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Aberrations of Polyommatus vak. artaxerxes. — The foUowinf^ 

 interesting- abervations of /'. arta.vi'r.vca are, in my experience, unique, 

 although I have captured some hundreds of this interesting species: — 



1. All aberration with the bright red marginal spots continuous down the outer 

 margin of both fore- and hindwings, and also with the central spots in the centre 

 of the forewings blue instead of white, a most striking and unusual variation. 

 Specimens occur with the white spots of varying sizes, from entirely obsolete to 

 very large, but I have never seen one with blue spots before. 



2. This aberration is typical artaxer.roi but it has a central white spot on the 

 hindwings as well as on the forewings. This form Mr. Tutt tells me he has already 

 named ab. quadripunctata . 



Both forms are sufficiently unusual here to merit their being 

 recorded. — J. C. Haggart, 58, St. Andrew's St., Galashiels. Jiihf 

 15th, 1902. 



Callimorpha dominula ab. rossica. — On July 20th 1 captured, at 

 rest, on KKfiatoriuiu rcnmabininii, a small, but perfect male specimen 

 of < 'alliiiinrji/ui doitiiitula ab. rossica, whilst collecting along the under- 

 cliff, near Walmer. The ground colour of the hindwings in this form is 

 yellow instead of crimson. I do not consider it to be by any means a 

 rare form, but as it appears scarce in collections possibly deserves 

 recording. Staudinger, in his new ( 'atahxjue, states that, in Armenia 

 and north-eastern Asia Minor, msslca is the permanent form, but 

 elsewhere it is merely an aberration. We find a " yellow" form, ab. 

 lutt'sccits, in ( '.liera, so it is not surprising that C. doiiiinida should possess 

 a "yellow " form in ab. mssicj. 1 may incidentally mention that in my 

 early days of collecting 1 remember a carriage road from Walmer to 

 St. Margaret's Bay, good hunting-ground for insects all the way. Now 

 but a comparative fragment of the roa<l remains, the sea coming close 

 up to the cliffs at high tide for two-thirds of the distance, such is the 

 inroad the sea has made at this part of the coast ! — A. H. -Toxes, 

 F.E.S., Shrublands, Eltham. 



Abkrkatiox of Plebeiuh .FjiON. — Oil July 5th I visited a heath 

 near ("ullompton, in Devonshire, known there as " Gaddon Down," at 

 about G.HO p.m. One corner of it is covered with Arena t^airscnis (?), 

 the flowering heads of which were swarming with P. anion, which bad 

 gone to rest there. I secured about HO specimens without the use of 

 the net, including a specimen which may be described as having 

 the forewings from the base to about one-third along the 

 costal margin and inner margin — normal. From there the colour 

 is a pale bluish-grey, somewhat the colour of a male I'oli/ininnatnx 

 cnrydon only paler. The hindwings are much the same as the fore- 

 wings, but the seven crescentic marginal spots show on the upperside 

 very distinctly as in the female. On the underside the spots are mostly 

 very indistinct, especially on the forewings. I do not know if such a 

 curious instance of albinism is common, /'. anjon seems to be a very 

 invariable insect. — Roxai.d ]\1. Angus, 11, Wentworth Place, New- 

 castle-on-Tyne. July Idth, 1902. 



(CURRENT NOTES. 



In the Aaiiiiairc dn Miisn- Xi>iil,„ii,ii{c dr r Aradrmic hii/nrialt' des 

 Sciences de St. Fetershoiin/, t. vii., 1902, pp. 55-75, Nicolai Adelung 

 contributes a " Beitrag zur Kcnntnis der Paliiarctischen Steuopelina- 



