MIMAS TILI/E. 40? 



£. ab. costipuncta, Clark, " Ent. Rec," i., p. 329, pi. A., fig. 8 (1891) ; Ckll., 

 "Eat. Rec," ii., p. 16 (1891). — Almost identical in coloration with fig. 7 (ab. 

 centripuncta), but with the transverse band represented by a large costal blotch 

 (Clark). 



Clark figures {Joe. cit., pi. A., fig. 5) another example almost 

 intermediate between ab. costipuncta and ab. centripuncta, which he 

 describes as having " the ground colour of the central area redder 

 than any of the preceding, and with the outer area greener. The spot 

 is intermediate in development between the costal one in fig. 8, 

 and the central one in fig. 7, and is not quite symmetrical, reaching 

 fully to the costa on the right, but not quite on the left ; hindwings 

 dark greyish-fuscous from the band to the base, the outer margin 

 tinged with reddish." 



?;. ab. brunnea, Bartel, "Die Pataeark. Gross-Schmett.,'' ii., p. 149(1900); 

 Voelschow, " Soc. Ent.," xv., p. 122 (1901). Brunnescens, Staud., "Cat.," 

 3rd ed., p. 100 (1901). — c? and ?. Marked as in the type, but the green 

 coloration entirely wanting. A dark reddish-brown is the prevalent ground- 

 colour, especially of the forewings. This aberration is found everywhere with 

 the type (Bartel). Austro-Hungary : Upper Austria not rare (Himsl) ; Bukovina 

 (Hormuzaki) ; Galicia — Lemberg (Garbowoki) ; Hungary — Epiries (Husz), Tavar- 

 nok, Buda-Pesth (teste Bartel). Belgium: Huy (teste Bartel). France : Haute- 

 Garonne (Caradja), Montmorency, near Paris. Germany: Stuttgart, more common 

 than the type (Hoffmann and Keller), Schwerin- Mecklenburg ( Voelschow), Crefeld, 

 rare, Leipzig, very rare, Thuringia (Krieghoft), Wiirtemberg, Baden, rarer than 

 the type, Nassau, Bavarian Palatinate (Spuler), Alsace (Peyerimhoff). Roumania : 

 Comanesti, Grumazesti, abundant in 1895, etc. (Caradja). Russia : St. Petersburg, 

 etc. (teste Bartel). Switzerland : Aigle (Lowe). 



This was originally a trade name of Staudinger's, which 

 obtained general usage without being described until Bartel 

 diagnosed it. A year later Staudinger himself renamed it brunnescens 

 and noted it as " brunnescens, nee viridescens." Riding criticises 

 (Ent. Rec, ix., pp. 150-15 1) Barrett's assertion that the red colour 

 of this species is generally due to changes produced after emer- 

 gence, and observes that this is incorrect as a general statement, 

 . that he has a bred $ and ? entirely reddish and yellow- 

 brown and without a trace of green. Clark's plate (Ent. Rec, 

 i., pi. A) should have prevented Barrett's statement. Voelschow 

 observes that, in June, 1900, he put out a $ and she was found 

 in the morning paired with a $ ab. brunnea, which w T as remarkable 

 for its black-coloured hindwings, the area of the forewings 

 between the uninterrupted brown central band and the marginal 

 area being densely sprinkled with black scales. Lowe captured a 

 beautiful rust-brown specimen, without a tinge of green, at Aigle, 

 July 3rd or 4th, 1898. The following notes refer to this aberration : 

 Not rare with the type in Upper Austria, bred by Angele on February 

 21st, 1896 (Himsl); rarer than the green form in Baden (Spuler), dark 

 red-brown aberration bred from Sutton in June, 1888 (Lee). Frohawk 

 (Ent., xv., p. 130) bred April 23rd, 1882, one specimen remark- 

 able for entire absence of green ; all the markings usually green, are 

 light burnt sienna-red, the usual whitish blotch at tip of fore wing 

 pink; ground colour also pink, in places slightly tinged with grey ; 

 thorax and abdomen also of same colour. 



9. ab. suffusa, Clark, "Ent. Rec," i., p. 329, pi. A., fig. 10 (1891) ; Ckll., 

 " Ent. Rec," ii., p. 16 (1891). — Anterior wings dark olive-green, with central 

 area tinged with pink, crossed by a deep olive-green band, almost joined at one 

 point on the right-hand wing ; hindwings, except on margin bordering the abdomen 

 where the colour is pale, deep fuscous-black (Clark). 



