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confluent form winoides, and in all years this form is very 

 plentiful there. 



I have no lonicene. vars., and, as far as British specimens are 

 concerned, can find none taken in Surrey, but I have put in a few 

 from York, one from Bridlington, and one from the New Forest. 



In this drawer I have a number of specimens of A. fiUpendulai 

 from this country and the Continent. The varieties shown are : — 



ab. tlava, the yellow form. 



ab. cf/tisi, in which the spots are confluent in pairs. 



ab. ochsenheimeri. A specimen of this form sent me from central 

 Italy appears to be practically identical with var. hippocrepidis. 



var. Jiipporrepidi^. A form with the black border broad, tending 

 towards of that of A. trifolii, and the sixth spot bisected by a black 

 vein. 



With regard to this form, Barrett does not mention it ; Seitz., 

 who terms it ab. tHtti, defines it merely as having a " broad black, 

 sinuous marginal band to hindwing." South states that in two 

 localities where he finds it there was a flourishing colony of A. 

 trifolii in each case : and for this reason, plus the fact that A. 

 trifolii and A. fdipendnhe. are known to pair, he considers hippo- 

 crepidis a hybrid between the two. 



A good locality for hippocrejiidis is Pickett's Hole, and as both A. 

 trifolii and A. filipendtthi; occur there plentifully, and late A. trifolii 

 may overlap early A. filipenduhc, a summary of the results bred 

 from a number of A. nlipendula pupte from that locality this year 

 may be of interest. Out of seventeen specimens emerging between 

 June 26th and July 8th, only four had the narrow border and no 

 trace of vein division of the sixth spot, and one of these is ab. 

 eijtisi, i.e., spots confluent in pairs, and another has spots 8, 4 and 

 5 joined by a red line, two have the narrow border and but faint 

 trace of sixth spot division, two have narrow borders and decided 

 spot division (one of these is a dwarf, 26mm.). Eight are typical 

 hijijiocrepidis, and one is a beautiful yellow specimen, ab. liava. 



A circumstance I have not seen mentioned before is a decided 

 tendency for the sixth spot in hippocrepidis to obsolescence ; and I 

 have included specimens from Mickleham with the sixth spot 

 missing, yet they were bred from amongst a number of cocoons 

 which gave otherwise typical A. fHipendnUr. Also one five-spot 

 hippocrepidis from St. Anne's-on-Sea. 



The specimens of A. transalpina in the same drawer indicate the 

 decided difi"erence in coloration of ,the typical form as compared 



