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Pyrenees, including an example of the form without ocelli, ab. 

 ixora, taken at Ille-sur-Tet, Pyrenees Orientales. 



2. M. ineridionalis, Feld,, Chang-Yang, China. 



3. M. lachcsis, Hb., Pyrenees, including the yellow form caniyu- 

 lensh, Obth., also ab. cataleiica, Stgr., with markings suppressed on 

 hindwing beneath, and corresponding to the form lencomelas of 

 (lalathea, from Central Spain. 



4. M. ines, Hffmg., from Central Spain. 



5. M. parce, Stgr., from Tian-Shan. 



6. M. ar;/e, Sulz., from Spain and Central Italy. 



7. M. jiipygia, Cyr., from Spain and Sicily, with its forms 

 sawaroviits, Hbst., from Central and North-Eastern Russia, and 

 transcaspica, Stgr., from Turkistan. 



8. M. larissa, Hb. Gey., from the Balkans, and its western lighter 

 var. herta, Hub. Geg., from Ragusa, Dalmatia. 



Mr, Curwen exhibited species of the same genus and including — 



1. M. galathea, British and continental, including var. procida, 

 from North Italy, a form with obsolescent eye-spots near ab. galene, 

 .and from Spain ab. lencomelas. 



2. M. lachesis, a form approaching ab. cataleuca. 



3. M. larisna var. herta. 



4. }[. titea, from Asia Minor, an unusually strongly marked and 

 small form of this species. 



Mr. Hy, J. Turner exhibited species of the same genus, and 

 including — 



1. M. galathea var. galene, with the eye-spots represented by mere 

 traces, ab. lencomelas^, from the Pyrenees, and a large form from the 

 Balkans approaching var. turcica. 



2. Ji, titea, the usual large somewhat dull species from Asia 

 Minor. 



In his remarks he noted that there was no striking aberration in 

 the whole genus such as occurred in the Vanessids, Pyramein ata- 

 lanta, P. cardtii, etc., but that the whole of the variation might be 

 summed up in the words "extension or diminution of the black 

 coloration in area and intensity and the variation of white to 

 yellow." Various authors had named steps in this continuous line 

 of forms in the species of galathea which perhaps might be thus 

 arranged : — 



Intensity and amount of black, — leKcontelas ; galene; galathea: 

 procida, galaxcera, nicoleti ; syriaca, turcica; nigricans; vielaina ; 

 liigens. 



Size. — syriaca ; galathea ; syracttsana, lucasi {^)na>(reta)iica). 



