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Show 512 MR. J. H. LEECH ON THE [Nov. 19, All the markings are subject to slight modification but the M-shaped mark referred to by Mr. Butler in his description of this species varies considerably: thus in two examples the extremities alone remain distinct and these are connected by a very fine dark line ; in another specimen the mark is replaced by a large quadrate black spot, and in a fourth the bar is contracted in the middle so that it forms two triangles whose apices are contiguous. Yokohama (Jonas, Pryer, Manley). 170. TEENIOCAMPA MUNDA. Noctua munda, Esp. Schmett. iii. pi. 52. figs. 5, 6; (lota) Hiibn. Noct. fig. 166. Orthosia munda, Hiibn. Verz. Schmett. p. 229. n. 2293 ; Treit. Schmett. v. 2. p. 208. Teeniocampa munda, Guen. Noct. i. p. 356. Teeniocampa munda, var. immaculata, Staud. Cat. p. 114 (1871). A fine series, coll. Pryer. The majority of the specimens are larger than European T. munda. The series includes one example of the var. immaculata. Yokohama (Pryer, Manley) ; Yesso (Pryer). 171. TcENIOCAMPA GRACILIS. Noctua gracilis, Fabr. Mant. Ins. p. 148 ; Hiibn. Noct. pi. 35. fig. 168. Orthosia yracilis, Treit. Schmett. v. 2. p. 217. Teeniocampa gracilis, Guen. Noct. i. p. 355. Teeniocampa ella, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) i. p. 167 (1878) ; 111. Typ. Lep. Het. ii. pi. xxx. tig. 7 (1878). Several specimens, coll. Pryer. There appears to be a pale form and a dark form in Japan as in Europe, but the palest Japanese specimen I have is not quite so light as some of m y European examples ; whilst, on the other hand, I have not yet seen a specimen from Europe as dark as the darkest Japanese example in Pryer's series of T. gracilis. Butler's figure of T. ella represents a specimen which as regards tone of colour is intermediate between the two just adverted to. Yokohama (Jonas, Pryer) ; Europe. 172. TcENIOCAMPA INSTABILIS. Noctua instabilis, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 151. fig. 3 ; Hiibn. Noct. pi. 35. fig. 165. Teeniocampa instabilis, Guen. Noct. i. p. 350. Var. Teeniocampa evanida, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) iv. p. 362(1879). Five specimens, coll. Pryer. Four of these Japanese examples are larger than any European specimen I have seen of T. instabilis, but the fifth is of the normal size. In colour all the five specimens are pale, but I have an example |
