220 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Usually very constant in markings and only varying a 

 little in the degree of grey dusting or of grey-brown or pale 

 red shading. Mr. S. J. Capper possesses a specimen of uni- 

 form whitish-buff colour almost devoid of any trace of mark- 

 ings. One taken at Armagh, Ireland, by the Rev. W. F. 

 Johnson, has a smoky-black cloud along the dorsal margin of 

 the fore wings, and the hind wings very dark, the apex and 

 part of the hind margin being edged with black. But in 

 certain very restricted localities far more striking variations 

 are found. The most remarkable come from the New Forest, 

 Hants ; some of those in Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher's collection 

 are light fulvous-red, others darker varying to tawny and to 

 purple-red ; of these some have the stigmata scarcely visible, 

 in others they are outlined with white, and in some of these 

 a similarly margined broad claviform stigma makes its 

 appearance. Mr. Percy M. Bright possesses from the same 

 rich locality specimens very pale purple-drab with nervures 

 darker ; deep dark purple-brown or liver-colour with the 

 stigmata obscured ; one of a rich clay-red with yellow 

 subterminal line and the stigmata yellow-edged ; and one 

 most extraordinary example, dark livid greyish-purple, un- 

 spotted, but having the costal region, the subterminal line, 

 and the cilia dull yellow. These specimens are quite of recent 

 capture or rearing, yet purple-red individuals of this species 

 exist in the collections of the late Messrs. H. Doubleday and 

 F. Bond, and were regarded when captured as of great 

 rarity. The New Forest is not quite the only locality for 

 these forms, since rich liver-coloured and purple-grey speci- 

 mens have been obtained by Mr. B. A. Bower in North 

 Kent. Another beautiful variety found in Scotland is of a 

 very soft bright red or fulvous, with the subterminal line 

 deeper red ; and one in Mr. Fletcher's collection from 

 Rannoch is brick-red, and has its costa straighter than usual, 

 giving it a very peculiar shape. One of the red form in the 

 cabinet of Mr. W. Christy has pale clouds round the stigmata, 

 nother has the stigmata all but obliterated and no pale 



