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also darker than the ground colour ; others are pale greyish ochreous, with a 

 large dark brown blotch on the inner margin. The palpi are longer than the 

 head, and densely clothed with scales. 



The glossy ochreous-coloured Catoptria Howenwarthiana is now generally 

 common among thistles. It must not be confounded with C. scopoliana, 

 which appeared last month and is still out. The latter has the lower half 

 of the basal patch pale ochreous-hrown, while in Howenwarthiana this portion 

 is pale reddish-biown. The latter species has the reddish-brown central 

 fascia obscurely denned ; both have pearly-edged ocelli. They are both about 

 of a size (8 or 9 lines), but Howenwarthiana is, if anything, the smaller of 

 the two. 



We are sure to find the exceedingly variable Peronaa variegana in rose 

 gardens and about bramble- covered hedges throughout July and August. 

 Generally half the wing is white from the base to the middle, and the other 

 half dark grey. In some specimens the white basal portion is less pure than 

 in others, and is marbled with grey, and has a triangular dark grey spot not 

 far from the base ; the other half of the wing brown, marked with darker 

 shades; then again in other specimens the basal half is cream-coloured 

 instead of white, and in others the dark grey apicial half is blotched with 

 paler. Even this does not exhaust the list of varieties, for we find some 

 specimens uniformly dark grey with blackish markings, and some have th": 

 fore- wings of an ochreous ground colour with two black blotches, one of 

 which is situated on the inner margin, not far from the base, and is triangular 

 in form, the other is very irregular in shape, and is in fact the first half of 

 the central fascia running up into and becoming confluent with the dark 

 costal spot. 



Entomological visitors to the New Forest should look out now for the 

 ochreous Peronaa aspcrsana, which occurs there among salad burnet (Poter- 

 ium sanguisorba) a ad common drop wort (SpircBa fdipendula), while those who 

 on the other hand go to the north are sure to see the reddish-brown Peroncea 

 Caledoniana on the heaths aud moors. Both species are out till September. 



Among sallows we may find Sarrothripa revayana, Ditula semifasciana, 

 Penthina capraana, Grapholita campoliliana, and Euchromia rujrma. The 

 first-named is somewhat local, and is very variable. Some specimens are 

 greenish and others ochreous-grey. The fore-wings are elongate with abruptly 

 arched costal margin and obtuse apex ; the antennae are filiform and the 

 palpi much longer than the head. Ditula semifasciaua is grey with the cen- 

 tral fascia obliquely placed, not straight or nearly straight as in revayana ; 

 it is also a smaller insect expanding about nine lines, while revayana measures 

 as much as eleven lines or an inch. Semifasciana occurs in the South of 



