THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Vol. XI.] JANUARY, 1878. [No. 176. 



VARIETY OF SATYRUS JANIRA. 

 By C. A. Briggs. 



SATYEUS JANIRA (vAHIETY). 



This reiuaikable variety of Satyrus Janira was captured 

 near Dover, by Mr. W. Puvdey, of" Folkestone, from whom I 

 obtained it. The specimen is a female, and is in fair 

 condition. Liable as this species is to variation in the depth 

 of its colouring, I do not remember to have ever seen so fine 

 an example of the bleached variety as this. A somewhat 

 similar one, however, is described in Humphrey's ' Genera 

 and Species of British Butterflies,' p. 14. 



In the place of the ordinary colouring of the female of this 

 species, the ground colour of the upper suface of the wings 

 in this specimen is of an almost uniform drab, from which 

 the usual orange blotch shows out with singular effect. In 

 typical specimens of «S. Janiid (female) this blotch is the 

 palest portion of the upper surface of the wings. In this 

 variety it is the darkest; and the contrast when the specimen 

 is placed among typical specimens is most striking. 



Mr. Purdey informs me its appearance on the wing was so 

 extraordinary as to leave him in doubt of the identity of the 

 species until after its capture. 



December 11, 1877. 



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