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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Vol. XXVI.] OCTOBEK, 189 3. [No. 365. 



■ EPINEPIIELE HYPERANTHES, vak. 



The above figure represents a female example of an un- 

 common variety of Epinephele hyperanthes. 



Mr. Weir captured a specimen of this form in the New Forest 

 in 1878, and one or two specimens have since been taken in the 

 same district. In his interesting remarks on this aberration, 

 which he terms the lanceolate form, Mr. Frohawk (Entom. xxv. 

 315) states that in 1891 he captured a typical female specimen 

 of E. hyperanthes in the New Forest, and from ova which she 

 deposited he obtained seven imagines in 1892. Three of these 

 (two males and one female) were somewhat similar, as regards 

 markings, and the female specimen, here figured, Mr. Frohawk says 

 is the finest example of this particular form he has yet seen. 



It is probably well known that the ocellated markings of this 

 species are subject to considerable variation in the matters of 

 number, size, and definition. As a rule, there are three well- 

 formed ocelli on the under surface of fore wings and five on that 

 of hind wings, but these are either not present at all or only 

 slightly indicated on the upper surface of the wings. Occasionally 

 specimens, generally females, occur with three well-marked ocelli 

 on fore wings and two on the hind wings, whilst on the under 

 surface the hind wings have an additional ocellus, thus increasing 

 the number to six. Sometimes the yellowish irides are abnormally 



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