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forms are obtained in Scotland. Some from Hawick, sent by- 

 Mr. Orant Guthrie, are of a peculiarly pale smoky-purplish- 

 brown with the transverse lines conspicuously darker ; Mr. 

 Malloch has found specimens in Dumbartonshire of a singular 

 dark liver-brown ; others from Sutherlandshire are of a 

 curious light red or pale purple-red, with the stigmata dark, 

 and a conspicuous pale yellow blotch before the orbicular ; 

 Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher has one of a neat pale grey with the 

 transverse lines most distinctly dark grey and much toothed, 

 the central shade being slender and reddish; others pale 

 yellow-brown or buff, mottled with dark grey atoms, the 

 transverse lines broad and mixed up with the mottling; 

 others pale reddish -ochreous, the colour of T. m.unda ; or 

 putty-coloured with a dusting of grey; and one from 

 Rannoch, Perthshire, of a deep, dark, dull mouse-colour; 

 unicolorous and devoid of gloss. One of Mr. R. Adkin's 

 examples from the same district is pale greyish-buff with 

 the first line and central shade both conspicuously deep 

 purple-brown, with similar blotches along the subterminal 

 line ; another from Forres, Morayshire, is of a unicolorous 

 pale drab with the angulated central shade intensified into 

 a bent, thick, dark purple-brown bar. Mr. Bright has one 

 in which this bar is rich purple-red, almost crimson, another 

 in which it is even more conspicuously black, and a third 

 in which it is deep chocolate on a rich brown ground colour ; 

 while others are pale brown with an exquisite marbling of 

 light red. Mr. S. J. Capper possesses a specimen of a very 

 pale yellow-brown with the markings hardly darker; Dr. 

 P. B. Mason one pale yellow-grey with the nervures and 

 markings dark grey and the subterminal line yelloio ; and 

 another pale yellow-brown with the hind wings quite ivliitc. 

 In all these almost endless modifications the peculiar broken 

 form of the subterminal line is visible, and, but for it, there 

 would sometimes be great difiiculty in determining the species ; 

 yet in one specimen, reared at Hereford by Dr. T. A. Chap- 

 man, even this character is very nearly eliminated! 



