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Collar hyale, L. — Tliirteen examples, but no notewoi'thy variations. 

 Arge cjalathea, L.— One J, witli flie ground-colour rallier dark oclireous- 

 yollow, perhaps due to age ; one very dark example, corresponding closely with the 

 Soutli European var. procida, Hubn., on a large common black pin, labelled " Fi'om 

 J. G-. Ross, 1879 " (C. W. D.). (Tliere is a similar specimen, ex coll. Spilsbury, in 

 the fine collection of British butterflies in the Oxford University Museum). An 

 exceedingly beautiful and striking variety of thee? , in fine condition ; the fore-wings 

 above being entirely deep black, except for the large basal and inner-marginal 

 white spots, which are nearly normal, and the submarginal spots, which are much 

 reduced. Tlie basal spot and submarginal spots of the hind-wings differ but little 

 from those of (he ordinary form, hut the bi-oad central white band is obliterated to 

 f lio middle of the wing by the black ground-colour, and its inner marginal portion 

 is much suffused with black scales. The under-side of both wings is also strongly 

 suffused with dark grey, except on the hind-margins, all the usual markings being 

 smudged and nearly obliterated, and the ocelli on tlie hind-wings fairly distinct. 

 Of this fine variety, which bears the label, " Dover, by Le Plaistrier, figured in 

 Loudon's Mag. 1832" (C. W. D.), there is a brief description by the Rev. W. T. 

 Bree, as well as a beautiful and accurate woodcut representing the upper and under- 

 sides, in " London's Magazine of Natural History," vol. V, p. 335, fig 73 (1832). 



Satyrus temele, L.— A fine and varied series of 42 examples, including one <J 

 with no trace of the usual ocelli on either side, except a minute black dot at the 

 apex of the fore-wings beneath ; four very brightly-marked specimens, one ? 

 especially so, approaching the S. European form aristxus, Bon., " Dcrry, 1889, 

 Curzon." Some pale but well-marked examples from Rannoch, and several under- 

 sides from Cornwall (Bude and the Lizard), very like the finely-marked form found 

 in the West of Ireland. 



Satyrus xgeria, L.— One S with the dark brown ground colour replaced by 

 a rather pale sepia sliade ; one $ in poor condition, almost without markings above, 

 "Goodman Sale, Stevens, 25 Nov., 1890 " (C. W. D.), and a nearly similar $ 

 example, but in better condition, " P. Bouchard, 18(10 " (C W. C). 



Satyrus megcera, L. — Some very pale ? specimens, one from " Rev. F. O. 

 Morris, Charmouth, July, 1831," and another labelled at side "var. lyssa, Bdv." 

 (C. W. D.),and bearing a label "near Sandsfoot Castle, Aug., 1836, A. Pretor." 

 This remarkable variety is above almost exactly like a small ? of Pararge masra 

 var. adrasta, Hb ; the under-side is that of rather pale but otherwise typical 

 megiera. 



Satyrus hyperanthiis, L.--Six fine examples of the ab. arete, O., one of these 

 from "Glanvilles Wootton, July, 1895 " (C. W. D.), and two of the fine ? variety 

 with the ocelli beneath enlarged and elongated (var. lanceolafa, Shipp), labelled 

 " Middlemarsh, Aug. 5lh, 1816" (C. W. D.). Mr. C. W. Dale's register shows 

 this specimen to have been taken by his fatlier. 



<S'a^,(/;-«*^"rt«;m, L.— An exceptionally fine series of varieties and aberrations, 

 of which the following may be noted : 



One 3 , almost uniform pale warm brovv)i above, the sexual brand on fore-wings 

 slightly darker, and the apical ocellus indicated on both sides by a white-pupillod 

 light greyish-brown spot ; the under-side of hind-wings pale fawn-colour. Labelled 



