58 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



C. DORiLis, Hufn., ab. upoleuca {v'tto'kivkoc, = whitish), ab. nov* 

 — The locality that has proved so rich in albino forms of 

 C. phloeas has also produced some very interesting ones of 

 C. dorilis. I possess a male, caught last year, with the hind 

 wings quite white, and a female, collected near Modena, with 

 the ground colour of fore wing pure white ; the fulvous colour 

 only remains along the costa and on an exceedingly small area 

 of the base. The hind wings are quite similar to those of typical 

 specimens. I may add there is not the slightest trace of 

 blackish suffusion on fore wings, so that this specimen also 

 belongs to ab. 5 fidvior, Stef., a fine form that occurs probably 

 in the whole of Southern Europe, but has at present only been 

 recorded from Central Italy. 



Lampides telicanus, Lang, ab. nov. — I do not think it advisable 

 to give this accidental form a name, but it is distinct enough to 

 be noticed. Though I have never seen the Sicilian specimen 

 named ab. hellien by Eagusa [Nat. Sicil. i. (1881-2), p. 37, pi. 3, 

 f. 2] , I gather from his description that my specimen is a very 

 near ally to it. Both forms differ from type on the under side 

 only. The aberration, of which I possess a specimen has on this 

 surface the whole of the ground colour of all the wings uniform 

 greyish brown. On the fore wings are two subterminal rows of 

 light grey luuules and three transverse oblong rings of the same 

 colour, which cross the upper half of the wings respectively 

 towards the middle of cell, at the end of it and between this 

 point and first row of luuules. On hind wings the submargiual 

 pattern of fore wings is prolonged, but the inner row of lunulas 

 widens greatly, and these take the shape of arrow-beads ; at the 

 end of discoidal cell is a very oblong ring, a very small round 

 one is on costa above it, and a row of three extends from costa to 

 hind margin across the middle of discoidal cell. Near anal angle 

 are, as iu type, two greenish spots surrounded by orange rings. 

 This specimen was caught on July 31st, 1902, in the neighbour- 

 hood of Modena. 



Lycjena ICARUS, Kott., ab. melanotoxa, Pincit. Marott. Giorn. 

 Sc. Nat. Pal. xiv. (1879).— This well-marked form is but little 

 known. It differs from the type in having ablack streak parallel 

 to the hind margin on the under side of the fore wings. This 

 streak is formed by the last spot of marginal row and by the 

 second of basal spots ; these have, so to say, increased iu length 

 towards each other, and have blended together. Signor Pincitore 

 thought this form was only to be met with in Sicily, and that it 

 was only a female aberration. So did all the other writers 

 think, who mention the form, up to the present day ; but this 

 summer I caught two males with the black streak very well 

 marked, and discovered that specimens of this form, as far as 

 the female is concerned, are not rare in Tuscany. (Plate IV., 

 fig. 14). 



