Hello Everybody!
So, I was uncorrect previously. Because after all I found the book of Tutt on the Internet.
http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/ja…ume-3-hci.shtml
And Tutt writes the followings about T. aurago:
"Xanthia, Tr., aurago, Fab.
This is another most beautiful and most variable species. I am
indebted entirely to the Reading collectors, especially to Mr. Holland,
for my specimens and for notes on the species. The ground colour
varies from the palest yellow, to deep purplish-red, through orange.
The orange-red and purplish-red have both almost unicolorous forms,
but the pale yellow is, so far as I know the species, always banded.
Mr. Holland writes.: "Aurago, here Eeading varies beautifully
but gradually from the pale yellow which is the commonest form
through orange to one uniform purplish colour. From a long series
you might pick out at least five vars., looking distinct enough
represented poorly, but as well as I can now, by the four top specimens
I am sending you, and the extreme purple var. just mentioned " (in
litt. Oct.' 91). Strange to say, I had already divided the specimens I
had by me as Mr. Holland suggested. This was as follows :
IN THE BRITISH ISLANDS. 13
1. Pale yellow, with dark basal and outer bands == aurayo, Fab.
2. Pale orange, with basal and outer bands = var. viryniu.
3. Pale orange, almost unicolorous = var. unicolor.
4. Deep orange-red, with basal and outer bands =-. var. rutilayo,
Fab.
5. Deep purplish-red, almost unicolorous = var. fucata, Esp.
The type is thus described by Fabricius : " Noctua cristata alis
deflexis fuscescentibus : litura baseos fasciaque media late flavis."
" Statura praecedentium (croceayo). Alse anticae basi apiceque fuscaa
litura flavescente. In medio fascia lata dentata flava. Posticse cinerere "
(< Mantissa,' p. 159).
a. var. viryata, mihi. This variety differs from the type only
in having the central fascia of an orange colour instead of pale yellow.
It appears to be as common as the type.
ft. var. unicolor, mihi. This has the dark basal and outer areas
almost obsolete, the orange of the central fascia spreading over and
occupying the whole of the wing space. This is not at all a
common form, the unicolorous varieties usually being more or less
purplish, and inclining to var. fucata.
y. var. rutilayo, Fab. The form with the central area of a deep
reddish-orange colour, is described by several authors under the name
of rutilayo. Guenee writes : " The rutilayo of Borkhausen must be
considered as intermediate between the type and the var. fucata "
(' Noctuelles,' vol. v., p. 394), whilst Hiibner's rutilayo (' Beitraege ' &c.,
vol i., plate 2, fig. L) and his aurayo (' Sammlung europ. Schmet.' &c.,
fig. 196) are orange-red with purplish basal and outer areas. It is
the fucata of Staudinger's 'Catalog,' p. 117 where he writes:
" Magis unicolor, al. ant. fascia media aurantiaca."
8. var. fucata, Esp. This is the unicolorous purplish-red form of
the species and is the exact opposite in development to var. unicolor ;
for whilst the latter is produced by the normal purplish-red of the
basal and outer areas being suppressed and the central orange fascia
spreading over the whole wing area, fucata is produced by the orange
of the central area being suppressed and the purplish-red of the basal
and outer fascia spreading over that area. Although this variety looks
almost unicolorous, the central band is slightly more orange than the
basal and outer fascia, but the difference is very slight. I have such
varieties in my collection. In sending me a var. for examination
Mr. Clarke of Reading wrote : " This is the most extreme dark
variety of X. aurayo taken here " (in litt.). Guenee writes of this
variety : " The median space powdered with reddish and almost
concolorous with the rest of the wing ; the stigmata and transverse
lines almost obsolete. It is found with the type and is no more rare
than its type " (' Noctuelles,' vol. v., page 394). Of Esper's figure I
made the following description : " The anterior wings unicolorous
reddish with the basal and elbowed lines paler " (' Die Schmet. in
Abbildungen ' &c., pi. 124, fig. 3).
c. var. lutea, mihi. A series of aurayo sent for my inspection
from Mr. Chittenden, and captured near Ashford, in Kent, contained
two specimens presenting forms quite new to me. One specimen was
unicolorous, clear yellow- orange, with the exception of fine faint wavy
VARIETIES OF NOOTUJK
reddish lines, almost obsolete, for the basal and elbowed lines, and a very
small amount of darker orange shading on the outer edge of the wing
beyond the subterminal. This form completes the series, for we now
have (1) pale orange, without and with dark bands ; (2) dark orange,
without and with dark bands. I have never seen so perfectly yellow
a specimen before. Var. virgata is the banded form belonging to this
variety. The second was a modification of the Fabrician type, but
had faint pinkish bands instead of the usual dark coloration."
As you can see there is some scanning mistakes. Also in the names.. But it can repair by zipcodezoo.com in worst case. But I have to add the "f. marmorata Warren" name to the list, presumably Warren described this name later, than Tutt's work was publicated. But I know meanwhile (from Ladislauß Reser) at f. marmorata the basis of forewing and the marginal band of forewing is reddish-brown and the middle-ground of forewing is marbly, consists of mixture of lemon-yelloew and orange-brown patches/spots..
So, I have answered my question..
Kornel
