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labelled " Dovor," one a ciirious small pale laveiuler-bhie ^ , the other, of the same 

 sex, very pale beneath witli all the markings obsolescent. Another old S , probably 

 from Haworth's Collection, taken near Holt, Norfolk, and labelled " maritimus " at 

 side, is very dark bencatli, with the ocelli of the fore-wings much elongated. 



Nemeobiiis liichia, L. — The scries includes several examples from Glanvillcs 

 Wootton. 



SyricJithus alveolus, Hiibn. — There arc no fewer than fifteen examples of the 

 ab. taras, Meig. (also labelled " Lavafenr, Haw., var."), some of which are exceed- 

 ingly fine. Three are labelled respectively "Meek, Standish Cabinet, 1830"; 

 " Bedell Cabinet (J. C. D.)," and " Elton, Trin. Coll., Cam., 1891.." A very dark 

 eiample, witli tjic wliite spots niucli reduced, " var. from J. G. Eoss " (C. \V. D.). 



Steropes paiiiscus, Fab. — A good scries from Monk's Wood, Hunts., and 

 " Castor Hanglands, near Peterborough." 



Famphila comma, L. — One very light-coloured <? , not labelled. 



Pamphila tinea, Fab. — A fine cf aberration, in wliicli the fulvous ground- 

 colour is entirely replaced by whitish-ochrcous or bone-colour. " J. Williamson, 

 Folkestone." 



Paiiqihila lineola, O. — A fine series from Leigh, Esses. 



Pamphila acixon, Rott. — This butlerfiy, discovered as a British species by 

 J. C. Dale at Durdle Door, Dorsetshire, on August loth, 1832 (C. W. Dale, 

 " History of Our British Butterflies," p. 219), is represented by a good series from 

 Swanagc, Lulvvorth, and tlie " Burning Cliff," Dorsetshire. 



" Aorangi," Lonsdale Road, 



Summertown, Oxford : 



April dth, 1907. 



{To he continued). 



