THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XXIX.] 



AUGUST. 1896. 



[No. 399. 



MELITMA CINXIA, ABERRATIONS. 



Although M. cinxia is subject to considerable variation in 

 the pattern of the under surface, which seldom agrees exactly in 

 any two specimens, such striking forms as those represented 

 in the above figures are of very exceptional occurrence. 



Fig. 1 is a remarkably beautiful female : the upper surface 

 of the primaries has all but lost the usual transverse bands 

 crossing the apical half, while the basal half is heavily clouded ; 

 the secondaries are rich fuscous, showing only the submarginal 

 fulvous rings and two small fulvous spots in the discal cell ; the 

 under surface of the secondaries has all the usual black mark- 

 ings so greatly intensified that many of the normally light basal 

 markings are entirely obliterated, giving the specimen a very 

 rich appearance ; crossing the primaries are series of elongated 

 marks. 



Fig. 2, a male, is almost normal on the upper surface, but 

 the pattern of the under surface of the secondaries is very aberrant, 

 the fulvous basal area being almost devoid of markings, the 

 median light band is heavily blotched with black, and the 

 fulvous band strongly outlined with black. Out of some 

 hundreds of specimens I have bred I obtained a somewhat 



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