310 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
up the lunules in a band. In the Corsican variety ichnusa, 
Bon., the brownish suffusion often confines itself to the parts 
between the fringe and the base of the lunules, leaving the black 
triangles round the lunules separated towards the apex by the 
red ground colour. The margin consequently has a very jagged 
outline. Occasionally it appears also in British specimens. The 
opposite development is shown in fig. 2 (parvilunulata, Rynr.). 
Besides appearing in an otherwise typical facies, fig. 2, 
the margin associated itself with a fine brown ground colour. 
A specimen of this kind, which I reared in the beginning of 
last June from larve collected full-sized on May 28rd (this is 
perhaps an early date for full-grown larve of urtice in England) 
exhibited a very dark under side, with the two median puncta 
of the fore wings each marked by a deep brown blotch, in the 
Same manner as is often exhibited in the under side of another 
species, V. xanthomelas. On the upper side of the fore wings 
the puncta are large and conspicuous; the inner marginal blotch 
is, however, obsolete. I suggest for this aberration the name 
ab. subtuspuncta (female). 
Fig. 8, for which the varietal name ab. magnilunulata, Rynr., 
appears appropriate, has a yellowish ground colour, and the 
lunules are sometimes greenish. I reared three specimens of 
this variety, which were all females, and I am inclined to think 
that this form with the broad, almost trapeze-shaped blue spots 
is in truth a ‘‘female variety,’ and perhaps the same may be 
said of fig. 4. 
The ground colour of fig. 4 is brownish with shining light 
blue lunules. I have also reared this form with violet markings, 
and sometimes groups of white scales form conspicuous spots 
among the violet or blue scales of the lunules. In the ocellus 
of the hind wings in JV. io occasionally white spots or streaks 
appear in a somewhat similar manner, and three of these spots 
ave there so placed that they evidently form a continuation of 
the chain of white spots already present on the fore wings, 
which sometimes is made complete by an extra spot near the 
inner angle. 
Fig. 5, female, with crescent-shaped lunules is associated 
with a fiery red or rich orange ground colour, and all the finest 
specimens I reared were females. 
Fig. 6, female, has violet lunules, and only on one hind 
wing do the anal lunules coalesce as depicted. Fig. 1 shows a 
transitory form in a male; in transitory females no points 
protrude from the lunules, but instead they are separated by a 
narrow black line, the ‘lean to”’ of the lunules being quite diffe- 
rent. Such transitory females occur sometimes with lunules 
shaped as in fig. 2. 
In other specimens the two largest median lunules tend to 
coalesce, and on the fore wings, at the apex, broad square blue 
