THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
No. 129.] MAY, MDCCCLXXIV, [Price 6d. 
Meritma SELENE ? VARIETY. 
Melitea Selene ? variety.—This singular specimen, which 
is in the rich collection of Mr. Stevens, almost defies every 
attempt to fix its specific name. The colour on the upper 
side is fulvous, or raw-sienna brown marked with black, in 
the manner which the clever drawing by Mr. Willis so well 
indicates: the fore wings have three amorphous blotches in 
a longitudinal series beneath the costa and above the middle 
of the wing; the wing-rays are incrassated by black margins, 
and each intervening area is divided by a short transverse 
bar; on the left-hand wing four of these areas have each an 
oblong narrow spot near the middle; the hind wings are 
dark, almost black, but not without paler spaces and reflections 
in the basal portion; each has also a submarginal series of 
six oblong fulvous spots. The under side can scarcely be 
described, the black, brown, fulvous, and silver, are so mixed 
up, and so entirely without distinguishing specific characters. 
-Edward Newman. 
* VOL. VII. Oo 
