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places, so that the whole area of the wings aj^pears reddish tawny ; 

 there are other forms intermediate between these two. [Is not this to 

 a large extent sexual ? — Ed.]. 



An/i/nnis papliia. — The type occurs abundantly at times on the 

 outskirts of Bagley Wood, but var. valezina has not yet been taken at 

 Oxford. A large <? was taken there early in 1893, which is almost 

 I in. wider in expanse than any other specimen which I have seen. 



Arr/i/nnis adippc. — Out of a very long series of this butterfly taken 

 at Bagley Wood, at Sj)latts and Lower Woods, Gloucestershire, and in 

 other localities, only one specimen differs from the rest ; this approaches 

 var. clcodoxa, Och. and in it the spots, although they are distinct on the 

 hind-wings, yet lack the silvery colour which characterises them in the 

 remaining specimens being, instead, of a dullish tawny colour. The 

 var. clcodoxa is totally devoid of the silvery spots, 



Argijnnis euphrosync. — A beautiful example of this species was 

 captured by me in Bagley Wood in 1893, in which the upper sides are 

 smeared with black blotches that cover the whole of the Avings, the 

 bi'ownish colour only showing itself in small triangular-shaped spots, 

 at the extreme edges of the wings ; it resembles the variety figured liy 

 Mr. Barrett (/. c, pi. 25, fig. 2b) but is more suffused with black than 

 that. 



Melanargia galathea. — A specimen referable to var. procida, Hbst. 

 was taken in August, 1893, at Change Cliff, Cotswold Hills, which 

 appeared to have just emerged ; it must have been a late individual, as 

 another specimen captured a few days before was very much worn 

 and seemed to have been on the wing for a considerable time. Proct'da 

 is found in Turkey, Armenia, Syria and the Mediterranean region, 

 Spain excepted (Stgr. Cat., II., p. 27). The species is very rare in the 

 vicinity of Oxford, being found only, so far as I have ascertained, at 

 Holton Stone Pits, near Wheatley ; in 1891 it was unusually abundant 

 on the hills between Wantage and Farringdon and at Childrey, Berks. 



Satyrns semele. — Amongst a number of specimens taken at Bourne- 

 mouth, in 1892-3, I notice one which closely approaches var. aristaens, 

 Bon., whilst a number of others incline to this form. According to 

 Staudinger, var. aristaem is found in Corsica, Sardinia, and on some 

 parts of the coast of the Mediterranean. 



Pararge egeria. — This species occurs on the oiitskirts of Bagley 

 Wood, and in a few secluded spots on Shotover Hill ; it is not so com- 

 mon at Bagley as it was formerly, but is still to be met with in its old 

 haunts ; individual specimens differ considerably in the colour and 

 markings of the wings, but I have not seen any striking varieties. 



Epinephele ianira. — Several specimens with bleached patches on the 

 wings were taken in various parts of Oxfordshire, the occurrence of 

 which I attribute to the great heat that prevailed last year. 



Epinephele hyperanthns. — One specimen taken by me, in July, 1893, 

 at Oxford, exactly tallies with the figure in the Entomologist, vol. xxvi, 

 p. 281 ; for it I projjose the provisional name lanceolata. 



Coenoiu/mpha pamphiln^. — Varieties of this species are not common 

 in the Oxford district. I quite agree with Mr. Barrett, that the var. 

 lyllus, of British entomologists, is an error. Lyllm, Esp., is a larger 

 insect, and as Mr. Barrett, cpioting Lang's Uhopalocera Europar, says 

 " has the hind margins often with a narrow ante-marginal black line 

 (which is invariably jjresent) ; the undersides of the wings are of a light 



