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ground colour whitish. Mr. S. Stevens has one also whitish, 

 and another of a bright golden yellow-brown, with the ocellated 

 spots and dark markings very indistinct ; and one in the late 

 Mr. F. Bond's collection has the fore wings almost entirely 

 bright fulvous, with the darker transverse markings nearly 

 obliterated, but witli two ocellated black spots near the apex, 

 and all the usually dark basal portion of the hind wings 

 whitish. Within the present season (1892) a very pretty 

 local variation has been found by Major J. N. Still in low- 

 lying valleys on the slopes of Dartmoor, Devon. In this 

 form the second and third black bars which cross the discal 

 cells are increased in size and united to a broad blackish band 

 which lies across, and occupies, the entire central portion of 

 the fore wings, enclosing the oblique fascia. The under side 

 of the fore wings is not afEected, but, in one such specimen, 

 that of the hind wings is ornamented by a slender curved 

 yellow transverse stripe, lying outside the second indented 

 dark brownline. Very rarely the female presents a broad cen- 

 tral brownfascia, the space between the two transverse stripes 

 becoming filled up with dark brown. One such delighted my 

 own eyes in the middle of Canaston Wood, Pembrokeshire, some 

 years ago ; two others are in the collection of Mr. Sydney 

 Webb. These last are so curious as to deserve special notice 

 — one being of a pale yellowish colour, the other being de- 

 void of the second branch of the median nervure in both fore 

 and hind wings, leaving a space of double the usual width 

 between two nervures, and having in this broad space in the 

 fore wings an entirely abnormal and misplaced ocellated 

 black spot, and in the hind wings the two ocellated spots 

 belonging to the space joined, and very large and conspi- 

 cuous. The apical spot of the fore wings is also double, 

 and altogether this specimen is most aberrant and singular. 

 Another in the same collection, formerly in that of the 

 late Cajptain Cox, of Fordwich, is a male much larger than 

 usual, and with the basal half of the fore wings clouded with 

 dark brown, totally altering its appearance ; and another has 



