146 THE entomologist's record. 



common ; Cuspidia vie(jacephala, common ; Leucania conigera, fairly 

 common; A.rylia ^j»^/?s, occasionally ; Xylinalithoxylea^iohxlj cornxiioxi.',. 

 X. monoglypha, common ; Dipteryyia pinastri, common ; Mamestra 

 hrassicae, common ; M. persicariae, common ; Apawea basilinea, fairly 

 common ; A. opMof/rannna, once; A. ocideo, common ; Miana strigilis, 

 common ; Grammcsia trilinea, once, 1889 ; Caradrina morphem, occasion- 

 ally ; C. qxadn'juoictata, common ; Af/rotis puta, once, 1898 ; A. segetvvi, 

 common; A. e.rdamationis, common ; GrapMpJiora augur, larvae found 

 and imagines bred 1899 ; Noctua xanthographa, common ; Triphaena 

 pronuha, very common ; T. comes, fairly common ; AmpJiipyra tragopo- 

 goni a, Qorxwaon; Naenia typica, common; Anchocelis pistacina, occasion- 

 ally ; A. litura, once ; Orrhodia raccinii, fairl}' common ; yiellinia 

 circellans, a few times; Calyninia afjinis, once, 1899; Hecatera 

 serena, once, 1899 ; Evple.via Incipara, common ; Brotolomia meticulosa, 

 common ; Hadcna chenopodii, common ; H . oleracea, common ; Xylocampa 

 h'thoriza, once, 1899 ; Cxcidlia umhrativa, a few times ; Abrostola urticae, 

 a few times ; H. triplasia, a few times : Plusia gamma, common ; 

 Catocala nupta, common. Deltoides : Hypena lostralis, occasionally ; 

 B. proboscidalis, occasionally. Geometrides : Uraptery.v mmhncaria, 

 common; Hionia crataegata, common; EnnonwH flw///(Z«?7fl, imagines 

 twice and larvfe; Biston hirtaria, common ; Aiuiihidasys hetularia, 

 occasionall}' ; Hevierophila abrtiptaria, connnon ; Boaniiia rhomboid aria, 

 common; Cumibaena bajularia, once, not of recent years; Acidalia 

 incanaria, common; A. arersata, common; Cabera pnsaria, common; 

 Abraxas grossulariata, common ; Hybernia defoliaria, occasionally ; 

 Eupithecia centaureata, K. subnotata, E. ridgata, Melanipjie bicolorata, 

 M. rivata, M. siibtristata, M. fincUiata, fairly common ; Coremia 

 ferriigata, once ; Campjiogravima bilineata, common, Peliirga romitata, 

 fairly common. 



The named forms of Acronicta leporina, Linn. 



By LOUIS B, PBOUT, F.E.S. 



Miss A. M. Cochrane, in some notes on the variation of this species 

 {antea, pp. 100-102), makes the suggestion that var. ("or ab., in »cns. 

 strict.," as she justly observes) vielanocephala, Mansbr., is = var. brady- 

 porina, Tr. This has constrained me to look into the matter, and I 

 find she has " failed to focus " the Treitschkian type, just as did Mr, 

 Mansbridge, at first, to focus the Linnean. What makes this the more 

 remarkable is that she has quoted parts of Treitschke's diagnosis and 

 description, though leaving out some crucial points. As nothing but 

 confusion can result from the attempt to unsettle the correct work of 

 Newman, Staudinger, Tutt and others, I need not apologise for setting 

 the matter straight at once, and I am sure Miss Cochrane will 

 pardon me, since she confessedly does "not pretend to any deep know- 

 ledge of the subject." 



Treitschke's Latin diagnosis of bradyporina is " Acronycta alis 

 «/6idisf;anticis fusco irroratis, punctis nigris, ramosis" {Schmett. Eur., 

 v., pt. 1, p. 9, not "91," as cited by Tutt, Brit. Noct., i., p. 14 ; Tutt 

 quotes accurately excepting the punctuation). Mansbridge's melano- 

 cephala has the " forewings strikingly suffused with fuscous." 



f The italics in this paragraph are mine. — L.B.P. 



