Z THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



centre clothed with long pale fulvous hairs ; outer third pale 

 fulvous, intersected by black nervules. Under surface of fore 

 wings paler than above, especially at apes and along outer 

 marginal area ; spots in cell as on upper surface, but on the 

 submarginal area the spots are obscure reddish brown, the two 

 upper ones most conspicuous and projected to outer margin ; the 

 marginal spots are absent : hind wings pale buif, the outer third 

 limited by a waved reddish line ; the nervules are bordered with 

 reddish on this portion of the wing, and there is a silver patch 

 in each interspace ; in the centre of the wing is a large elongate 

 silver spot, which is only separated from the fourth internervular 

 patch by the reddish wavy line. — E. S. 



Figure 2. — Melitcsa aiirinia {artemis), ? ab., bred from 

 Penarth pupa;, :^^ay, 1893. In F. W. Frohawk's collection. 



Upper side : basal half dark smoky brown ; apical portion of 

 primaries pale straw-yellow ; semitrausparent in certain lights. 

 Under side : primaries with a submarginal pale straw-yellow 

 band ; the usual tawny orange colouring is much deeper in tone, 

 inclining to russet-brown ; the secondary on right side has the 

 usual tawny orange submarginal band entirely missing, the 

 series of black spots onl}'' remaining on the creamy white 

 ground ; on the left side the band is slightly indicated ; the five 

 basal creamy white spots found in normal specimens are absent 

 in this variety, and partially replaced by black markings. — 

 F. W. F. 



Figure 3. — Melitaa aurinia, $ ab., bred May, 1893, from 

 Penarth puptie. In Mr. J. H. Carpenter's collection. 



Upper surface : primaries smoky black, without any cream- 

 coloured markings, only the tawny orange spots present ; 

 secondaries l)lack, the submarginal band and median markings 

 in bold contrast to the black ground. Under side : resembling 

 normal specimens, excepting the basal area of the secondaries, 

 which are somewhat similar in variation to fig. 2, but in a more 

 marked degree, exhibiting four large deep black spots. — F. W. F. 



ON THE VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE BRITISH 

 LEPIDOPTERA. 



By W. Haecourt Bath. 



^ The study of the vertical distribution of the Lepidoptera in 

 this country is a by-path of Entomology which has hitherto been 

 very sadly neglected. 



So long ago as 1865, Mr. Jenner-Fusfc published, in the 

 * Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,' an 

 account of the geographical distribution of the Lepidoptera 



