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outer spots do so ; in one specimen all the spots join and 

 form a longitudinal zigzag blotch through the wing, the basal 

 outer mark being carried out, for three-fourths of the length 

 of the wing, as a red streak, defined by the costal and sub- 

 costal nerves ; and one specimen has the whole of the upper 

 wings red, except a rather broad dark margin from the apex 

 to the inner margin : this specimen has been the subject of 

 much conjecture, but as it was taken amongst Filipendulae, 

 and where Trifolii has never been observed, and as the red 

 comes out below as in Filipendulae, whereas in Trifolii the 

 lower spot is always far behind the outer upper mai'k, I call 

 it an aberrant Filipendulae, though my esteemed friend Mr. 

 Newman seemed disposed to think it a distinct species.* 



Euthemonia russula. One male, marginal band of inferior 

 wings obsolete ; one male, under wings dark, except a discal 

 light patch ; another nearly like it ; and two females with 

 entire dark brown inferior wings, except only two small light 

 spots. 



Chelonia Plantaginis. Of this permanent species I have 

 four good and well-marked aberrations : the most striking is 

 a male having the first third of the superior wing of the 

 ground colour, the usual large costal mark very small and 

 enclosed within a brown lozenge-shaped mark ; and a female 

 with the outer third of the wing light, the usual X-like marks 

 being lost for want of the dark outer costal and outer angular 

 marks. 



C. caja. This gorgeous species has long had my special 

 attention, and the results of many thousand specimens, bred 

 by myself and by others, are before me as I write. To de- 

 scribe some eighty specimens, all varying from the type, is 

 rather more than I can do, perhaps more than is advisable ; 

 suffice it to say that the first row is composed of suffused 

 specimens, generally upon the under wing or wings, some- 

 times upon the upper wing or wings. In the first row is a fine 

 male having one under wing almost black, except a broad 

 yellow well-defined border, the other wing not being quite 

 so covered with dark scales, but the border exactly as in the 

 first-named. Another is a fine female, one upper wing of 



* I have no recollection of having seen the specimens in 

 question. — E. Newman. 



