212 CATALOGUE OF MOTHS. 



{Boarmia ahietaria is recorded in the Transactions of the Society 

 (vol. v., p. 9), as having been taken at Muckle Moss on the 

 occasion of a visit of the members there. The record is certainly 

 an error, a dark form of some closely allied species being doubt- 

 less mistaken for it. Ahietaria is exclusively confined to the 

 Pine woods of the south of England. It is true that Stainton's 

 Manual says ''near Dumbarton," and Meyrick's Handbook says 

 "Perth, local." These records have been made in error in years 

 gone by, when distribution of species was less studied, and have 

 been quoted since without investigation, which neither record 

 will bear.) 



(Boarmia consortaria was recorded in a list of captures at 

 Castle Eden Dene, by Mr. J. Wilson, Junr., (Ent. W. Int. vol. 

 vi., page 155). There can be no doubt that the insect taken 

 was Tephrosia crepuscularia. Consortaria is strictly a southern 

 species. The most northerly record is Leicester, and even this 

 has never been confirmed, and is almost certainly an error. 

 Mr. Wilson was evidently not aware that his capture, if cor- 

 rectly named, was a very important one, or he would not have 

 recorded it without making special reference to it. 



It is necessary to call attention to these errors in their places, 

 lest anyone seeing the records might think they had been over- 

 looked here.) 



TEPHROSIA, Bdv. 



26. T. crepuscularia, Haw. Engeailed. 



Tephrosia crepuscularia. Staint. Man., vol. ii., p. 28. 

 ,, biundularia. IN^ewm. Brit. Moths, p. 66. 

 Ectropus ,, Meyr. Hdbk. Brit. Lep., p. 260. 



Laeva. Buck., vol. vii., pi. cxiii., fig. 2; O.Wils.,pl. xix.,fig. 8. 



If Mr. Barrett's idea be correct, that the insects so long 

 known as Crepuscularia and Laricaria, or Biundularia and 

 Crepuscularia, are but forms of one species, we have a very ex- 

 traordinary case to consider. The brown form (^Laricaria of 

 Stainton's Manual), occurs chiefly in Larch woods in March and 

 April ; the grey form in mixed woods in May and June, in very 



