56 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
ab. navarina, Sélys-Longchamps, ‘ Enumération des Insectes 
Lépidoptéres de la Belgique’ (v. supra), p. 19, 1845. His de- 
scription reads as follows* :—‘‘ Toute brune en dessus avec une 
série antéterminale de taches fauves. Le dessous des ailes 
plus noir qu’a l’ordinaire.”” He states that he is describing the 
insect figured by Ernst & Engramelle, ‘ Papillons de l’Europe,’ 
vol. ii. pl. lxii. suppl. viii. figs. 81 e, f (1780), and referred by 
them, p. 252, to Esper, ‘Schmetterlinge Europas,’ i. p. 382, 
which is his description of dictynna illustrated on pl. xlviii. 
(suppl. xxiv.). Sélys-Longchamps consequently remarks that 
the absence of the black spots in the outer band un. s. h. w. at 
once removes it from dictynna, and, indeed, Ernst & Engramelle 
refer their figures back to their first volume, pl. xix. fig. 81, and 
the corresponding letterpress, pp. 67, 68 (1779), where a further 
reference is made to the previous plate of Esper (i. pl. xlvii. 
suppl. xxiil.), which represents athalia. The following descrip- 
tion is made from the figure to which Sélys-Longchamps 
refers :— 
Up.s.f. w.: Ground colour only shows between the subterminal 
lines and in a single spot outside, and two inside the stigma; on 
h. w. only between the outer and inner lines, and in the light spot. 
Un. s. f. w.: Lunules yellow, with a few yellow spots below the 
costa and about half-way down the wing inside the outer sub- 
terminal ; beyond this the whole wing is fulvous, with a series of six 
long, rather wedge-shaped, black dashes starting from the inner sub- 
terminal, a square black spot taking the place of the stigma, and an 
pbieng black spot in the middle of the base representing the basal 
dash. 
Un. s. h. w.: Terminal band shows dull grey spots near the arch 
of the lunules except at anal angle; inner part of the outer and 
central bands black; outer part of central band pale yellow: rest 
of wing fulvous, except the light spot and the first, third, and fourth 
spots of the basal band, which are of the same shade as the spots 
in the terminal lunules. (This colour may have changed in the plate.) 
A variant of this aberration is figured, without name, by 
Hubner, ‘ Beitrage,’ ii. pl. iv. fig. W. 1, 2, the under side of 
which has the outer part of the fore wing very pale, the spots 
forming the elbowed line prolonged into dashes, the stigma and 
the space between the basal lines being filled in with black, and 
the basal dash being represented by a triangular black spot. The 
hind wing appears to have the usual bands, but the outer has the 
dark lunules very slightly represented, and failing altogether to- 
wards the costa, the space between them and the central band 
being filled in with black in the lower half of the wing ; most of 
the base is also black. 
A Dutch specimen referable to this form is also illustrated 
* “ Entirely brown above, with an antemarginal series of orange-brown 
spots. The under side with more black than usual.” 
