THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XXXI.] FEBKUAEY, 1898. [No. 417. 



ARGYNNIS PA PHI A vae. VALE SIN A Ab. 



I am obliged to Mr. Sabine, of Erith, for the loan of the highly 

 interesting aberration of the valesina form of A. paphia figured 

 above. The specimen, which was taken in the New Forest last 

 year, was purchased at Stevens's auction rooms last December. 



Although described in the catalogue as a male, the insect is 

 certainly a female valesina, and the ground colour is that proper 

 to the form, but rather deeper in tint than usual, and much suf- 

 fused with black. The aberrant character of the markings is well 

 shown in the figure. 



I may mention that Mr. Leech has a very similar example in 

 his collection. This specimen was received, among others of the 

 normal valesina form, from Chang-Yang in Central China. 



In the ' Entomologist's Monthly Magazine ' for January 

 there is a figure of an almost parallel aberration of A. paphia, 

 which is also a female, and was captured in Northampton last 

 July by Mr. Kenneth J. Morton. A male specimen of the same 

 form, taken by Mr. W. J. Argent in the New Forest in July, 1881, 

 is figured in the 'Entomologist,' xv. pi. 1, fig. 4 ; and in an article 

 on "Aberrations in the genus Argynnis," in the same volume, 

 the late Mr. J. Jenner Weir, referring to this example, states 

 that " another similarly but not so strongly marked " was 

 obtained at the same time and place. Richabd South 



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