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abundant species in my collecting grounds) have a pale ground colour 
like the Aberdeen specimens more or less ; but a considerable minority 
have a greyish, some almost blackish, suffused appearance. I think the 
southern form is rather of a brownish shade ? — T. J. Henderson, 
Glasgow. 
Scandinavian varieties of British Species. — The following 
varieties of British species are described in the Entomologisk Tidskrijt, 
1890, pp. 201, 202, by Enzio Reuter: — Zonosoma punctaria^ L. ab. 
hifuscata. The wings of a dull colour with a sooty coloured fascia, more 
densely spotted on each side, the underside of a suffused red, not so 
fuscous, with the central part of the upper area of the anterior wings 
deeply s iffused with liver-colour. Ab. arcufera (with figure). The 
anterior wings with the almost central fascia strongly arched in its 
lower fourth, extending from the discoidal cell ( ? ). Thyatira batisy 
L. ab. confliiens (with figure). The superior wings with the base and 
central area of a dull reddish white ; a semi-oval, dull, olive-fuscous 
spot on the costal margin before the centre ; from this, almost to the 
hind margin, sparingly sprinkled with fuscous dots, and with a dull 
obsolete fascia ; the apical (outer) third decidedly olive-fuscous adorned 
with the typical spots but with the posterior one much more obsolete 
than in the type ; the cilia unicolorous fuscous. The posterior wings 
as in the type, but the pale median fascia paler ; abdomen whitish ( $ ).” 
— J. W. Tutt, Westcombe Hill, S.E. 
Erratum. — Page 36, lines 3 and 4 from top of page, for Dianthacia 
capsincolay read Fidonia conspiciiata. 
^fOTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 
Pachetra leucophcea bred, with Description of Larva and Pupa. 
— As I have recently had the pleasure of rearing this moth — a pleasure 
emphasised by various unsatisfactory failures with other species — a 
note thereon may be interesting. I received at the end of June, 1890, 
ten larvae which had just passed their first moult. They were the pro- 
duct of Kentish eggs, and I was indebted for them to the kindness of 
Mr. \V. R. Jeffrey. I fed them throughout on Poa annua ; they soon 
fed up and passed their second moult, and on July i8th had all com- 
pleted the third change. On July 23rd two had already moulted a 
fourth time, and thereafter they did not keep together. They all pro- 
gressed very slowly after this date, one larva moulting later than the 
others, appeared to reach the last skin on fourth moult about August 
22nd. The others moulted (fifth moult) into last skin during Septem- 
ber. From this date they progressed still more slowly, but seemed full- 
fed at end of October. They still, however, often ate a little. During 
this period five of them died (sickening, ceasing to eat, and shrinking 
till they died). They were kept in a cold room, but did not experience 
any freezing temperature. On January 25th, on the frost giving, the 
five that were still alive and eating occasionally were brought into a 
warm room, when three at once spun up on January 29th, 30th 
and 31st; a fourth spun on February loth, having fed a good deal in 
the interval ; the fifth continued eating, but did not look robust ; it 
