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sparingly in the neighbourhood of Florence every summer ; I 

 have found it in the pine-woods that run along the coast of 

 Northern Tuscany ; its habits and appearance at a distance are 

 quite similar to those of Lcptidia sinapis, L. ; it flitters lazily 

 about the undergrowth in sunny spots in the woods, but scarcely 

 ever wanders out into the meadows where P. rapcB is abundant. 

 (Plate IV., fig. !,<?; 2, ?). 



P. DAPLiDicE L., ab. RAPHANi, Esp., Die Schmett. in abb. 

 nach der Nat. p. 163. — This form differs from the type in having 

 the green markings on the under side of hind wing replaced by 

 yellowish ones. It is found commonly in Morocco and Persia, 

 where it often replaces true daplidice entirely. I found a speci- 

 men of it along the coast in Tuscany, where it seems to occur 

 as an aberration, though very rarely indeed. 



CoLiAS HYALE, L., <? AB. — This accidental variety has 

 been caught near Modena in September, 1900. It has the black 

 borders very wide, just as wide as those of female C. edusa ; the 

 yellow spots upon it are nearly obsolete, and there is a wide 

 dash of black joining the discoidal spot to the border. On the 

 under side this dash is reproduced, though more faintly ; and on 

 the hind wings each of the crescentic reddish spots is prolonged 

 in a dash of the same colour ; these converge and join at the 

 back of discoidal spot. 



C. EDUSA, Fab., ab. minor, Failla, Naturalista Siciliano, vii.-viii. 

 (1889). [Pyrenaica, Gr. Gr. Horse, Soc. Ent. Bossicfe, xxvii. 

 (1893)] . — This is an exceedingly small form of C. edusa which 

 occurs occasionally with type. The male and female figured in 

 plate were caught in Tuscany, but I have lately obtained a still 

 smaller specimen, which is not larger than Chrysophanus dispar. 

 I also possess a specimen which combines the characters of ab. 

 ? helice, Hb. and of ab. minor (Plate IV., fig. 3, <? ; 4, ? ). 



C. edusa ab. c^RULEA, ab. nov. — I propose this name for a 

 most beautiful form of C. edusa, of which I possess a specimen 

 (unique, I believe), caught in August, 1902, on the top of Mount 

 Matanna, 4000 ft. (Alpi Apuane, the coast range in Northern 

 Tuscany). The specimen is a female, and has the ground colour 

 white as in ab. helice, Hb., but it differs from this form in having 

 all the green colour of the under side replaced by the most lovely 

 pale sky-blue. The whole of the upper side, too, is suffused 

 with strong silvery reflections. 



Melit^ea phcebe, S. v., ab. albina. — I possess a specimen of 

 this species caught in the province of Lucca in September, 1902, 

 which has the ground colour of both right wings yellowish white, 

 both on the upper and under surface. 



M. ATHALiA, Eott., ab. PYRONiA, Hb., Samml. Europ. Schmett., 



figs. 585-8. — Of this well-known but exceedingly rare aberration 



figure a specimen which I found in a small collection made 



