Quail. — On Epalxiphora axenana. 345 



a. Anterior wings : Ground-colour pale-yellow with greenish 

 hue, markings pale-green, inner marginal lunar mark surrounded 

 with dark-fuscous. Not common. 



(3. Anterior wings : Ground-colour reddish-yellow, markings 

 ferruginous, the whole therefore having a reddish hue. Not 

 common. 



y. Anterior wings : Ground-colour as type but less distinct 

 on lower area, markings dark - fuscous without greenish hue, 

 anal patch coppery-brown. A very handsome form ; not common. 



The following I prefer to term " aberrations " rather than 

 " varieties," since one needs to breed from ova a larger proportion 

 of any given form to term it a definite variety, otherwise sub- 

 species. 



Ab. albo-suffusa, n. ab. Fig. 2. 



Anterior wings : Markings longitudinally divided from inner 

 base to apex, the line of division deeply dentate at f ; ground- 

 colour white above, at I costa a dark greenish brown elongate 

 transverse spot ; a very faint costal mark at J, costal streak 

 at § to near apex is fuscous mixed with lighter ; lower half 

 similar to type of markings ; colour fuscous posteriorly dusted 

 with white, nervures thinly marked, marginal lunar mark dis- 

 tinct. Some specimens are suffused with white over a larger 

 area restricting the anal patch, the dark costal mark at |- normal ; 

 inner margin has thin fuscous basal streak to lunar mark wider 

 beyond and shading to grey at outer margin. Some have inner 

 colour coppery. 



Ab. brunnei-lineata, n. ab. Fig. 3. 



Anterior wings : Dark fuscous streak extends from base to 

 below apex, with a parallel line above it of reddish-yellow ground- 

 colour heightening the linear effect, being suffused with fuscous 

 on costa, with normal fuscous costal marks ; below the coiour 

 is suffused with dark - fuscous from base to lunar mark and 

 beyond. Posterior wings grey, with posterior reddish hue. 

 One specimen. 



Ab. purpurascens, n. ab. Fig. 4. 



Anterior wings : Pattern composed of two colours separated 

 by an almost straight dividing-line from base to near apex ; 

 costal area is unicolorous, pale-yellow (bone-colour), costal marks 

 faintly dusted in grey ; lower area is purplish-red, marginal 

 lunar mark scarcely perceptible. Cilia reddish-yellow. A spe- 

 cimen has pale fuscous costal marks, lower area of wing deep- 

 purplish-black with some indistinct markings. Rare ; three 

 specimens. 



