156 Dr. T. A. Chapman and Mr. G. C. Champion on 
fresh they have a very distinct metallic or iridescent 
sheen. The discal spot has, I fancy, the white addition 
more frequently than the Andalusian specimens. No 
figures I have seen present it, so that it seems to be 
regarded an an aberration. Rambur says it is present 
“interdum” and “ souvent ;” of my 92 specimens only 6 are 
without it, and of these only one is in sufficiently fine 
condition to be trustworthy, the others may have had a 
few scales that have been lost, a good many of the 86 
that show it having it reduced to only a few scales. So 
that in my specimens to be without the white scalesis the 
aberration and not at all a common one. (Perhaps the 
greatest difference from astrarche isin the form of the wing, 
which is almost the same in both sexes, rounded, especially- 
towards the apex, without any trace of the produced sharp 
tip to the wing that often is seen in f astrarche and is 
indeed a sexual character of the species as in many 
coppers. ) 
The discal spot varies much in size and shape and in 
the amount of white addition. It is not often lunulate 
simply, usually it is angulated having a point directed to 
the hind margin and sometimes another directed basally 
giving the black spot asquare form. The white addition is 
on the inner and outer margin of the spot, usually both, 
and it is common for the outer portion to be divided in two 
by the outer point of the black spot above referred to; ina 
very few specimens the black spot is very large and the 
white abundant, in these both white and black are produced 
in a radiating manner both basally and towards the hind 
margins. The separation of the median row of ocelli on 
the under-side from the margin orange ones, which 
Rambur points out is very marked especially on the fore- 
wings, the ocelli between veins 4 and 5 are widely apart, 
in astrarche their white bodies are almost always in 
contact. 
Rambur describes the orange spots of the under-side as 
pale and sometimes wanting on the fore-wing and the 
apical one as being white instead of orange. In the 
Galician specimens the orange is just appreciably less 
bright than in astrarche but tending to fuscous rather 
than to being pale, the orange only a little reduced in the 
apical spot. The double spot at anal angle rarely shows a 
trace of orange, its place being taken by a fuscous extension 
of its dark inner margin, and the white outer margin being 
