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  who 
  gave 
  me 
  his 
  specimens 
  from 
  Delamere 
  Forest, 
  and 
  has 
  

   borrowed 
  those 
  from 
  Great 
  Orme's 
  Head 
  from 
  Dr. 
  John 
  Cotton, 
  

   who 
  collected 
  them 
  there 
  some 
  twenty 
  years 
  ago. 
  

  

  The 
  distinguishing 
  characters 
  of 
  the 
  races 
  of 
  P. 
  aegon 
  con- 
  

   tained 
  in 
  the 
  collection 
  may 
  be 
  set 
  out 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  (1) 
  Sandy 
  heath 
  form, 
  from 
  the 
  New 
  Forest. 
  

  

  o. 
  Upperside 
  reddish 
  purple, 
  fairly 
  deeply 
  bordered 
  with 
  

   black 
  ; 
  underside 
  dull 
  warm 
  grey. 
  

  

  ?. 
  Upperside 
  warm 
  brown, 
  only 
  very 
  rarely 
  (perhaps 
  1 
  in 
  

   100 
  specimens), 
  washed 
  or 
  sprinkled 
  with 
  purple 
  ; 
  underside 
  

   full 
  cinnamon 
  brown. 
  

  

  (2) 
  Var. 
  cretacea, 
  Tutt, 
  from 
  the 
  North 
  Downs. 
  

  

  (3. 
  Upperside 
  bluish 
  purple, 
  narrowly 
  bordered 
  with 
  black; 
  

   underside 
  French 
  grey. 
  

  

  ?. 
  Upperside 
  brown, 
  only 
  very 
  rarely 
  (perhaps 
  1 
  in 
  100 
  

   specimens) 
  washed 
  or 
  sprinkled 
  with 
  blue; 
  underside 
  pale 
  

   cinnamon 
  brown. 
  

  

  (3) 
  Form 
  from 
  Delamere 
  Forest. 
  

  

  cJ. 
  Resembles 
  (1). 
  $. 
  Resembles 
  (1), 
  but 
  blue 
  forms 
  much 
  

   commoner. 
  Li 
  a 
  sample 
  of 
  17 
  females 
  10 
  have 
  some 
  trace 
  of 
  

   blue 
  on 
  upperside, 
  1 
  has 
  the 
  hind-wing 
  nearly 
  blue 
  except 
  the 
  

   costal 
  border. 
  

  

  (4) 
  Form 
  from 
  Great 
  Orme's 
  Head. 
  

  

  o. 
  Upperside 
  of 
  the 
  reddest 
  shade 
  of 
  purple 
  of 
  any 
  in 
  the 
  

   series, 
  narrowly 
  margined 
  with 
  black; 
  underside 
  warm 
  grey 
  

   intermediate 
  between 
  that 
  of 
  (1) 
  and 
  (2). 
  

  

  ?. 
  Upperside 
  ground-colour 
  as 
  in 
  (2), 
  but 
  in 
  a 
  samjjle 
  of 
  

   12 
  all 
  are 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  purple, 
  of 
  the 
  shade 
  of 
  the 
  c^ 
  ; 
  underside 
  

   pale 
  cinnamon 
  brown. 
  

  

  These 
  sj)ecimens 
  approach 
  (5) 
  in 
  character 
  ; 
  they 
  differ 
  in 
  

   the 
  redder 
  shade 
  of 
  purple 
  of 
  the 
  upperside 
  and 
  the 
  warmer 
  

   shade 
  of 
  the 
  underside 
  in 
  the 
  ^, 
  and 
  the 
  warmer 
  colour 
  of 
  

   the 
  brown 
  u^jperside 
  of 
  the 
  $. 
  

  

  (5) 
  Form 
  from 
  Leven 
  estuary 
  (Holker 
  moss). 
  

  

  cJ. 
  Upperside 
  varies 
  from 
  purplish 
  to 
  nearly 
  pure 
  blue, 
  

   black 
  margin 
  rather 
  narrow; 
  underside 
  ground-colour 
  very 
  

   pale 
  French 
  grey. 
  

  

  $. 
  Upperside 
  ground-colour 
  is 
  of 
  a 
  blacker, 
  less 
  warm, 
  shade 
  

   of 
  brown, 
  in 
  all 
  my 
  (40) 
  specimens 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  washed 
  with 
  

  

  