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hood also produced two more Abraxas grossulariata var. 

 Varleyata ; whilst Mr, Butterfield took a very peculiar dark 

 Larentia multistrigaria at Bingley. Amongst noctuae Mr. S. I.. 

 Mosley obtained a very pale and unusual form of Cyniaiophora 

 fiavicornis in the Black Fir Wood, Huddersfield, which seems to 

 be the only variety recorded which was paler than the ordinary 

 type. The variety infuscata of Xylophasia polyodon was taken by 

 myself and others ; an almost jet black specimen from Sheffield 

 being about the best I ever saw. And, lastly, a very beautiful 

 nearly black specimen oi Polia flavocincta was, I believe, the only 

 moth of any description that visited the sugared trees- in the 

 shrubbery adjoining my house on the night of September 17th. 



During the year Mr. Mosley has issued three more Parts 

 (III., IV. and V.) of his " Illustrations of Varieties of British 

 Lepidoptera," which fully sustain the opinion we gave of them 

 last year. The plates of Abraxas grossulariata and A. ulmata 

 contained in Part IV. cannot but be pronounced by every unbiassed 

 judge as exquisite. 



Highroyd House, Huddersfield. 



Trans.Y.N.U., 1870 (pub. 1882). Series D 



