence of 

 elytra and tympanum, smooth pronotum, and clear red underside of 

 the posterior femora and short straight cerci of the male. Length of 

 body, 15-5mm. S , 21mm. 5 ; of pronotum, 3-2mm. ^ , 4mm. $ . 



A rare species first recorded from Susa in Piedmont, and since taken 

 in France at Plane, near Mt. Genevre, and Gondran (over 7000 ft.) 

 near Brian9on. 



10. PoDisMA coBELLi, Krauss. 



The cerci, <? , are somewhat compressed, blackish above and at the 

 apex ; somewhat dilated at the apex, the upper margin rounded. 

 Subgenital plate of ^ not compressed, the rounded margins thickened, 

 strongly pointed posteriorly. Distinguished from P. baldensis by the 

 absence of tympanum, forked sternum, and pointed subgenital plate of 

 the ^ ; from P. pedemontanam it differs in colour, chiefly characterised 

 by the form of the cerci of the $ , and of the subgenital plate of the S' • 

 Length of body, 15mm.-15-5mm. ^ , 18mm. -20mm. $ ; of pronotum, 

 3-2mm. J , 3-5mm.-4mm. ? . 



Mountains round Roveredo, Cima Posta, Monte Pasubio (6000 ft.- 

 7000 ft.), in August and September, in the south Tirol. 



Toxocampa craccae, Fb., var. plumbea, nov. var. 



By EUSTACE R. BANKES, M.A.., F.E.S. 



Head anteriorly, and thorax (with tegulfe), bluish-grey ; head 

 posteriorly, and collar, velvety brownish-black. Foreicinris bluish-grey, 

 more or less mixed with chocolate-brown, and with the terminal third 

 much obscured by it. The costal dark spots and triangular subterminal 

 shade are proportionately darker than in the type. Reniform stigma 

 chocolate -brown, partly black-margined ; orbicular represented either 

 by a black dot, sometimes white-ringed, or only a minute white spot. 

 Hifiduings brownish-grey, more dusky posteriorly. Abdomen hvownish- 

 This variety is conspicuously darker than the type, having the 

 forewings of a beautiful bluish-grey, mixed with chocolate, instead of 

 pale ashy-grey, mixed with light walnut-brown, and the hindwings 

 brownish-grey, instead of pale greyish-brown. In the females, the 

 forewings seem to be, as a rule, less strongly bluish-grey, and more 

 decidedly mixed with chocolate-brown, than in the opposite sex. This 

 striking form, which does not appear to have been hitherto described 

 or named, has, during recent years, been bred by a few English 

 collectors from larvae obtained in Cornwall, where, at any rate in some 

 localities, it takes the place of the typical form, which has long been 

 known to occur in the northern portion of Devonshire. I learn from 

 Mr. W. G. Sheldon that the two races appear to be confined to 

 entirely different geological strata, and that, to the best of his 

 knowledge, the typical form is found solely in part of the north 

 Devon district, in which the soil is " red " [i.e., on the Old Red Sand- 

 stone — E.R.B.], while var. plumbea has only been met with to the 

 southwest of the haunts of the type, along a stretch of northwest 

 Devon and north Cornwall, where the formation is "dark shale" [i.e., 



