178 LEPIDOPTERA. 



6. A. Selene, BcMff. — Exjjanse, If inch. Very similar 

 to the last, but the under side of the hind wings has numerous 

 silvery spots, and some clouding of chocolate near the 

 margin. 



Hind margins of all the wings rounded. Rich fulvous, with 

 the bases of the wings suffused with blackish, and the nervures 

 and markings black. All the markings of the upper side as 

 described in the last species, but smaller or narrower, and more 

 sharply defined. Under side of fore wings also as in A. Eu- 

 iphrosync, but with a series of slender reddish crescents along the 

 hind margin, and the red clouding at the apes usually darker, 

 but occasionally absent. Of hind wings, quite different from 

 those of A. E'Uphrosyne ; yellowish straw-colour, divided by 

 blackish-brown nervures ; a reddish band near the base, and 

 another, broader, before the hind margin, containing spots or 

 blotches of reddish or chocolate ; also, numerous silvery spots 

 ranged in three transverse series, one near the base, another 

 about the middle, and the third, which consists of semicircles, 

 along the hind margin, and preceded by a row of black dots. 

 The whole under surface, divided by the dark nervures and 

 the blackish edges of the transverse bands, becomes beautifully 

 tesselated. 



The most frequent form of variation seems to be in the 

 diminution, or even suppression, of the squared spots in 

 the middle of the fore wings, but clouded specimens, in 

 rare instances, occur ; one in the Doubleday collection is 

 entirely smoky brown ; another has the spots suffused, and 

 the wings clouded with dark brown; Mr. S. Stevens also 

 has one extremely dusky. On the other hand, he possesses a 

 specimen of a straw colour. Dr. Mason another, Mr. Webb 

 several, and Mr. S. J. Capper one nearly white. Mr. H. Goss 

 has a beautiful aberration in which the basal two-thirds of the 

 fore wings are spotless, with the exception of two spots in 

 the discal cell, and the silvery spots of the hind wings beneath 

 are produced into long stripes ; one in the Doubleday collec- 

 tion has the same portion of the hind wings spotless, having 



