100 I May, 



fore-wings fused into a long black blotch, and the black dorsal blotch much elon- 

 gated towards the hind-margin, which is broadly dark, the subraarginal blue spots 

 being entirely absent ; the hind-wings, except for a narrow pale hind-niai-gin, are 

 quite black. A very pale example, " Hudleigh Salterton, May, 1863, E. R. Dale," 

 and anotlier, very old and in worn condition, with pale ochreous-brown ground- 

 colour, " From Rev. H. Burney coll., 1893 " (C. W. D.). One with the ground- 

 colour pale madder-brown, the usual yellow costal spots of the same tint, " Newport, 

 1900." 



T'anessa e-album, L. — A very fine variety, quite parallel with var. ichnusoides 

 of V. urticm, having the two outer costal spots of fore-wing enlai'ged and confluent, 

 the discal spots absent, and the hind-wings much suffused with black. This appears 

 to have been taken by the Rev. F. O. Morris in 1810 at Retford, Notts. A ? is 

 as pale above and beneatli as the S. European /'. egea, Cr. One specimen is 

 labelled " Glanvilles Wootton, Oct., IS16," and another, a ? , " I of W., 1860." 



Vanessa poli/ch7oros, Jj. — One 9 ; '""ch suffused and irroi'ated with brownish, 

 giving the insect a rather dull ajipoaraiice, and with the usual black spots of the 

 fore-wings replaced by dark brown. " From J. Q-. Ross coll." (C. W. D.). 



Argynnis paphia, L.— Two S S from the New Forest, with pale blotches in 

 the centre of all the wings ; one <? , rather crippled, much suffused with blackish 

 towards the hind-margins. A very fine ? aberration, having the black markings 

 (with the exception of the one nearest the base) in the cell, and the whole of the 

 central spots of the fore-wings suffused into a large irregular black blotch. This 

 butterfly, which is in wonderfully good preservation considering its age of over 

 a century, bears two labels, "From Donovan's Colin., taken in ISOi"; and 

 ''S.Stevens coll., 1900" (C. W. D.). An extraordinary aberration, recorded by 

 the late Mr. J. Jenner Weir as having been taken in the New Forest by Charles 

 Gulliver in 1880 (Entom., vol. xiii., p. 206). In this specimen both gynandro- 

 morphism and dimorphism are combined, the left side being quite normal c? , the 

 right side V > with both wings, especially the fore-wing, a little crippled and reduced 

 in size. The ground-colour of the fore- wing is rather pale olive-brown (as in some 

 of the lighter examples of valezina), with a bright fulvous dash along the costa for 

 about one-third of its length from the base. The hind-wing is longitudinally 

 divided through the cell and along the fourth nervure into two sharply defined 

 areas, the costal area being of the bright fulvous colour of the <J , the inner marginal 

 area being of normal valezina colour. The under-side, though exhibiting the 

 corresponding sexual differences as above, otherwise departs but little from the 

 normal type. Labelled " From J. G. Ross collection " (C. W. D.). 



Argynnis adippe, L. — Two examples of the var. cleodoxa, Ochs., one old, on 

 very old pin, but in good condition, without label ; the other. " e mus. Dr. Abbot " 

 (J. C. D.), and labelled also " Bedford " at side. Dr. Abbot's insects were purchased 

 by J. C. Dale in 1817 ( cf. London's Magazine of Natural History, vol. Ill, p. 333). 



Argynnis aglaia, L. — One $ with the spots in cell enlarged, and the central 

 area of foro-wings rather strongly suffused with black ; labelled at side, " n. Bed- 

 ford," and probably one of Dr. Abbot's specimens. A curious small, suffused- 

 looking (J , m rather poor condition. " Arg. charlotta, var. Blackpool, Aug., 1843, 



