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wings are either obsolete or so washy and slight as to be hardly noticeable. I bred 

 about a dozen of this pretty form from one lot of Nottinghamshire larvae this year, 

 and have also received it from Durham. The nearest figure to it in Barrett is 

 tig. lb on pi. cccxxi. 



e. ab. lutea, Cockerell, "Eut.," vol. xxii., 1889, p. 2. — Markings more or 

 less normal, but all wings suffused with bright yellow. Localities — Essex, London 

 District, Sussex (Angmering), and Lanes. Figured by Barrett, pi. cccxxii., fig. Id. 



f. ab. fulvajjicatfi, milii. — Markings more or less normal, but with the 

 fulvous colour at top of the central median band extending over the pale area at 

 apex of forewings. I have reared a considerable number of this form from 

 Chiswick, Lanes, larvse. 



■)]. ab. alhoiiiaryiiHitd, mihi. — Markings normal, but the series of seven black 

 spots usually found along hindmargin of foi'ewings and hindwings entirely absent. 

 Barrett, pi. cccxxii., tig. 1. ? Locality. 



yiUCd. ab. inekuiozona, mihi. — A very striking Scotch form. Forewings have a 

 black blotch (with slightest trace of yellow) at base. Discoidal spot very black and 

 large, situate in large white central area. On outside of this area and inside the 

 very faint yellow median band is a black fascia, broader at costal margin. The 

 series of black spots outside the yellow band is reduced to four, which nearly 

 coalesce with the black fascia, and are, therefore, really situate in the yellow band. 

 The seven black spots along the hindmargin are strongly developed and confluen*.. 

 Hindwing with a well-defined central black spot and two parallel series of seven 

 strongly -marked spots along the hindmargin, a definite white area separating the 

 two series. Locality — Aberdeen. 



B. Dakk Aberkations. — i. ab. i-arlci/ata, Porritt. — " Black markings amal- 

 gamated so as to form a coijiplete uniform suffusion of the fore- and hindwings with 

 black, except a pure white band across them all at some little distance fi-om their 

 base." — Barrett. Figured by Barrett, pi. cccxxii., tig. Ig, by Newman in British 

 Moths, p. 100, column 1, and by Mosley in Naturaliatx' Journal, vol. iv., no. 31, 

 Jan. 1895, p. 9. Mosley, in loco citato, says that " This form was first reared by 

 Mr. Varley (at Hudderstield), in 1864, and tigui-ed in The Naturalist or that year. 

 He reared eleven of this form, and sold them for £1 each. The same variety has 

 since been bred in some numbers at Wibsey, near Bradford, and at other places. 

 Several have also been taken at large." 



K. ab. hazeleinliensis, mihi. — The whole area of the forewings oetween the 

 two orange bands is filled in with brown-black, the only white markings in this 

 area being two minute specks on the costal margin (about the middle). Median 

 band of a deep orange, and broader where it meets the inner margin. A veiw 

 striking form. Locality — Essex (Hazeleigh). 



X. ab. nhiroKpartiuta, mihi. — Markings more or less normal, but all the wings 

 suffused with minute lilack specks, producing a sooty appearance. Median band 

 generally faint, and of a dull orange. Localities — Essex, Yorks, 8. Wales. 

 Barrett, pi. cccxxii., fig. If. 



^c. ab. xiihviolacca, mihi. — Markings normal, but whole area of all four wings 

 suffused with dusky or brownish-violet, often producing a scorched appearance. 

 Barrett, pi. cccxxii., fig. Ic and pi. cccxxi., tig. It. Localities — Lanes., Notts. 



V. ab. semiviolacea, mihi. — Similar to fx, but hindwings not suffused with the 

 dusky or brownish- violet. Locality- — Kent (Bexley). 



There ai-e no aberrations named in Staudinger's CataUxj, but there 

 are two local varieties, which may, of course, occasionally crop up as 

 aberrations. I have not come across either of these among the 

 numerous British specimens (or illustrations of such) which I have 

 seen, but it seems advisable to quote the descriptions here. 



4". var. rihcdata, Stgr., "Iris," v., p. 161. — "Alls signaturis nigris obsoleti- 

 cribus, maculis in fascia contluentihus. From Fergana in Central Asia " (Stau- 

 dinger and Ilebel, CataUxj, p. S'iS). 



0. var. co)is]iurnit(i. l^utler, "111. Het.," iii., p. 48, pi. 52, fig. 11. — " Maculis 

 nigris conliuentibus, alls posticis area basali nigra. From Japan " (ibid). 



The description of var. rihedata seems too general to admit of easy 

 identification, whilst var. amspKuata would certainly seem to be non- 

 British, as none of our forms (known to me at any rate) have a black 

 basal area on the hindwings. 



