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markings I have ever seen upon any specimen : the bril- 

 liancy of the ground colour of this specimen and the almost 

 obliteration of the discal twin spots strikingly remind one of 

 Ichuusa ; and did not the light patch on the edge of the 

 inner blotch call forcibly back the remembrance of Urticae, 

 few would doubt but that this specimen and the Corsican 

 insect were one, especially so on examining two specimens 

 below it, which, though not so large in alar expanse or so 

 brightly coloured, are entirely devoid of the twin discal spots, 

 and almost without the light shade at the edge of the inner 

 marginal blotch ; in fact they are, though perhaps a little 

 less solid in the ground colour, veritable Ichnusa-looking 

 specimens. 



Vanessa Cardui. One specimen only, measuring about 

 one inch and three-fourths in alar expanse ; one very large 

 specimen, the ground colour being yellow, and the spots on 

 ihe under wings small. 



Satyrus. The members of this genus are little liable to 

 sport in the form of their markings, but often vary much in 

 the brightness or intensity of colour ; the tendency to greater 

 intensity and brightness is seen as we go south, until, for 

 instance, S. Semele becomes a bright reddish ochre in Cor- 

 sica, and is there called S. Aristseus ; whilst here it rarely 

 has any reddish ochre colour upon it, except in very hot 

 summers. At Howth, in Ireland, I have repeatedly observed 

 them much lighter than in England, and I possess a fine 

 female I captured there in 1866, very light, and having a 

 small dark dot between the two ordinary ones upon the 

 superior wings. I need not take up space with the other mem- 

 bers of this genus, further than to say that, of those which 

 differ in the number and intensity of the ocelli, I possess 

 striking aberrations, and have also some of the silvery forms 

 of S. Janira; but as these belong to the manufacturable 

 varieties I refrain from enumerating them. 



Chortobius Davus. Of this variable species I have a long 

 series, from one inch in expanse to one inch and five-eighths, 

 and varying in colour from dark dull brown to light creamy 

 fawn-colour, and from immaculate to almost margined with 

 distinct ocelli, varying on the under side quite as much and 

 more strangely than upon the upper. The dark specimens have 

 all been taken upon the wet portions of our mosses, and the 

 light ones upon the drier parts and in hot seasons. 



