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Remarkable variety of Cynthia Cardui. 



Mr. Newman also exhibited a specimen of Cynthia Cardui, showing a remarkable 

 aberration from the normal colouring: it was taken on the 8th of September, 1851, at 

 St. Lawrence, in the Isle of Wight, by Mr. George Ingall, who most obligingly 

 placed it in Mr. Newman's hands, and enabled him to draw up the following brief 

 description, which appeared at the time at p. 3304 of the ' Zoologist,' but the insect 

 never having been exhibited to the Society, Mr. Newman thought it might be 

 interesting : — 



" Upper side : fore wings. — In examples of Cynthia Cardui in its normal state, 

 the entire apical area is of a deep brown colour, approaching to black, and adorned 

 with certain white markings, the chief of which is a large oblong white blotch, 

 situated at about two-thirds of the costal margin, to which its upper extremity is 

 closely approximate; beyond this are four subrotuud white spots disposed in an 

 irregular series, the first and fourth being considerably larger than those which are 

 intermediate, and again, beyond these, and still nearer the apex of the wing, is a 

 sinuous series of five slender white lunules : in the aberrant example the large white 

 mark, as well as the lunules, are entirely absent ; the four subrotund spots are present, 

 but altered in form, and having indistinct and suff'used limits : the lowest of the four 

 is increased to treble its normal dimensions, and united to an equally large and 

 similarly shaped white spot in the adjoining areolet, and again, in the next areolet, 

 i. e., the one still nearer the anal angle of the wing, is still another smaller round 

 white spot: in normal specimens the fulvous discoidal area is blotched with very dark 

 amorphous patches, in the aberrant example these are entirely absent, the discoidal 

 area being uninterruptedly fulvous : in the normal state the black border of the anal 

 portion of the external margin is of an intense dark brown, in the aberrant example 

 it is much paler, and increased to double its usual width. Upper side : hind wings. — 

 In normal examples of this species there is an interrupted band of dark brown 

 markings across the discoidal area ; nearer the exterior margin is a series of five 

 round black spots, one in each of the open areolets, with the exception of that nearest 

 the anus ; again, beyond this is a series of six elongate black lunules, one in each 

 open areolet: in the abnormal example, all these markings are absent but nearly on 

 the site of the five round black spots are five round pure white spots, of which that 

 nearest the anal angle has an indistinct brown ocellus. The black marginal markings 

 which, in the normal state, have been described as hastate, are in the aberrant ex- 

 ample suffused and considerably altered in appearance. Under side. — This partakes, 

 in a great degree, of all the remarkable aberrations noticeable on the upper side, but, 

 in addition, the entire under surface has a washed or suffused appearance, all the 

 distinctness or sharpness, so to speak, of the usual exquisitely beautiful marbled 

 markings being obliterated." 



A ihous campyloides. 



Mr. Newman also exhibited the three specimens of Athous campyloides taken by 

 that indefatigable collector, the late Mr. Robert Foster, on the blossoms of elder, at 

 Ramsgate, and described at p. 509 of the first volume of the ' Entomological 

 Magazine.' Mr. Newman had lately submitted the specimens to the critical 



