NOTES ON COLLECTING. 69: 
light. Several are very uniform with markings almost wholly sup- 
pressed by the ground becoming as deep brown as the markings. In no 
examples are the markings present with any emphasised degree of 
definition except the double lines bounding the submarginal lighter 
band. The transverse central band only in some cases is ‘distinguish- 
able from the general ground. In one or two specimens the blackish 
bar below the stigmata is well marked. The females have the hind- 
wings browner and are larger. This is certainly quite a distinctive 
race. Possibly some of our readers who have more recent series from 
the West will look them up and compare them with the inland races. 
Barrett says, “‘ Not a very variable species inland, but on the coast, 
and especially on the western coasts, it is quite otherwise.” Is this 
so ?—H.J.T. 
Since writing the above I have again referred to Seitz, “ Mac. 
Lep.,” vol. iii., Palaearctic Noctuidae. There is a figure on plate 43, 
named rufa, which is in no way referred to in the text or Index, but in the 
Appendix is stated to belong to testacea. This figure agrees very well 
with the average appearance of the Cornish specimens, so that they 
may be referred to as var. rufa. However, one would like to know 
where the original description of this form occurs and the author of 
the name. Possibly one of our readers can help me with the references. 
—H.J.T. 
Frrip Norrs From Batu, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ‘TmRAS CON- 
TaAMINANA, Hp.—To complete my notes from this district in 1917, L 
may mention that several larve of Hupithecta subfulvata occurred on 
yarrow, under a hedge, at Swainswick, on October 6th, and that a 9 
' Asteroscopus sphinx was found at rest in a hawthorn hedge on November 
11th. She subsequently laid a few ova. Harly in October I took 
several pups of Aealla logiana off Viburnum lantana growing in the 
more sheltered lanes. This was really too late to look for them, as 
many of the dwellings had been rifled by birds (?) and a few pupe had 
already emerged. Probably in the middle of September dozens might 
have been found, as the puckered leaves were abundant. Of those I 
bred, the first appeared on October 6th, and the last on November 12th. 
The specimens vary from unicolorous brown to those with the ground 
colour soft pale grey speckled with rich brown dots, with the usual 
large irregular costal triangle of the same rich tint. Occasionally the 
triangle is broken up into three spots. My few specimens make me 
wish I had gathered the larve at the end of August, then I might have 
bred some really striking forms from the number that might have been 
obtained. 
As this was the first autumn that I ever collected the com- 
mon Acalla (Teras) contaminana, may I say a few words about this 
species. At dusk the imagines fly rather gently over the hedges, 
making short zigzags in their progress, and usually settling after a 
short flight on the leaves or twigs on the outside of the hedge. They 
abounded on every hedge or bush of whitethorn, even in the outskirts 
of the town. On the road towards Combe Hay there is a long row of 
blackthorn, and there is no whitethorn very near, but the moths were 
quite plentiful on the blackthorn, on which their larve: hat probably 
fed. On one occasion I saw a moth of the red-brown variety at rest 
on a red-brown leaf of whitethorn which had exactly the same ground 
