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In one of the specimens I have examined, the base of the anterior wings is 

 distinctly darker than the rest of the wing, excepting the central fascia. 



The anteimte of the male are much more strongly ciliated than in the foregoing 

 insect, and the wings broader. 



I have hitherto seen but three examples of this remarkably 

 distinct species, two males and a female : it appears peculiar to the 

 north of England. '' Newcastle."— G. Wailes, Esq.* " Marton 

 Lodge, Feb. 1831."— i^ct'. G. T. Rudd. 



Sp. 3. badiata. Alis anticis subnitidis,fusco-ferrugineis, strigis,fasciolisJim- 

 hridquefuscis, lunula ad marginem externum albd. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 1—2 

 lin.) 



Ge. badiata. Wien. Verz.—Vh. Berberata. Don. xiv. pi. 493./. 1.— Phi. badiata. 

 Steph. CataLpartilp. 139. No. 6608. 



Anterior wings slightly shining, rusty-brown, with two or three somewhat 

 incurved chocolate-coloured strigie at the base, composed of several obsolete 

 ones ; then a pale reddish-white space, bordered without by an obscure deeply 

 crenate duplex fasciola, beyond which is another obscure pale one, the space 

 from wliich to the hinder margin is deep chocolate, with an oblique black line 

 at the apex, and a very obsolete pale striga, in the middle of which is a con- 

 spicuous white lunule, or caret-like mark : posterior wings pale, with the hinder 

 margin and ciha fuscous. 



The anterior wings are sometimes of an uniform tint ; with the strigse more or 

 less perceptible. 



Caterpillar anteriorly dirty-green, posteriorly dull reddish-white, with some black 

 and white lateral spots: head yellowish, with a black spot on each side: it 

 feeds on the dog-rose (Rosa canina) :— the imago appears in February, and 

 again in June or July. 

 Not very uncommon in shrubby places within the metropolitan 



district. " Epping."— ilfr. DoiMeday. " Marton Lodge."— i?^5y. 



G. T. Rudd. " Strand-on-the-green."— i?et;. A. H. Mattherm. 



" Newcastle, Meldon-park,&c. common."— G. Walks, Esq. "York." 



— W. C. Hexoitson, Emq. 



* From whom I have also recently obtained specimens of what seems to be a 

 new species of Polyommatus, intermediate between Po. Agcstis and Artaxerxes, 

 and which I propose calhng Po. Salmacis, thus briefly characterized :— 

 Po. Sahnacis. Alis fusco-nigris, suhtus fuscescentibus viaculis subocellatis, an- 

 ticis supra in masculis puncto discoidali atro, in faminis albo, posticis utrinque 

 fascid submarginali rubrft. (Exp. alar. $ 1 unc. 1 lin. ; ? 1 unc. 2 hn.) 

 " Taken on Castle Eden Dean."— Gr. Wailes, Esq. 



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