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My best aberration, a most extraordinary specimen — a female, with 

 the upper-side entirely of a canary -yellow, was taken in a fen in 

 Norfolk. 



Antliocharis cardamines, L. — "When living at Haslemere, in Surrey, 

 I used every year to meet with perfect dwarf specimens — about one- 

 half the normal size — in both sexes, and the males of this variety were 

 invariably the earliest specimens seen, the normal males appearing 

 two or three days later. Similar specimens occurred casually in 

 Pembrokesbire, but were not noticed to be earlier than the rest. In 

 a marshy valley near Pembroke, in one season, I found several males 

 of ordinary size, in which the black apical crescent. was more or less 

 suffused inwards, and in one specimen so much so that the suffusion 

 affected one-third of the orange blotch, being blackest on the nervures. 

 This form was searched for in succeeding years without success. 



Gonepteryx rhamni, L. — Only one aberration observed — a female 

 — in which all the central portion of the fore-wings is tinged with the 

 yellow of the male. This colouring was much more noticeable when 

 it was alive that it is now. The specimen was taken in Surrey. 



Colias Edusa, L. — "We can hardly claim to have any local varia- 

 tions of this species. In ordinary seasons, when it is not a generally 

 common insect, none but typical specimens (with the exception of a 

 rare example of the fixed variety Helice) are taken, but when, as in 

 1876-7, it becomes suddenly plentiful, all sorts of vagaries present 

 themselves. In ground-colour, ranging from lemon to deep orange, 

 with a pink flush, in the breadth and inward suffusion of the black 

 marginal band, in the size and shape of the discal black spot, which is 

 sometimes also pupilled, and in the number and size of the yellowish 

 blotches in the marginal band of the female, which in some specimens 

 disappear altogether. 



Argynnis Aglaia, L.— In the west of Pembrokeshire, where this 

 species is very abundant, many of the females show a tendency to 

 suffusion of the upper-side with steel-black scales. Occasionally, 

 this is very marked. 



Argynnis Selene, P. — Common in Pembrokeshire, in all marshy 

 places, where it is of normal colouring ; but when it is found on the 

 slopes of sea cliffs, darker females occur, which have large, rich 

 brown blotches near the margin of the hind-wings on the under-side. 



Melitcea Artemis, P. — Pound commonly in Surrey and Hants, with 

 the ground-colour entirely of a rich fulvous, but along with these are 



