THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XXXVII.] 



MAY, 1904. 



[No. 492. 



ON A SERIES OF ABERRATIONS OF EPINEPHELE 



TITHONUS. 



By G. M. Russell, B.Sc. 



In the 'Entomologist' for 1898 (xxxi. p. 293), I recorded the 

 capture, on the chalk downs of the south of Hampshire, of an 

 aberrant specimen of E. tithonus, in which the normal ground 

 colour was replaced by yellow. Since that time I have obtained 

 other zanthic and also albino specimens from the same locality, 

 with the result that I now possess a series of nine varieties in 

 which the usual brownish orange ground colour is replaced by 

 yellow in some specimens, and by white in others. This series 

 of varieties seems to deserve special notice on account of the 

 whole of them having been taken within a very limited area ; 

 one occasionally sees records of captures of odd specimens of 



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