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one of the fore and hind wings of a Tinea. 4. On the hind wing 

 the costal half of the fulvous submarginal band is prolonged 

 imvard toivard the base, invading half of the central series of 

 spots, and obliterating the costal half of the black base. This 

 remarkably striking topomorphic variety I have described from a 

 series kindly lent me by Mr. E. Adkin. I have seen Penarth 

 specimens also in Mr. Tutt's cabinet. The fulvous costal base 

 reminds one of that character in M. didyma. I have not noticed 

 this form in Ireland. Expanse : ^ , 1 in. 5 lines; ? , 1 in. 9 lines. 

 Var. prcBclara, var. nov. Cf. Hiibner, figs. 4, 5 <? , 6 ? . — The 

 second leading form is the one most commonly met with in 

 Ireland, having the red and central pale series very vivid in 

 colour, and the black reticulation darker than the type, and may 

 be thus described : — Ground colour black, strongly and broadly 

 marked, defining the coloured blotches sharply, but not reducing 

 them in number or size. These are of brilliant terra-cotta tint, 

 but the central transverse series (double on the fore wings) are of 

 bright straw-colour. The female with the basal two-thirds of the 

 wings black; the fore wing with the cell red, with a straw-coloured 

 spot at basal end and a quadrate one toward the other ; outside 

 of the discoidal cellule follows a double series of straw-coloured 

 elongated blotches, similar to the central one of the hind wing. 

 On the inner margin two quadrate blotches of same colour. 

 Submarginal red band often suffused a little with yellow. Hind 

 wing with a straw-coloured discoidal spot, a short series of red 

 following to mid-wing, a complete central straw-coloured series, 

 and a submarginal pupilled quadrate series of terra-cotta red, 

 outside of which are the marginal yellow lunules, larger on the 

 hind wing than on the fore wing. The late Mr. Bond used to take 

 this form at Kingsbury, Middlesex. Those taken at Swansea are 

 similar, but somewhat less vivid in colour. The English aurinia 

 run generally somewhat smaller than the Irish. The var. prcsclara, 

 in its richest form, approaches the character of the continental 

 M. maturna. Irish localities : near Golden Ball, Co. Dublin ; the 

 Wicklow Marshes, and Kilavany Wood near Tinahely (Biv.) ; New- 

 bridge, Co. Kildare ; Cappagh (U.) near Lismore ; and Tramore, 

 Co. Waterford ; on a hill 200 feet above the sea-level near Cork, 

 ? var. (Sandford, Ent. xviii. 123) ; Tralong Bog near Glandore 

 (D.) ; Desertserges Station, south side of Bandon E. (L.) ; Black- 

 stairs Mount, Co. Carlow (Af.) ; Skibbereen, Co. Cork ; Ardtully 

 near Kenmare {Miss F.) , and Killarney (B.), Co. Kerry ; Kilpeaton 

 Bog, Limerick, and at Cratloe, Co. Clare (A''.) ; Woodlawn near 

 Galway (A.). This variety is found in Scotland. Specimens 

 from Alford, Lincolnshire, also are in Mr. Adkin's cabinet, but 

 the colours are not quite so vivid as in the generality of Irish 

 specimens, and the pale discoidal spot of hind wing is obsolete. 

 Expanse : Lincoln, 1 in. 7 lines 5" , 1 in. 10 lines ? ; Irish, 1 in. 

 3 lines — 1 in. 8 lines (3^ , 1 in. 7 lines— 1 in. 11 lines ? . 



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