1884.] X57 



Sah. : Aru Islands. Mus. Driice. 



This very distinct and beautiful species is at once distinguished 

 Tom all those hitherto described by the entire absence of the sub- 

 )asal orange-coloured spots on the primaries, and by its more brilliantly 

 loloured abdomen. The primaries are also somewhat narrower and 

 horter. I have named this fine insect after its captor, Herr C. E-ibbe, 

 "vho obtained it this year in the Aru Islands. 



On examining the fine series of specimens of G. Durvillei in my 

 )wn collection, I find the orange sub-basal patch very variable : in 

 ome specimens it is quite small and round, in others large and oval. 

 Che black external borders also vary considerably in width. 



The Beeches, Circus Koad, N.W. : 

 November, 1884. 



Observations on Lepidoptera near Reading. — 



Argynnis Paphia v. Valezina. — I saw two specimens of this variety in a wood 

 t Streatly, near Reading, in July, 1876, and secured one of them, which is now in 

 ihe collection of the Reading Museum. 



Argynnis Selene. — I took a specimen some years ago in Odiham Wood much 

 "uffused with smoky-black, all the markings being much larger and blacker than 



t'lsual, and those across the centre of the wing forming a band of large square blotches. 

 Melitcea Artemis. — Yarieties of this species also occur near Odiham, some being 

 •vnuch suffused with black and with a broad blackish fascia, others with a moderately 

 road yellowish fascia, and once a specimen was found with the under-side of the hind- 

 dngs nearly devoid of markings. 



Safyrus Janira. — A female specimen was taken a few years ago at Pangboumin 

 'hich the whole of the usually dark borders of the wings are white, the only colour- 

 ig being the usual tawny colour of the middle of the wings. This specimen is also 

 1 the Reading Museum. 



Satyrus Hyperanthus. — The variety of this species in which the " ringlets " are 

 ibsent from the under-side is occasionally found in this district. 



Sphinx ligustri. — Of this species I have reared two specimens in which the pink 

 olour of the hind-wings and of the abdomen is replaced by yellowish-white. When 

 idey emerged these portions were of a pale lemon colour. These specimens are also 

 ji the Reading Museum. 



Liparis dispar. — In August, 1870, at Odiham, I was in the wood one da^, and 

 isd been running after Vanessa polychloros until, being tired out, I flung myself 

 ' own to rest in a wood-ride. As I lay there a moth flew across the ride which, 

 imping up, I secured. To my surprise it was a male gipsey moth in fairly good 

 Dndition. This specimen is also in the Museum here. Its colour is much greyer 

 lan that of the males of the domesticated stock of this species. 

 ■j Lithosia griseola var. stramineola. — This variety is found in fair numbers in a 



