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were, continue the series of white spots borne by the anterior rings. [Underside 

 not described.] This specimen was reared from a larva found near the river I 

 Clapton Park. Clark, J. A., Entomologist, 1880, xm. p. 73, fig. A coloured 

 figure of the same specimen, Mosley, S. L., PI. 8, fig. H. 



A form very closely similar to the above is figured in black and white by 

 Newman from a specimen in IngalFs collection (fig. 5, n). [This is apparently the 

 specimen given in Zoologist, p. H304.] Newman, British Butterflies, p. 01, liji. A 

 British specimen which nearly approaches this aberration in the absence of the 

 white bars on the costae and in the absence of the black transverse bar i- recorded. 

 In it each of the sub-marginal rows of black spots on the posterior wings is drawn, 

 containing a white spot. In this specimen the In-own-red of the type v. 

 presented by rose-colour. Newman, Entomologist, 1*73, p. 345, fig. 



Another specimen closely resembling this aberrant form is described from New 

 South Wales. Olliff, A. S., Proc. Linn. Hoc, N. 8. W., S. 2, in. p. L250. 



Another specimen closely resembling the above was taken at Graham's Town, 

 S. Africa, and is mentioned by Jenner Weir, Entomologist, 1889, xxn. p. 7:;. 



Another specimen is figured in which the hind-wings are marked as in tie- 

 above, but the anterior wings, though strongly resembling this aberration in the 

 general disposition of the colours, yet differ in details, the chief points of difference 

 being that the white costal bar is only partially obliterated and the white spots on 

 the anal angles of the fore- wings are not developed. 



[This specimen was in Kaden's collection and was presumably European. J 

 Heurich-Schaffer, Bd. i. p. 41, PI. 35, tigs. 157 and 158. 



A description is given of an aberrant form taken at King William's Town, 

 S. Africa, which " closely resembled that figured by Herrich-Schaffer."' Tbimen, 

 R., South-African Butterflies, i. p. 201. 



A specimen (British) resembling the above, but lacking the white spots on the 

 anal angles of the fore- wings and having the marginal row on the hind-wing light- 

 coloured, but not quite white, is figured by Mosley, Pt. in. PI. 3, fig. 3. 



Two specimens were taken in New Jersey, U.S.A., which are stated to have 

 conformed to this aberration. Si'reckkr, Cat. N. Amer. Macrolepidop., p. 187. 



Another British specimen generally resembling Herrich-S chaffer's figure is 

 represented by Mosley, PI. 8, fig. 4. 



In all the above specimens the resemblance, as far at least as the upper surface 

 is concerned, is considerable. With the exception of Herrich-Schaffer's example, 

 the undersides are not figured, but from the descriptions it may he gathered that 

 they also resembled each other though probably not so closely as the upper surfaces. 

 The resemblance between the underside of the Australian specimen an I that figured 

 by Herrich-Schaffer must have been very close. 



"Intermediate between these extreme sports and the normal form are tin 

 examples taken at Cape Town in 1866, 1878 and 1874 — the first by myself in 

 which the fore-wing markings are scarcely affected, hut the hind-wing spots are 

 minutely ocellate and externally prolonged, so as to be confluent with tie 

 ing row of lunules." Tkimen, ibid. pp. 201, 202. 



Another aberration, a Belgian specimen, resembles •* Elijmi" in kind but differs 

 from it in degree. In it also the while bars are absent from the costflB, and tin- 

 brown and black markings of the anterior wings are rearranged in almost exactly 

 the same manner. The posterior wings are modified u> a much less extent and the 

 normal row of black spots between the nervines remains, while only the first and 

 second of the series of white spots is present, the former being very slight. In this 

 individual the markings of the underside also resemble the alienation generally, 

 but it retains the four ocelli of the type. Die DoNCEEL, II. Doni kikk. Ann. S 

 oVEnt. Beige, 1878, xxi. p. 10, Plate. 



A specimen, also Belgian, is described in which the two anterior win J8 n -liihle 

 Herrich-Schaffer's figure in lacking the white bars on the costal and in the arran 

 nient of the black and ground colour. In neither of them are the whit. of the 



anal angles (found in the British ami Australian sp scimens) present. The white 

 markings at the apex of the anterior wings differ on the two sides, being in both 

 of them unlike the type and an approach v> the aberrations in question, hut the 

 degree to which they are developed differs markedly, being greatesl on the right si 

 The left posterior wing resembles the aberration in having the -ix abnormal white 

 spots, but less emphasized than in the figures quoted above; in general colour this wine 

 is darker than the type. The right posterior wing, however, has Qone of the white 

 spots of the aberration, and differs from the type only in being more suffused with 



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