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visit Devon in March and April, and therefore I cannot speak of the 
brood that hybernates as pups, the later spring brood and the summer 
brood are very closely similar in colour and pattern. The April New 
Forest form, however, entirely agrees with Dr. Perkins’ hypothesis, it 
is decidedly paler above, and the spots are larger and paler, giving the 
insect an altogether lighter appearance, which contrasts markedly with 
the September emergence. I have found the species by no means un- 
common at Lyndhurst in that month, and it approximates quite closely 
to the Devon late August examples. I was at Bovey last year during 
July and the first part of August, and I took one specimen on July 6th 
and another on July 11th, both somewhat worn—these were evidently 
late stragelers—both were females—from the May and June brood, then 
came a gap, and on July 21st I took a fresh male, then followed 
another gap, and on July 80th the summer emergence began 
thoroughly. 
I have taken the species in the Cotswolds, Wales, and elsewhere, 
and I agree that on the whole our form is slightly, but very slightly, 
smaller than the German race with the pale spots, which spots are on 
the whole slightly smaller. The Irish race, pallida, Tutt, of which I 
have a fair series, is very decidedly greyer and paler than the form I 
have been speaking of and the spots are larger and paler. On the 
underside there is also a marked difference between the early first 
emergence and the summer one, the hindwings have the median fascia 
entirely filled in with dark colour and are generally richer in tone than 
the late spring and summer emergences ; this character also applies to 
my Lyndhurst examples, the early spring specimens being very pretty 
indeed. I have a nice series sent me by my late regretted friend 
Frank Lowe, from Guernsey, and these form a pretty, not half-way 
house but perhaps a third of the way, towards the Mediterranean true 
aegeria, they are smallish, if anything under the size of the British 
race, but with the pale spots much more ochreous, and the brown 
colour much browner and darker, the ochreous spots are also larger 
than in our island forms. 
Pararge megera, li.—I have not been able to secure specimens of 
Verity’s form caledonica, but my friend says most of our specimens 
are transitional to it; the species is a common one in both its broods 
throughout Devonshire and it is quite abundant around Dartmoor. 
I have been comparing these, as also numerous specimens from Wales, 
with those I have taken on the Continent. Ido not happen to have 
any from Central Europe, but between those I have taken in Switzer- 
land, at Digne, and the Pyrenees, both “‘Orientales” and ‘‘ Hautes,” the 
differences are practically nil, if I were to mix up specimens I have 
from Digne, the Pyrenees and Eclepens, with any Devonshire or 
Welsh series, I could not separate them except by their labels, the 
marginal band, the androconial streak, and the other characters are 
identical. The suffusion with black scales of the under-surface is 
largely, I believe, a question of freshness. I have a nice series from 
Toreross in which they are quite absent, and many from Deyon are 
similarly wanting, whilst a very fresh series from Criccieth, N. Wales, 
have these scales quite prominently; on the other hand, however, it 
is to be observed that specimens from Aosta and from Geneva have a 
considerable suffusion thereof. 
E’pinephele jurtina, L.—I have been unable to ascertain whether 
