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corded the fact that it impressed me as a distinct and even larger species. 

 It may be that we are already in possession of the final solution of this 

 little entomological mystery, and that Stce. Johannis is really an extraordi- 

 nary variation of grata, captured on the Church door of St. John's, in 

 Horselydown, London, England. But it will nevertheless remain an 

 interesting subject until we find specimens in America of the aberration, 

 which ought to occur there also, or until we send grata pupa across the 

 Atlantic and observe the effects of the " vicissitudes of the voyage." If 

 any of these latter evolve as Stoz. Johannis, the mystery would be solved, 

 and an important phase in the general subject of variation opened up. 

 But I cannot think it. The aberration, if one, must have a cause inde- 

 pendent of the mere voyage. Moisture, temperature, might possibly 

 darken the primaries, but how are we to account for the secondaries, 

 which so far from being "suffused," have no band at all, the usual ground 

 colour obtaining over the whole surface ? Here is a specimen which on 

 the fore-wings is to show the effects of melanism, and on the hind wings 

 of albinism. The type of Stop.. Johannis is, under the circumstances, one 

 of the most extraordinary specimens, I think, in the British Museum col- 

 lection, whatever view we take of the matter, and the question before the 

 American collector now is the range of variability in E. grata, and whether 

 this shows any steps in the direction of a darkening of the fore-wings and 

 obliteration of the marginal band on secondaries. Thus, quite inde- 

 pendent of mere controversy as to the origin of the type, the subject is 

 eminently one for scientific enquiry and experiment. 



Eudryas Cypris, n. s. 



The hind-wings with the fringes are pale vermillion-red ab ove and 

 below, immaculate, without band or markings. Fore-wings beneath of 

 the same red, immaculate. Above the fore-wings have the main central 

 portion creamy, not pure white as in allies, shading inferiorly to ochrey- 

 olivaceous, and there is an olivaceous shade patch over the median ner- 

 vules edged outwardly narrowly with whitish and deepening in colour in- 

 feriorly. A brownish terminal band, best marked superiorly on costa, 

 and showing a lilac reflection. From opposite the cell to anal angle this 

 band is indented by the pale red terminal edge of the wing. The some- 

 what olivaceous iringes show a darker median line. The costal edge 

 towards apices is faintly red. The costal and internal shading recalls 

 grata, but there is less trace of the reniform than in the N. American 

 form ; in cypris the traces of the reniform (perhaps variable) are fragment- 



