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tlie exclusion of tree-feeding species, is tte furious violence of the 

 storms which, coming from the Atlantic, rush upon this coast from the 

 south-west with a fury which the trees themselves can barely resist. 

 It follows, therefore, from the scarcity of species, that the number of 

 them which present noticeable variations is proportionately small ; but 

 such as they are, I think them worth recording. 



AnthocJiaris cardamines. — In this species the male is the sex most 

 liable to variation. Last year I recorded a specimen in which the 

 black of the tip of the fore-wings on the upper-side was suffused 

 down the veins, so that half the orange patch was clouded with black 

 atoms. This variety I have been unable again to meet with ; but 

 when looking for it this spring, I took several specimens which showed 

 a tendency in the same direction, the black tip being suffused along 

 its inner margin and slightly down the nervures, instead of being 

 comparatively well defined, as is usually the case. In the female, the 

 only variation beyond what is everywhere observable, consists in a 

 slight increase in the size of the white blotches in the black tip. 



Golias JEdusa. — In this species, as is well known, the female is the 

 variable sex. It has not been very common here, but between June 

 21th and October 13th — its first and last appearances — I picked up 

 about a score. Of these but thi'ee were females. In one the usual 

 yellow spots in the black border of the fore-wings are of only half the 

 usual size ; in the second only three of them are visible, still smaller ; 

 while the third has its border entirely black, except a faint indication 

 of the position of these three spots. In this last specimen the border 

 of the hind-wings is very narrow, the usual pale spots being absent, 

 and the space filled with dusky yellow, like the rest of the wing. 



In the male I find only one slight aberration, which, singularly 

 enough, is in the same direction as that of cnrdamines, the inner edge 

 of the upper part of the black border of fore-wings being suffused 

 into the yellow, and the yellow lines which cross the border, also 

 suffused and lost, giving the apex of the wings a very cloudy 

 appearance. 



Argymiis Selene. — Eather common on the slopes of some of the 

 sea cliffs. In both sexes the ground colour of the upper-side is darker 

 than usual, though not conspicuously so, and the markings on the 

 under-side of the hind-wings are also of a deeper brown. 



Melitcea Artemis. — I have seen but few specimens, and of these 

 the majority of the males resemble those from the South of England, 

 but two or three make some approacl^ in colouring to the beautiful 



