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JOURNAL OF VARIATION. 



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No. 12. Vol. VI. 



August 15th, 1895. 



l/'aricties of yipgyniiis selerie. 



Bv S. G. C. RUSSELL, F.K.S. 



(1) Upper- and under-side of a specimen captured June 4tli, IS'JJ, 



(2) ,, „ „ ,, June Cth, 1S92. 



The two 

 varieties o f 

 Ar g 1/ n n / s 

 scleae here 

 figured were 

 both captured 

 by myself in 

 Abbott's 

 Wood, Pole- 

 t^'ate, on June 

 4th, and June 

 (ith, 18 9 2. 

 T h e species 

 was in great 

 abundance 

 tliat year and 

 IMessrs. Tug- 

 well and Por- 

 ritt, whom 1 



met in the wood, had also obtained some interesting varieties. 



The earlier caught specimen is by far the more suflFused, the dark 

 markings having coalesced and become extended to such a degree, that 

 the briglit tawny colour, which usually occujiies the greater part of the 

 upper surface in A. sclene, is only faintly indicated by a broken series 

 of ill-developed spots towards the outer margin of both fore and hind 

 wings. Otherwise, the wings are of a deep fuliginous-brown, in which 

 the character of the normal black spotting is indistinctl}^ traceable. 

 The specimen, consequently, has a very unicolorous appearance, the 

 wings being largely concolorous with the thorax and abdomen. 



It is on the underside, however, that the great interest of this speci- 

 men lies. The fore-wings are more normal u\ ground colour than on 

 their upper side, whilst the extended black marks towards the centre of 

 the wing may easily be referred to the normal markings, but are extended 

 in range. The underside of the hind-wiu<>-s shows the outer series of 



