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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



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ABERRANT FORMS OF ABCTIA CAIA. 

 By Leonard Tatchell, F.E.S. 



The upper specimen shows great encroachment of the dark 

 colour over the light on fore wings, with spots confluent, the 

 usual red replaced by pinkish orange on hind wings. 



The lower specimen is melanic with almost all traces of the 

 cream ground-colour obliterated on fore wings, with spots of 

 smoky hue coalesced in the hind wings and showing only a very 

 slight amount of the red. There is also a distinct darkening of 

 the abdominal segments. 



These specimens were bred from full-grown larvae collected 

 near Bedford. 



[For figures of other aberrations of A. caia, see the 'Entomologist,' vol. xxi, 

 p. 73 ; vol. x.'cv, p. 1 ; vol. xxix, p. 1 ; vol. xxxiii, pi. iii, fig. 9; vol. xlix,p. 264. — Ed.] 



