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Notes on Peronea comariana, proteana, and potentillana.—That proteana and 
comariana are only two different forms of one species seems well established by my 
own experience in breeding them. On the 29th of May, 1869, I collected a con- 
siderable number of larvee on Comarum palustre. These I carefully separated, and 
kept the two forms apart, yet from each of these separate batches I bred both 
comariana and proteana. 
Two principal forms of the larva may be thus distinguished—a, with the head 
very pale yellowish-brown, gelatinously transparent and spotted with brown, the 
body whitish-green or greyish-green, with the legs, anal plate and thoracic plate of 
the same colour, the latter margined with black posteriorly ; and b, with the head 
and thoracic plate shining black, the body dirty whitish, with scarcely a tinge of 
greenish, the dorsal line broad, darker grey. 
I also separated some intermediate forms: one almost like a, but the body of 
a fainter, whitish-yellow colour; another resembling a, but whitish-green, with 
faint grey dorsal line, and two sub-dorsal lines, and with the head spotted above 
with very pale yellowish-brown. I had expected to breed comariana from a and 
proteana from b, but I reared both forms from each, and also some intermediate 
varieties. 
Of the intermediate forms of the larve, the first-mentioned produced a 
brownish-yellow proteana (resembling comparana), with black costal spot, the other 
produced a typical pale yellow comariana, entirely without any trace of a costal spot. 
Madam Lienig looked upon preteana (which at that time was not described) as 
a small comparana, and it can only be in reference to this comparana that her con 
jecture arose that comariana might be a variety of that species. Lately I received 
alse from Professor Zeller proteana with the label—comariane, var. 
I have taken comariana at Magnusholm between the middle of July and the 
middle of September. Baron Von Huene took it at Lechts and Tois from the 13th 
of August onwards, and then again on the Ist of April, hence evidently hybernating. 
My bred specimens all appeared in the latter half of June, after a very short 
pupation, so that it is most probably double-brooded. 
In Wilkinson’s British Tortrices (a work which only came into my hands after 
I had completed my Fauna) there is mentioned after comparana, at p. 167, a poten- 
tillana, which, according to the characters there assigned to it, can hardly be any- 
thing else than comariana, Z., although the food-plant of the larva there indicated 
is not Comarum palustre, but strawberry.—J. H. W. Baron Nowcken (translated 
from his “ Lepidopterolegische Fauna von Estland, Livland und Kurland). 
Captures of Lepidopterw in Carmarthenshire.—The following moths are among 
the best of my captures during last season. With the exception of four or five, 
all were taken in my own garden. 
8. ocellatus, common; populi, scarce; A. Atropos, very common; S. ligustri, 
common; D. livornica, one specimen given me at the end of May, and I saw 
another hovering at some flowers a few days after; C. porcellus, one larva; C. 
 Elpenor, common; UM. stellatarum, very abundant; Hepialus sylvinus, scarce; 
M. miniata, common; H. dominula, common; D. mendica, very common, I took a 
female as early as April 20th; E. dolobrasia, scarce; L. tiliaria, scarce; H. abrup- 
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