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MAY 9 1893 



THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Vol. XXVI.] 



APEIL, 1893. 



[No. 359. 



ARGYNNI8 PAP HI A, ? Ab. 

 By F. W. Frohawk, F.E.S. 



During the last thirteen or fourteen years there have been 

 captured, in the New Forest, white-spotted forms of A. paphia. 



The first recorded examples I am aware of, relating to this 

 singular aberration, are those mentioned by my friend Mr. Jenner 

 Weir (Entom. xiii. 216). In his interesting notes on A. paphia, 

 he states : — " The appearance yearly of this insect with white 

 spots on the wings is worthy of remark; last year {viz., 1879) I 

 was equally fortunate in taking specimens so coloured." A 

 coloured figure of a male of this variety appears in Entom. xv. 

 (PI. I. fig. 3). 



I believe this phase of variation is generally confined to the 

 male sex ; certainly by far the greater number of those I have 

 seen have been males. The size and number of pale spots vary 

 a good deal ; most frequently there is a white spot on each wing ; 

 other specimens have a single spot on one wing only, whilst in 

 others the primaries only are spotted. 



I think the most interesting and remarkable example I know 

 of is that of a female which fell to the net of Mr. J. H. Carpenter, 

 on July 23rd last, which I described in Entom. xxv. 242, and 

 which is represented in the above figure. 



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