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3. One specimen is of an olive grey with much brown powdering, 
the marking of a deep brown with well developed costal blotches. 
There is no ochreous colour. The brown powdering is very fine and 
the lines clear cut, not fuzzy. 
4, Five specimens in which the general colour is black or blackish 
grey. One is to be put down as ab. monotonia. ‘It is thinly sealed, 
somewhat worn (possibly one of the causes of the semitransparency), 
ground of hindwings the same shade as that of the forewings. The 
veins are opaque black. There are no markings, not even traces of the 
usual costal blotches. The other four are dark blackish (not brownish) 
grey with darker veins. The costal clouds are marked, but most parts 
of the transverse lines are obsolescent, or very indistinct. In forewing 
coloration two specimens are of the same shade, the darkest, the third 
is somewhat lighter, and the fourth somewhat lighter still. The hind- 
wings of three of these are of the same shade of general coloration as 
the forewings, but one of the darkest forewinged specimens has lighter 
hindwings. 
5. Five examples may be termed ochreous in general appearance. 
Three of these are decidedly ochreous, while two are grey with a slight 
tinge of ochreous. Of the three ochreous ones, one is somewhat lighter 
than the other two and has hindwings much lighter than the forewings, 
while the other two have the fore- and hindwings of the same colora- 
tion. The two grey with slight ochreous tinge differ inter se. The 
one has a very slight tinge only, with the two basal transverse lines 
distinct, while the two outer ones are obsolescent except on costa and 
inner margin; the other is darker and more uniform with only slight 
costal clouds, and all the transverse lines obsolescent, or very ill-defined 
in part. In the former the transverse central line of the hindwing is 
well developed, while in the latter it is practically absent. 
In my own cabinet series I had none of the greenish coloration, 
none of the soft grey and none of the blackish. The olive-grey | had from 
West Wickham, Brockley, Richmond, Chislehurst, etc. The light 
ochreous from West Wickham, Chislehurst, Chattenden, etc. In 
addition I have two rieh ochreous specimens, one darker than the other, 
from Brockley and the New Forest respectively, two which are of a 
light, not olive, grey, with ill-defined lines in one and obsolescent lines 
in the other, from Richmond and Delamere Forest respectively, and a 
fine specimen of the Huddersfield race of a deep rich uniform brown- 
black, with hindwings only very slightly thinner in coloration, having 
no markings, but with darker veins and no trace of the costal clouds. 
It seems to be more thickly scaled than many specimens are. 
T have, as will have been noticed, only dealt with the males. This 
series is a very good instance, showing how interesting sets of examples 
of a common species, from various parts of the country, may turn out, 
when brought together and compared. That the above does not exhaust 
the potentiality of the variation in this species will no doubt be noted 
by reference to the reader’s local series, and by a perusal of Barrett’s 
summary, Lep. Brit. Isles.—H.J.1T. 
GXYURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 
The Rev. C. R. N. Burrows and myself have collected a Register of 
all the Localities of which accounts of the Lepidoptera have been 
