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Greenwich districts are frequently very rosy in tint. A large 

 number of aberrations have been described in the British magazines, 

 e.g., a $ with three large pink blotches on the forewings, another 

 of an extremely pale buff, and a third wholly chocolate in colour ; 

 one of a reddish-brown colour striped with amber, the spots in centre 

 of forewing pale amber instead of white, the under part of body 

 green, resembling a poplar leaf, the underside of wings tinged 

 with a dull golden hue (Ranson, Ent., iv., p. 148); bred imagines ot 

 a light unicolorous fawn-colour, only 2" 2" in expanse, yet from 

 these specimens, almost without markings, some of the finest and 

 most distinctly marked specimens were reared (Gregson) ; a 2 specimen 

 having " the whole of the insect — wings, legs, thorax, and abdomen — 

 of a colour between brick-red and chocolate suffused with a whitish 

 bloom as on ripe fruit ; there is the usual whitish spot on the fore- 

 wings, and also the crimson flush on the hindwings, but no other 

 markings whatever ; the nervures of the wings are bold and distinct 

 and the antennae white " ; pupa from Scarborough (Finch, Ent., 

 xxvi., p. 279). Of some Irish ones, Thornhill says (E?it., xxvii., p. 

 294) " of 36 bred, none of the males are of the red form, and only one 

 tending to a reddish-purple, of the females 5 are of a very light red 

 form, some of the ordinary red form, and the others (11) the same 

 colour as the males." Some handsome aberrations are often bred in 

 Ireland, suffused with lavender at the bases and over the oblique margi- 

 nal band — Mayo and Howth ; also specimens with rich olive-green 

 central band and hind margin and similar lavender suffusions, but also 

 with the discoidal mark very white and prolonged to the costal nervure ; 

 in another, russet takes the place of the green, and the lavender is of a 

 warmer tone, all these possess the usual fuscous patch on the hindwing 

 — Howth, mid-Galway (Kane). Bred a nice rosy form from dug 

 pupae at Worcester (Rea), a light form sparsely scaled from New 

 Forest, a $ in spring of 1890 from larva taken September 9th, 

 1 889, feeding on sallow at Forest Gate, with the usual red markings 

 at the base of the underwings replaced with straw-coloured patches 

 (Mera), whilst Hill notes (E. M. M., xxiii., p. 5) a specimen from 

 Derby with the russet spot on the hindwings wanting. He also 

 records another Derby specimen of the brown form, with a lovely 

 lilac bloom. Some of the Yorkshire specimens bred are suffused with 

 a purplish-red over both fore- and hindwings (Lofthouse), two bred at 

 Gosport 1882, with a mauve pink tinge on the wings (Pierce), bred 1893 

 from larvae taken in Sutherlandshire in 1892, the majority of the usual 

 Scotch form, but in one the prevailing colour was a pinkish-grey and 

 closely resembled two others from the New Forest and Lewisham that we 

 bred (Adkin) ; pale form bred from larva with rows of red spots 

 on both sides at Baldock (Wood) ; a very pale male the same 

 tint as the palest $ and with the usual markings rather in- 

 distinct from Guildford larva (Grover) ; a $ with $? colora- 

 tion also an imago emerged August 6th, 1893, from pupa of same year, 

 in which the discoidal spot on forewings was much smaller and less 

 white than in the rest of the brood which emerged in the spring of 1894 

 (Filer) ; Corbin, Winkley and others observe that the autumnal-bred 

 specimens are inferior in size to their spring relatives. Briggs notes that 

 two imagines that emerged in August, 1887, were lighter than those 

 of the same batch that went over the winter as pupae and emerged 



