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dark ground colour, and gives this form quite a different look 

 from true neoridas. I should call it ab. albovittata. It corre- 

 sponds to ab. leucotcenia, Stgr. of E. csthiojjs, Esp. (Plate IV., 

 fig. 8). 



Epinephele jurtina, L. ab. anommata (avo,a/*aToj = without 

 eyes), ab. nov. — I propose this name for a new form of this well- 

 known species, in which the apical white pupilled spot of the 

 fore wings is entirely wanting. I possess a male specimen of it 

 captured last July on Monte Senario, not far from Florence. 



E. JURTINA ab. SEMiALBA, Bruand. — The specimen figured is 

 an uncommonly fine example of this exceedingly variable aber- 

 ration. It was captured on Mount Matanna (Alpi Apuane) in 

 August, 1902. I possess a few more specimens with large white 

 patches on different parts of the wings, amongst others a male 

 and a female with both the hind wings entirely white, the 

 female having also the greater part of the fulvous patch on the 

 fore wings replaced by white (Plate IV., fig. 9). 



E. IDA, Esp., ab. suBALBA, ab. nov. — M. Fallou described, in 

 the Transactions of the French Entomological Society for 1883, 

 an albino of E. ida, in which all the brown colouring of the 

 wings was replaced by white, and he gave it the name of ab. 

 alhomarginata. The specimen figured in the plate, which is the 

 exact reverse of it, was captured in August, 1902, at the foot of 

 the hills at the back of Viareggio on the coast of Tuscany. It 

 has all the ground colour yellowish white, instead of fulvous. 

 This form, as well as the following, which is the corresponding 

 one of tithonus, L., has, I believe, never been described (Plate 

 IV., fig. 10). 



E. TITHONUS, L., ab. subalbida, ab. nov. — I possess two males 

 and one female of E. tithonus, collected on Mount Matanna in 

 August, 1903, which have the ground colour yellowish white. I 

 would give this albino form the name mentioned above. 



Thecla acacia, F., ab. beccarii, ab. nov. — Signor Nello 

 Beccari, in the month of July, 1902, captured on Mount Senario, 

 not far from Florence, a most interesting Thecla. I certainly 

 think it is an aberration of T. acacia, though it differs so much 

 from this species that it might even be at first sight an aberration 

 of T. w-album, Knoch, or T. ilicis, Esp. As ^lay be seen from the 

 figure, it is much smaller than any of these three species ; it has 

 not got on the under side the faintest trace of the white streak ; 

 and only one of the marginal orange markings is distinctly visible 

 (the one above the tails) ; the other two, on the right and left 

 of it, can scarcely be seen ; the tails are exceedingly short (Plate 

 IV., fig. 11). 



Chrysophanus dispar, Haw., var. rutilus, Wernb., Beitr. zur 

 Schmett. (1864), p. 391. — This Continental form of the cele- 

 brated English large copper had in Italy only been found in the 



