552 BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



unicolor. Alis reversis ex luteo-ferrugineis, unicoloribus. Habitat in Japygia D. 

 Mann. Descr : Magnitudo media. Antennae setaceas breves. Thorax pilosus. 

 Alse omnes integerrimae, ex luteo-ferrugineae. 



Prout says : The figure may very well represent the unicolorous ? 

 of M. neustria. Schlager refers it to M. franconica, but Werneburg 

 (ii., p. 152) says the insect appears to him to be too stoutly built and 

 the wings too broad for the latter, and he suspects that Cyrilli had an 

 unicolorous ? M. neustria before him. He further suggests that it 

 may even be the same example that Fabricius later described as 

 ferruginea, for Fabricius received his example from Italy, from Signor 

 Allioni. 



6. ab.pyri, Scop., "Ent. Cam.," p. 199 (1703).— Phalaena pyri. Long. lin. 7J, 

 lat. 5. Cinnanomaea (sic); dorso tomentoso ; alis anticis supra strigis duabus pallidi- 

 oribus, posticis snbtus limbo pallidiore. In Pi/ro reperta larva, ejusque foliis 

 enntrita, ut et foliis Populi albac. Antennas alis concolores. Dorsum denso villo 

 tomentosum, nee tamen cristatum. Alae deflexas ; anticas striis binis paleaceis, 

 quarum postica margini externo parallela, margo idem lineolis binis albis notatus. 

 Sub his alis strigas nullae. Larva superne nigra ; linea dorsali et laterali glaucis, 

 quibus adjacet linea alia fulva ; capite glaueo ; punctis duobus nigris. Folliculus 

 duplex, albus, tenuis, oblongus (Scopoli). 



t. var. parallela, Stdgr., " Stett. Ent. Zeit.," xlviii., p. 98 (1887) ; Kirby, 

 "Cat.," p. 839(1892); Auriv., "Iris," vii., p. 139 (1894).— The central Asiatic 

 form differs from the European specimens not very strikingly, but yet constantly 

 enough to be quoted as a local form. I possess a male and two females found at 

 Samarkand from middle to end of June, a worn male caught June 18th at 

 Namangan, and two apparently bred pairs from Issyk-Kul. I also refer to this 

 form two pairs from north Persia. The males of this form are all more or less 

 dark brown, an unusual colour for the species in Europe. The females are yellowish, 

 with darker central bands on forewings, as is common in European specimens, but 

 the two north Persian ? s are similarly coloured to the dull brown males with 

 yellow transverse lines. On the other hand, the hindwings of all the ? s are more 

 or less brown. The most striking feature of this variety is, however, the form of 

 the two (light or brown) transverse lines of the forewings, which enclose a central 

 band ; the two lines are almost parallel, being externally somewhat convex, a 

 character not exhibited by any example of my long series of this insect from dis- 

 tricts extending from Andalusia to the Amur district. Alpheraky has already noted 

 a male from the Kuldja district as small and entirely dark brown (Staudinger). 



Alpheraky notes (Bom. Mem., vi., pp. 16-17) the capture of a single 

 male on the banks of the Khardjitai in Orclos, on August 19th, 1884, 

 the wings uniform pale yellowish-grey, the two median lines, scarcely 

 wavy, are almost parallel and very widely separated. It is thus, he 

 says, a form which, except in its pale colour, appears to come near var. 

 jKirallela, Staud., and is at any rate very different from the European 

 specimens with which he has been able to compare it. 



k, vai'testacca, Motsch., " Et. Ent.," ix., p. 32 (1860) ; Leech, " Proc. Zool. Soe. 

 Lond.," 1888, p. 627; Kirby, "Cat. Lep.," p. 839 (1892). — Clidocampa testacea, 

 Motsch., figura C. nenstriae, sed minor, dilutior, alis anticis apice longioribus, 

 angulis magis prominulis, margine postico vix arcuatis. Exp. al. 10 lin. (Motschulsky). 

 Localities: Nagahama, Nagasaki, Gensan (Leech), Yokohama, Oiwaki (Pryer), 

 Kiukiang (Pratt), Corea, Kobe, Kormiloff, Port Lazaref (Fletcher). 



Leech unites testacea with neustria, and states that he took specimens 

 at Nagasaki in June, and at Gensan in July. These, with a number 

 from Fryer's collection, make up a good series, exhibiting much variation , 

 but nothing calling for special notice. Fletcher adds that he found 

 the insect just emerging at Kobe on June 11th, 1897 ; the cocoons 

 very common, made up under the eaves or on the walls of houses. 

 Afterwards abundant at Gensan, in Corea, on July 8th-9th, but at 

 Kormiloff, from July 13th-2-ith, in incredible abundance, coming to the 

 upper-deck (electric) lights literally in thousands — forty and fifty 



