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Many remarkable varieties of this species exist, especially on the underside. 

 Stephens, in his "Illustrations/' gives the following :^- 



Var. d. With the ocelli beneath more or less confluent. 



Var. c. With the fulvous band on the hinder margin of all the wings 

 obliterated. 



Var. d. With the humeral spots of the anterior wings beneath obliterated; 



Var. e. With all the ocellated dots beneath very small, and several of them 

 deficient. 



Var./. With the central discoidal spot alone remaining, the marginal 

 fascia merely indicated by a few indistinct dusky lunules. 



The varieties in ocellation are endless : some have the ocelli nearly round, 

 others more or less elongate ; some very large, others extremely small ; the 

 white blotch on the posterior wings beneath, also varies much in size and 

 form. 



A few named varieties exist. 



Var. Ceronus, Esp., is a form of the female which is very much suffused 

 with blue on the hindwings, and the male has a marginal band of fulvous 

 spots on the upper surface of all the wings. 



Var. Urania, Bischaff, is a form of the male found in Turkey, which is 

 black, suffused with blue ; this is perhaps the same as the Polona of Zeller, 

 which occurs on the mountains of Asia Minor. 



Var. Cinnus, Hub., has the spots on the underside of the posterior wings 

 not ocellated. Besides these, there are other remarkable varieties. I have 

 a female of the same colour as the male, thus corresponding to the var. 

 Syngrapha of Corydon. Mr. Briggs has a female with dashes of the male 

 colour on the tip of one wing, and females are occasionally very much suffused 

 with blue. A very strange variety was taken at Folkestone in September, 

 1875, being very dark bluish-black on the upperside with a bluish-gray fringe, 

 and shot with coppery reflection on the underside. Mr. Briggs has a female 

 which is almost black on the underside, with the exception of a white central 

 ring on each wing, and the marginal row of fulvous spots ; and Mr. Stevens 

 has another which is unusually pale on both the upper and under sides. 



The egg of Adonis is small, round, and of a light dull grey, with white 

 reticulation and knobs. 



The Caterpillar is very similar to that of Corydon, but is of a deeper and 

 darker green, the hairs it is covered with are black. There is a double dorsal 

 row of eight humps or segments. The side spreads out to a rounded ridge 

 running round the body, and hiding the legs from view when the caterpillar 

 is at rest. 



