THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XXX.] OCTOBER, 1897. [No. 413. 



EPINEPHELE TITHONUS, <y ab. 



The remarkable aberration of E. tithomis figured above was 

 taken by Mr. Henry J. Spindler near Luggershall, Sussex, on 

 July 29th. The normal fulvous colour is present in its usual 

 intensity, but the whole of the typical dark brown is replaced by 

 a pale pinkish ochreous ; the subapical spot of fore wings and the 

 sex brand are also of this colour. In the figure the shaded por- 

 tions represent the fulvous tint proper to the species, whilst the 

 pale portions show the aberrant colour. The under surface is 

 affected in the same way. 



Referring to the aberration of this species, Mr. Barrett (Lep. 

 Brit. Isl. i. p. 247), after discussing variation in the spot mark- 

 ings, says: — " Still another form of variation, or rather aberra- 

 tion, consists in the substitution of pale yellow, or silvery white, 

 for the fulvous ground colour, the brown markings being un- 

 affected, or even intensified ; as in a male in Mr. H. Goss's 

 collection, having broad dark brown margins and central cloud, 

 yet the ground colour nearly white. Mr. S. J. Capper has a 

 straw- 3oloured male, one sent me from Gloucestershire by Mr. 

 E. C. L. Perkins is whitish except a fulvous tinge near the mar- 

 ginal band, and Dr. Mason iias one with the fore wings half 



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