b THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 



between the base and the border. Underside forewing pale ochreous-yellow, 

 with black-brown costal spots. Basal half of hindwing clouded with blackish." 

 Tutt, Brit. Butts., 189(3, p. 336, says, "Ground colour not reddish as in 

 the type, but of a dark ochre-yellow." 



ichnusa, Bon., " Descr.," t. 3, fig, 2; Dup., i., 23, 4; B., loc. cit., 24, 2; Hb,, 840; 

 Tr., X., 1, 21 ; Ebr., "Ann. S. Fr.," 1832, t. 7, fig. 3 (saturatius fulva, al. 

 ant. mac. duabus med. nullis) = deeper tawny, the two median spots on the 

 forewings being absent, 



ichnmoides, Selys, "Cat. Lep. Belg.," 1837, p. 18'; " Compt. Eend. Soc. Ent. 

 Belg.," 1874, p. 37; Lambrieho, ib., "Ann.,"xxi. (1878), p. 9, t. 1, figs. 4, 5 (al. 

 ant. maculis 2 et 3 costal, conjunctis, mac. med. nullis, subt. obscurior) = second 

 and third costal blotches on forewings coalescing, no median spots ; underside 

 more dusky than usual. 



ladakensis, Moore, "Ann. and Mag." (5), i.. 1878, p. 227; " Yark. Miss.," p. 2, 

 t.l,fig.2; Nicev., "Butt. Ind.," ii., p. 234 (minor, al. fasc. exter. flava; al. ant. 

 sine mac. caerul.) =a small form, with yellow outer margin ; no blue spots on 

 forewing. 



m^?-ioa r/a.deMoffarte, "Miscell.Ent.," Oct. 1,1895, p. 122, "with black hindwings." 

 Eedescribed and figured by Haverkampf, " Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg.," xlviii., p. 186, 

 tab. 1 (1904:) = 7iigra, Tutt, Brit. Butts., 1896, p. 335. Hindwings entirely black 

 = nigrita Fickert," Journ. Wiirttemberg Nat. Hist. Soc." (Stuttgart, 1897, p. 68). 

 Hindwings entirely brown-black, with merely slight traces of yellowish marginal 

 spots (Fickert, "Jahresb Ver. Nat. Wiirtt.," liii., pi. Ixviii [1897], obviously 

 = ni(jra of Tutt), and is apparently the result of a temperature experiment. 



nixa, Grum., "Mem. Bom.," iv., p. 426; Elihl, 354 (mac. caeruleis anter. 

 subnullis, al. post, margine exter. latiore) = forewings with blue spots almost 

 obsolete ; hindwings with broad outer margin. 



osborni, Donck., " Feuille des jeunes Nat.," xi., p. 33, pi. 1, fig. 4. — Tutt, Brit. 

 Butts., 1896, p. 336, says, "The black costal spots of the forewings, with 

 a broad ochre -yellow edging, form a single long and broad stripe, stretching 

 from the outer margin to the basal area. The outer margin ochre-yellow 

 with black stripes, in which both the small black spots and the upper half 

 of the inner marginal blotch are absorbed. Hindwings brown, with ochre- 

 yellow inner margin. The outer margin of the ground colour, the blue 

 marginal lunules very pale (in the forewings absent)." 



polaris, Staud., " Cat.," ed. 2, p. 16. Urticae, Staud., " Stett. e. Z.," 1861, p. 345 

 (al. ant. mac. dors, cum mac. cost, saepius conjunctis, obscurior) = forewings 

 generally having dorsal and costal spots united. A dusky form. 



pygmaea, Eiihl, " Gross Schmett. Pal.," i., p. 778 — Tutt, Brit. Butts., 1896, 

 p. 336, says, " Small, half-fed examples. This form bears the same relation 

 to A. urticae, that ab. ioides does to V. io.'^ 



rizatia, M(5ore, " Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.," 1872, p. 559; Nicev., loc. cit., p. 234 

 (sequ. var. similis sed major) = similar to the following variety {caschmirensis), 

 but larger. 



sahuonicolor, Eaynor, "Ent. Eec," xviii., 298. "With salmon ground colour." 



$6lysi, Donck., " Feuille des jeunes Nat.." xi., p. 33, pi. i., fig. 42. — Tutt, Brit. 

 Butts.," 1896, p. 336, says, "Differs from urticae in the smaller size of the 

 inner marginal blotches of the forewings, in the complete failure of the black 

 spots, in the three costal blotches of the forewings not being edged with 

 yellow, in the faintness of the blue lunules in the outer margin of the 

 forewings, and in the complete failure of the same on the hindwings. 



turcica, Staud., "Cat.," ed. 2, p. 16; "saturatius fulva, " = deeper tawny. Tutt, 

 Brit. Butts., 1896, p 335, says, "Intermediate between typical V. urticae 

 and var. ichnusa in colour ; the inner marginal spot, and two central spots, 

 are absent" = turcicoides, St&ud. = urticoides, Alph., "Iris," vii., p. 303 

 (eadeiu cum praecedente, sed duplo minor) = same as preceding (turcica) but 

 only half its size. 



urticoides, Fisch. v. W., "Ent.," v., p. 123 (1851). — Staudinger says "Forma 

 pygmaea " = a small form. Tutt, Brit. Butts., 1896, p. 336, says, 

 "Extraordinarily small (only 29-34mm.), brilliantly coloured, and somewhat 

 intermediate between var. turcica and the type." 



In the subjoined scheme, or table, I have analysed, and arranged 

 accordhig to their position, the above-named varieties, placing them 

 in the left column, and opposite to them I have placed 30 aberrations 



