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wing, of the " schmidtii" co\o\M'. A very fine variety with llie usual black spots 

 very faint, and tlic disc of fore-wings, and subniarginal band of hiud-wiiigs, a 

 ])cculiar pale buff colour with only a slight coppery tint. A fine ? lias the ground 

 dull copjjer, whitish towards the anal angle of fore-wings, and another of the same 

 sex is light dull brown with hardly any metallic tinge, but the black spots large and 

 clear. Two specimens have the subniarginal copper band of hind-wings reduced to 

 one or two clongal-e dashes, and a curious-looking ^ lacks the subniarginal black 

 spots on fore-wings. Several approach (he dark ab. e/eux, h\, and one is a very 

 well marked example of that form. 



Polyommattis alsus, L. — One or two from Dover, ahnost immaculate beneath. 



Lyaena bsetica, L. — Two examples ; a (? in fair condition, but badly set, 

 "From J. Gr. Eoss, 18S2, who had it from boy who touk it in Devonshire" 

 (C. W. D.), "Dartmouth " at side. Another ^ , under-side, in fair condition, on 

 a large common pin, " Hllon, Triii. Coll., Cainb." ; " Andovcr" at side. 



Pohiommatus crc/v, W. V. — A ver}' fine series of 19 specimens, including several 

 from Glanvilles Wootton. One <? " From J. G. Eoss, 1878 " (C. W. 1).), is labelled 

 at side " Cardiff." A fine S luis the ocelli on under-side very conspicuous, enlarged 

 and somewhat elongated, and in another S lliey are almost absent. 



roli/omniatus arion, L. — Fifteen specimens, chiefly from Barnwell Wold and 

 Langport, Somerset. U'wo have the black spots on upper-side nearly obsolete, and 

 in another way they are much enlarged and elongated. 



" Polyommatiis alcon, Stcph., var." — Under this name is a specimen set to 

 show the under-side, very old, but quite good, except that the abdomen is missing. 

 On a triangular label is " Alcon, Hub., 2(515, W. J.," and at side " n. I'edford." 

 The reference in C. W. Dale's " Eegister " is " var. alcon, Stcph , from Mr. llaworth, 

 ir. Jones, Cliefden, Bucks." Whatever the origin of the specimen, it is almost 

 certainly not a variety of arion, but agrees in every particular with specimens of 

 LycH'H'i alcon, F., in the Oxford Museum and in my own collection. CJ. Stephens, 

 111. Uaust. T, p. 68. 



Lycicna ar()iade!i,V-<\\\.— k ])air in good order; the $ lias a circular ticket, 

 " Dr. Marsh, 1874, Whatley " ; the ? , " Whatley, Somerset," at side. These would 

 appear to be the specimens recorded by the Ecv. J. Seymour St. John, in " Entomo- 

 logist," vol. xviii, p. 292 (1885). 



Polyommatun doryla.i, Uubn.— One <J , set to show the under-side, in fine con- 

 dition, on a modern English pin leaning very much forward as is the practice with 

 many English Lepidopterists. The label is very illegible, but appears to read 

 'Burney's Sale, 1893, from Cooke, Zoologist, 8402 " (C. W. D.). At p. 8402 of 

 the " Zoologist " is a note from Henry Doublcday, dated January 12th, 1803, as 

 follows : — " Mr. Cooke, of Oxford Street, recently detected two specimens of this 

 species among a number of Adonis taken in England which he had purchased. 

 One of these I have seen and it is certainly L. dorylas, and now that attention has 

 been called to it, the insect will probably be met with in the coming summer." 

 IVIr. Dale's specimen is in all respects identical with Ijycxna hyJns, Esp. (= dorylas, 

 Iliibn.), of which species a specimen, " caught at Dover on 7t]i September, 1902," 

 was exhibited by Mr. Sloper at the meeting of the Entomological Society of 

 London on October 15th of the same year (Proc. Ent. Soc, 1902, p. xxsii). The 



