hi BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



Angmering are rather dark, with the light area well defined (Doll- 

 man) ; males from Bognor vary considerably in the width of the 

 yellowish band (Trimen) ; a male with nearly colourless hind wings 

 from Eastbourne (Prout) ; an aberration with angulated hind wings 

 (Agassiz) ; Johnson reared a $ from Stockport, the base of each 

 wing thickly covered with dark scales, but these rapidly decrease in 

 quantity towards the centre, leaving a very broad band, almost 

 entirely devoid of scales round the outer margins of the wings ; the 

 fringes, however, are perfect and distinct; the larva was collected in 

 1895, the imago emerged June, 1896. Adkin describes a similar 

 female, in which the outer half of each wing is devoid of scales, 

 but with fringes perfectly developed ; Kershaw notes, in 1869, a 5 

 from Ashton-under-Lyne with transparent wings and brown fringes, 

 also a bred male almost black in tint and only barred on the 

 upper wings. Frings records a very small female obtained in 1888 

 from the Alps, which had small forewings and almost unsealed 

 hindwings. Newman has a male with the forewings entirely of a 

 dull smoky colour, the transverse band also dull brown, and the 

 hindwings of a very distinct pale brown (bred from a Darenth 

 larva); Edelsten notes a $ aberration at Enfield with the hind- 

 wings yellow from band to fringe, and Dale says that females bred 

 from Polegate larvae vary so that scarcely two are of the same tint, 

 and, in 1878, one was bred nearly as dark as a male; whilst Lei vers 

 observes that the males from Notts are normal in tint, but the 

 females vary considerably in the depth of the ground colour. 

 Arbuthnott notes a $ of var. callunae, taken July 16th, 1897, at 

 the head of Glen Rosa, Isle of Arran, with the coloration of the 

 male; and Hewett records another 2 callunae exactly of male color- 

 ation, having the spots and yellow bands as in $ , but with body 

 and antennae of ? , to which sex it assimilates in size : a similar 

 specimen being in the " Capper " collection. He writes that " the 

 $ s in the York district appear to be decidedly more variable than 

 the $ s ; three males with yellowish-white bands (?==ab. alpina) also 

 taken, but not in good condition ; one female uniform straw- 

 colour, another without yellow band to hindwings, and a male also 

 without yellow band to hindwings ; all the examples captured on 

 Rhombald's Moor." With regard to dubious callunae forms, Nichol- 

 son writes that those from the heaths at Ringwood are intermediate; 

 Burrows notes the Penzance males as inclining to the var. callunae 

 form, and Studd that the Oxton specimens have all the characters 

 of var. callunae, but never go over to a second year, and are never 

 found on bramble but always on whitethorn. Porritt separates the 

 type as a coast form in Yorkshire and Lancashire, and var. callunae 

 as a moorland form. Briggs observes that the Lynmouth examples 

 are in appearance a fine, well-marked form of var. callunae, but that 

 they have the L. quereds habit; he bred a ?, July 21st, 1S99, to 

 which, on the 23rd, a J was attracted; he also captured $ s on 

 August 2nd, 1898, and July 28th, 1899; Bacot notes with regard to 

 this that on the moors above and about 6 miles from Lynmouth he has 

 taken larvae in August that pupated and passed the winter as pupse and 

 emerged in early June of the following year, i.e., with definite callunae 

 habit. Heinemann notes {En/., ii., p. 236) a pair of (juercus that 

 are intermediate between typical /.. qutreds and var. callunae, the 



