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Shetland varieties, mingled with those of the smaller hill- 

 frequenting form previously described, ordinary Southern 

 types, and intermediates. To some extent the same tendencies 

 seem to be observed in all the Scottish Isles. Elsewhere 

 rather curious subsidiary occurrences have been noticed. 

 The small hill form has been taken in the New Forest, Hants, 

 as a accond generation of ordinary N. f estiva ; near Dublin 

 the same has happened, with the remarkable addition of an 

 example of the narrow-winged Shetland form. This specimen 

 was secured at Howth by Mr. G. V. Hart and forwarded to 

 me. It is also interesting to know that the higher moors and 

 hills of Devonshire produce the small form found on the 

 Northern hills, and that this mingles with the ordinary 

 Southern forms in the woods at their bases ; that the narrow- 

 winged form has been found in Kincardineshire in the east 

 of Scotland ; and that intermediates, some of them nearly 

 approaching the latter, are found even so far south in Scot- 

 laud as the hills of Lanark. 



Turning to more casual aberrations, a specimen in the 

 cabinet of the late Mr. H. Doubleday in Bethnal Green 

 Museum, is especially worthy of attention. Its fore wings are 

 buff, mottled with red in a not unusual manner, but its hind 

 wings also are reddish-buff, with two slender, dark-grey, curved 

 transverse lines, giving it an appearance far more approximat- 

 ing to that of the fore wings than is at all usual. Mr. F. J. 

 Hanbury has one taken by himself in Essex, of a lovely 

 cream colour with a dark smoky-brown central shade, and the 

 spot between the stigmata intensely black, also with shai^sly 

 accentuated markings toward the hind margin. A specimen 

 in Mr. S. J. Capper's collection has a distinct black streak in 

 the place of the usual dot representing the claviform stigma ; 

 another in the same collection has a long jet-black streak 

 Ijefore the orbicular stigma, and another, still longer, beyond 

 the reniform. Mr. W. H, B. Fletcher has one in which the 

 first and second lines are distinctly marked, placed near 

 together, and so altered as to resemble those in Cosmia 



