158 THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 



of M. galathea, averagingabout 57 mm. in expanse (females) as against 

 the 50 mm. of the ordinary M. galathea v. iwocida from sandstone and 

 schistose formation on the Bosphorus. Kuchuk Chekmeje is a lime- 

 stone area, seemingly Cretaceous. It was too hot, shade temperature 

 nearly 3 00°, to do much collecting that day, but on the 29th June I 

 visited the ground again and took a few more of each species in spite 

 of a high wind. On July 20th and 27t;h, on the ground where I had 

 discovered hicina on April 20th this year, I caught 4 fresh and 2 

 ■slightly worn specimens of this species, thus, I think, definitely 

 establishing, at all events, its partial double-broodedness in this area. 

 These second brood specimens of the " Duke of Burgundy " were 

 slightly smaller than those of the first brood. On the 20th July I 

 took a very worn female of Lampide^ boeticKn, oddly enough the first 

 time I have caught this ordinarily very common Mediterranean and 

 tropical species near Constantinople. Most insects have been rare if 

 of second broods, or of species emerging in late May, June, or early 

 July, this year ; I refer to such things as the second broods of Celastrina 

 anteros aud Celastrina argiolus wbich latter was for the first time rather 

 uncommon in the Belgrade Forest area in June, and to the Argynnids, 

 except Dnjas pandora, and Satyrids such as P^rarge roxelana, Satyrns 

 circe, etc. I attribute this scarcity to some three weeks of extra- 

 ordinarily cold, wet and windy weather, which followed a fine, dry and 

 early spring. Bithys quercus did not turn up at all. 



Acalla reticulata, Strom. = contaminana, Hub— Its History and 



its Variation. 



By H. J. TURNER, F.E.S. 



Although many previous references and descriptions by older 

 authors may refer to this species, Hiibner is the first author upon 

 whom we can rely with complete certainty as to the identity of the 

 insect indicated by the name contaminana, Hb. (" Tort." fig. 142). 



The following notes were made from the copy of Hiibner's Saml. 

 Tortrices, in the XValsingham Library at South Kensington (B.M.).* 



Hiibner. 8awl. Tortrices, figs, 142, 171, 173. [1797.] 



Fig. 142 is a good average figure of the common contaminana form, 

 but the apex is not produced sufficiently and the hindwings are too 

 dark for an average. 



Fig. 171 is larger than the usual British specimens of the ciliana 

 form, but as to markings the colour is " off." They are dull brown 

 and certainly have no trace or suggestion of ferruginous. The hind- 

 wings of the fig., however, are more nearly correct in being uniformly 

 dirty white or cream than in fig. 142. 



Fig. 173 is a light figure of rliombana of a deeper brown than fig. 

 171, with a complete fascia of about uniform width, and a triangular 

 blotch on the costa, the remains of the other arm of the Y in 

 contaminana. There is no basis of ferruginous as there is in all the 

 numerous specimens referable to rlwmbana which I have seen. Nor is 

 there any suft'usion of the very dark fascous except that the fascia and 



* In dealing with these old hand-colouved books it is necessary to specify the 

 particular copy, as the copies, often coloured to order subsequent to the original 

 issue, vary inter se, and due allowance must also be made for age deterioration. 

 blotch are of that colour. The hindwings are as dark as in fig. 142, 



