THE INSECTS ON THE TITLE PAGE. 
Not having found space to give many representations of mere “ varieties” in the preceding 
Plates of British Butterflies, I have introduced in the Additional Title Page three of the most 
remarkable that occur among our native species. The large insect in the lower part of the 
page is a rich and very beautiful variety of the common V. Urticw, which differs in several 
particulars from any variety I have previously met with (see page 27). It is in the possession 
of W. P. Russell, Esq., of Monks Eleigh, Suffolk, and was obtained during the season of 
1859. From the deep cream-coloured bordering of the anterior wings, and the disposition of 
the dark brown-black to fill up nearly all the remainder of the fore-wings, it appears probable 
that it may be a hybrid between /. Urticw and V. Antiopa. 
Above the variety of V. Urticw are two of the remarkable varieties of C. Phileas (the Small 
Meadow Copper), which occur in certain localities not unfrequently. In the lower of the two 
specimens, all the usually rich copper-colour is replaced by a milky white ; while in the upper 
one it is the black that has disappeared, leaving white in its place. (See page 46). 
