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spots beyond the middle. A singularly beautiful example, 

 having the spots near the base united into a large black blotch, 

 and those of the middle of the wing completely joined into 

 a perfect indented fascia, leaving a clear fulvous space, is in 

 Mr. E. Sabine's collection. Blackish suffusion also occurs, 

 but more rarely than in the large species. Of aberrations, 

 Mr. C. A. Briggs has a specimen in which the hind wings are 

 much clouded with blackish, but the fore wings, on the con- 

 trary, almost of a spotless fulvous, the dark colouring being 

 apparently collected at the hind margin, which is extremely 

 dark ; Mr. T. H. Briggs has a wonderful specimen, all its 

 spots being of a pale, somewhat metallic, dull lead colour, 

 except those of the margins, which are absent ; Mr. Sydney 

 Webb has several with the spots of the fore wings elongated 

 or partly obsolete, and the hind suffused with black ; and 

 others in which the ground colour is jiale yellowish, with 

 ordinary markings ; and Mr. S. J. Capper has an exquisite 

 specimen with the ground colour almost white, but no silvery 

 spots on the hind wings. In the collection of the late Mr. H. 

 Doubleday, at Bethnal Green, are three, each of which has a 

 large oval black spot near the base of the fore wings ; and one 

 having all the spots merged into a great cloud of black, which 

 almost obscures the entire upper side. Mr. S. Stevens has 

 one in which the central fascia of united spots (already re- 

 ferred to as a recurrent variety) is very broad, strongly 

 marked, and has deeply angulated and graded margins ; and 

 others with the spots of the upper side extended and suffused 

 into smoky clouds and patches, which in some cases run 

 along the nervures. In Dr. Mason's collection is one of a 

 pale fulvous, shading off to white at the hind margins, and 

 having the nervures of the same colour, while the spots are 

 but faintly indicated in brown colouring ; and another having 

 the fore wings from the base and the whole of the hind wings 

 suffused above with smoky black, and a large patch of the 

 same colour in the middle of the fore wings beneath, while 

 the marginal row of silvery spots of the hind wings has run 



