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provinces of Modena and Milan, and doubtfully, perhaps, also in 

 Piedmont and in the Pontine Marshes. I have three specimens 

 captured in the small marshes that extend along the coast of 

 Tuscany, from Pisa nearly to Spezia ; these are the first speci- 

 mens recorded from Tuscany. The two females differ strikingly 

 from specimens from Modena or other localities by their smaller 

 size (one not being larger than good- sized G. phloeas), and by the 

 minuteness of the spots on the fore wings (Plate IV., fig. 12). 



C. DisPAR, Haw., ab. nigrolineata, ab. nov. — I propose this name 

 for a new aberration of which I have a specimen collected near 

 Modena on the 6th of September, 1900. It may be said to corre- 

 spond to ab. radiata, Tutt, of C. phloeas, having on the fore- wings 

 each of the black spots of the subterminal row greatly increased 

 in size and prolonged across the submarginal brown band to the 

 base of cilia. On hind wings the black dots are so enlarged and 

 lengthened as to fill up entirely the internervular space up to the 

 edge of coppery bands. The copper-colour also differs greatly 

 on fore wings from that of type, as it is thickly strewed with 

 reddish scales, which give it a much richer reddish tone. These 

 scales are in every respect similar to those that may be seen very 

 thinly strewed here and there on the fore wings of sonae female 

 specimens of var. riUiliis. On the under side of fore wings each 

 spot of the submarginal row is greatly prolonged outwardly and 

 ends in a sharp point, which, in the case of the three last spots, 

 blends itself with the corresponding small black dots plainly 

 visible in the type on the inner edge of the hind marginal grey 

 border. The hind wings have nearly no blue at the base. 



C. phlceas, L., ab. schmidtii, Gerh. — I have had the luck of 

 being able to examine an uncommonly large number of speci- 

 mens of the well-known albino of C. jjhlceas. In the last three 

 years I was able to secure eight specimens from two Tuscan 

 localities. Three were collected in the neighbourhood of Florence 

 in September, 1901. One of these is represented in the plate. 

 It has an unusually pure white ground colour, and also has the 

 characters of var. eleus, F., well marked. The other two are 

 very slightly suffused with pale coppery reflections. The five 

 other specimens were found this summer, after a year of patient 

 search in a locality at the back of Viareggio (province of Lucca), 

 where phloeas is particularly abundant. One of these specimens 

 is pure milky white ; another has a remainder of metallic 

 reflections ; a third has both the left-hand wings normal, and 

 both the right-hand side albino (I had already heard of speci- 

 mens of this form) ; a fourth has the fore wings pure white, and 

 the submarginal band of hind wings copper colour ; whilst a 

 fifth is exactly the reverse of this one, having the fore wings 

 normally bright copper, but the band of hind wings white. The 

 two last specimens are, I believe, unique (Plate IV., fig. 13). 



