THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Vol. X.] 



JUNE, 1877. 



[No. 169. 



MELITiEA ATHALTA var. EOS, Haw. 

 By S. Stevens, F.L.S., &c. 



Melit^a Athalia var. Eos (= Pykonia, Hiih., Steph.). 



This beautiful and probably unique var. oiMeliUea Athalia , 

 which is now in my collection, was captured at Peckham, 

 near London, in June, 1803, by Mr. Howard; and record of 

 it is given in the old Entomological Society's Proceedings, 

 now in the library of the present Entomological Society of 

 London, kindly presented to the Society by Mr. Frederick 

 Smith. This specimen is figured in James Francis Stephens' 

 'Illustrations of British Eiftoniology ' {Haiis/elluta), vo], i., 

 pi. 4, figs. 1, 2 (1828), and copied into Humplireys and 

 Westwood's 'British Butterflies,' pi. 8, figs. 13, 14; but as 

 these works are now scarce it was thought desirable that a 

 fresh figure should be given of it in the ' Entomologist.' At 



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