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being the case. Two specimens from Herts, one from Bute 

 and one from Kincardine, make approaches towards the subspecies 

 A. polaris, Stgr. From Morthoe, N. Devon, a fine specimen,, 

 taken by Dr. F. A. Dixey, F.E.S., August 25th, 1892, very 

 closely approaches the Japanese form ab. connexa, Btlr., but there 

 are faint indications of blue spots at the margin of the fore wing. 



Vanessa io. — Series of 80, from many English localities and 

 two from Tyrone, with few aberrations. One very remarkable 

 one was taken in the Museum grounds in 1878. The fore wings 

 are normal except that the yellow portion of the interior edge 

 of the ocellus is much reduced in size and the space between 

 the black costal spots is dull ochreous. In the hind wings 

 the normal blue and black centre of the ocellus is reduced 

 to a small black spot set in the middle of a circular patch of 

 very pale ochreous colour. In a series of 10 bred from larvse- 

 found in Chorley Wood, Eickmansworth, Herts, in 1914, by 

 Mr. P. Tautz, the typical red is replaced by a dull maroon or 

 madder-purple colour. The two specimens from Tyrone have 

 a black spot below, but touching, vein 2 in the inner discal 

 portion of the fore wings. 



Euvanessa antiopa. — Fifteen specimen. Three from the Hope 

 Collection, and one from Si^ilsbury Collection, all unlabelled. 

 Another from the Spilsbury Collection is labelled "Bred by the 

 late Mr. Kirby [author of an ' Introduction to Natural History 'j, 

 given to me by Mr. Dummitt, of Uttoxeter." Another also- 

 from the Spilsbury Collection is labelled " Caught by — Farrell,_ 

 near Macclesfield, September, 1858." A specimen in splendid 

 condition was taken by the Piev. J. W. B. Bell on a sugared 

 post at Pja'ton, Oxon. This specimen was recorded in the 

 * Entomologist,' 1900, p. 250. Two specimens taken at Cromer 

 in late August or early September, 1872, by Miss M. C. and 

 Miss E. H. Lowe, were presented to the collection by Prof. 

 Poulton. A hibernated specimen taken by a boy at Maple- 

 durham in the spring of 1873 was presented to the Collection 

 by Prof. Poulton. A very fine and perfect specimen from the 

 Chitty Collection is labelled "New Forest. 11/6/92." Another 

 from the same collection is labelled " New Forest, 10/8/88. 

 ' Entomologist,' vol. xxi, page 229." A specimen from the 

 Meldola Collection labelled " G. Euffel, Bigods, Sept. 20, 1900." 

 One from the Sellon Collection, labelled "Worthing. 1879." 

 Another from the same collection labelled " Salwey's Collection, 

 originally from F. Standish's." 



Pip-anwis cardui. — Upwards of 70, with no noteworthy 

 aberration. 



P. atalanta. — No aberration, except one small but apparently 

 very rare, consisting in the absence of the lowest of the normal 

 five subapical spots. It was bred in the New Forest by 

 C. Gulliver, October, 1912. 



