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■deeper shade, more or less, is often traversed by a partial or com- 

 plete cloudy, ill-defined narrow, still darker band. (5) The sub- 

 terminal line ill-defined, narrow, cloudy, sometimes scarcely 

 traceable, sometimes emphasised by dark spots, and margined a 

 lighter shade outwardly. (6) Just before the base of the cilia a row 

 of minute deep black dots, usually present. (7) Small pinky, 

 flesh-coloured clouds sometimes present on different parts of the 

 wing. Stigmata : 1. Keniform, outlined faintly, same colour as 

 ground, but a blackish large dot almost invariably present. 2. 

 Orbicular present, but scarcely outlined usually. 



HiNDwiNGs. — Ground : Ochreous suffused with brown, especially 

 towards terminal margin. Smoky-white or smoky-brown with a 

 yellow gloss. Costal region pearly pale yellow. Hind margin 

 widely pale yellow in all lighter specimens. Cilia yellowish-white, 

 darker somewhat in darker specimens. Transverse line : Some- 

 times an ill-defined dusky line across the disc, beyond the middle; 

 smoky discal spot present in the lighter examples. 



Named forms. — Whitish or ochreous grey : f. pallida, Tutt, 

 transverse lines nearly obsolete ; f. trapezina, L., transverse lines 

 distinct ; ab. rnfo- pallida, Tutt, red central band ; ab. niifvo-viri/ata, 

 Tutt, black central band (very rare) ; ab. obsvura, Aur. ; ab. badio- 

 fasciata, Teich. Brightly ochreous, slightly reddish : ab. obsoleta- 

 uchrea, Tutt, transverse lines nearly obsolete ; f. uchiea, Tutt, and f. 

 carnea, Warr., transverse lines distinct. Bright red : f. rufa, Tutt, 

 transverse lines distinct; ab. obsoleta -ni fa, Tutt, transverse lines 

 almost obsolete ; f. (jrisea, Tutt, pale dark grey dusted (greenish), 

 transverse lines darker; ab. nii/ra, Tutt, black, with paler trans- 

 verse lines (very rare) ; i.saturata, Stgr. [exujtia, Butlr.), brownish, 

 hindwing blackish, forewing grey brown ; ab. conspersa, Warr., 

 extra dark nrisea. 



In Mr. R. Adkin's exhibit was a very fine example of the rare 

 ab. nii/ra, in which the pale lines showed plainly, consisting of the 

 pale shade bordering the usual dark lines of the species, they 

 seemed somewhat farther apart than the black lines in normal 

 specimens. 



In Mr. B. Adkin's exhibit was an extremely fine dark banded 

 form, 'ab. nigro-virtiata, Tutt=(?) ab. obscura, Aur. = ? &h. badio- 

 fasciata, Teich. He also showed a specimen with a clear, slate- 

 coloured ground. 



Mr. Step exhibited a living plant of the small yellow 

 balsam {Impatiens parvifiora, D.C.), from a large colony in a green 



