THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Vol. XXVI.] SEPTEMBER, 1893. 



[No. 364. 



8PIL0S0MA LUBRICTPEDA var. ZATIMA. 

 By Richard South. 





Fig. 2. 



Fig. 1. Form of Spilosoma lubncipeda intermediate between var. zatima and 

 type. Fig. 2. Var. deschangei, Depuiset. Both enlarged one-sixth. 



This form of Spilosoma luhricipeda, which is considered by 

 many continental entomologists to be a distinct species, was 

 figured by Cramer in 1781 as Noctua zatima (Pap. Exot. iv. 

 pi. ccclxxxi. fig. f). The specimen represented was said to be 

 from Surinam, but this was probably an error. In the year 1863, 

 about a dozen examples of zatima were taken one day during 

 May in Heligoland, and since that time most of the continental 

 collections have been supplied with this interesting form of 

 S. luhricipeda, either direct from Heligoland or from the semi- 

 domesticated descendants of stock from that island. Milliere 

 (Icon. pi. xlix. figs. 5, 6, 7) figures a male and a female of this 



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