440 [November, 



Lycxna Mgon — caught in many localities, Soholt, Sande, Koms- 

 dale, &c. L. Icarus — Christiania, Bergen, Faleide, &c. L. Pheretes, 

 Jerkin, common, rather smaller and perhaps not quite of so bright a 

 colour as Swiss specimens, the outer row of spots on the inferior 

 surface of the fore-wing is wanting in several of the males, the central 

 discoidal spot alone remaining. It is strange that our northern 

 variety, Artaxerxes, should bave the same peculiar unocellated spots 

 on the lower wing as the two mountain insects, Lyccena Pheretes and 

 L. orbitulus. 



Vanessa c-album — in the former paper this was heedlessly spoken 

 of as V. comma. V. urticoe — has been before mentioned ; last year, 

 1888, the larvae were so abundant in the Eomsdale, that every nettle 

 was stripped of all its leaves. It must not be thought that the form 

 "polaris " is met with in the high Alps, because one was reared by me 

 from a Visp Valley larva ; aberrations of all sorts more often occur 

 in bred insects, and this was doubtless one of these accidental appear- 

 ances. 



Melitcea Athalia — of this species I took one female near the 

 Chalets on the way to Storhatten, above Ormeim, which differs very 

 slightly from a female caught in South Devon. Its alar expanse is 

 39 mm. On the upper-side the English specimen has the transverse 

 lines, perhaps, a trifle broader, the spots also which form the tawny 

 bands on the lower wings are rather larger, and not quite so crescent- 

 shaped. On the inferior surface the difference is a little more marked ; 

 in the Devonshire insect the upper wings are tawny, excepting the 

 external and posterior borders, both of which are bright straw-yellow ; 

 in the Norway specimen the posterior border alone is of this colour, 

 and paler. The tawny ground-colour in the British specimen has 

 black markings, forming dotted lines, extending for about one-third 

 the breadth of the wing ; in the Ormeim insect the lines are dusky, 

 not black, but extending the whole breadth ; the inferior wings are 

 much the same, save that the Devon insect is rather brighter ; the 

 palpi in both are white on the outside, with a slight tendency to 

 become tawny at the apex. The Dovref jeld specimens are very small, 

 varying in alar expanse from 30 to 35 mm., but the colour and mark- 

 ings of those taken by me did not differ materially from dark forms 

 of Athalia. 



Argynnis JZuphrosyne — is common in many places, and many were 

 taken in the Komsdale which do not appear to differ at all from our 

 usual type ; but in a swamp at Tonset a small dark form was met with 



