THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



No. 114.] 



MARCH, MDCCCLXXIII. [PniCE 6d. 



ARCTIA MENDICA (VAMETY). 



Variety of Arctia mendica. — This specimen of the female 

 Mendica differs chiefly from the normal character in the greater 

 number and size of the black spots. I am not aware of the 

 locality in which the specimen was taken ; but it is in the 

 cabinet of Mr. Stevens, and has been kindly lent me for 

 figuring in the ' Entomologist.' — Edward Newman. 



CALLIMORPHA DOMINULi (MELANIC VAEIETy). 



Variety of Callimorpha dominula. — The head, antennae, 

 thorax and body, are of the same metallic green-black, which 

 is the normal colour of the fore wings ; the fore wings are of the 

 same colour, except where the white and yellow markings 

 occur on ordinary specimens, and these are transformed to 

 the most intense opaque black, exhibiting perhaps the most 

 complete instance of melanic variation that occurs in any 



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