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fore-wing underside, a female upperside with the orange 

 scaling running into the second quarter of the fore-wings, two 

 female specimens with an orange streak near the discoidals 

 of the fore-wings, two female specimens without trace of 

 orange on the upper sides, one female specimen with the 

 whitish discoidal spots on the fore-wings not centred with 

 black, and numerous females more or less completely suffused 

 with blue. 



Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited a series of Polyommatus icarus 

 showing some very extreme forms of the female. A specimen 

 from Worcester Park, taken in 1893, had the ground colour 

 even a brighter blue than that of normal males. Another 

 female from the same place was of a mauve-blue shade. One 

 specimen from West Horsley had wedge-shaped white spots 

 on the upper side of the hind-wings. An example from the 

 New Forest was exceptionally large, with very bold marginal 

 spots. An underside was shown with confluent markings 

 on the inner margin of the fore-wings. Another, not quite 

 symmetrical, specimen had confluent markings at the anal 

 angle of the hind-wings ; it was taken at Sandown. 



Mr. R. Adkin's exhibit included series from Orkney, 

 Hebrides, and various parts of the Scottish mainland ; 

 Ireland ; the Isle of Man ; Scilly Isles ; North Wales, and 

 the north and south of England. Taken as a whole, the 

 individuals comprising the Orcadian, Hebridian and Irish 

 series were larger and more robust than any of the others, 

 and in that respect showed a marked contrast with those 

 from the south of England ; the females were fully as large as 

 the males, and showed a preponderance of strongly blue- 

 marked specimens with the red submarginal spots unusually 

 large. In regard to individual variation, three males were 

 of a Jiylas colour, one of them having been taken in Kin- 

 cardineshire, one at Boxhill, Surrey, and one at Eastbourne, 

 Sussex, the two latter being somewhat undersized. A female 

 captured at Keston, Kent, was of a very pale blue colour. 

 Among the undersides were many variations of the number 

 and arrangement of the spots, the most frequent being a 

 running together of those near the inner margin of the fore- 

 wings into a horseshoe-like mark. The series also included 

 a gynandromorphous specimen taken by the late Mr. Well- 

 man, on Wandsworth Common, in i860, 



Mr. Hy. J.Turner's specimens included females with much 

 blue suffusion ; females without traces of blue; females with 

 whitish streaks and markings ; females with very bright, well- 

 developed, orange submarginal patches on all the wings ; 



