POLYOMMATUS ICARUS. 119 1 



in lift., and Ent. Bee, viii., p. 272); now in the Sheldon coll. (Sheldon, 

 in litt.). 



A. — Right wings <? , left wings 2 , brown and spotted as in the ordinary 2 . 

 Captured June 22nd, 1889, at Keyingbam, in south-west Yorkshire (Boult, Ent., 

 xxi., p. 211 ; Proc Ent. Soc Lond., 1889, p. xlvi). 



p.. — Right wings J , left wings 2 . Captured by Chatwin, at Dover, in 1887. 

 Sold with the Briggs' coll. to Sheldon, for £1 15s., at Stevens', on October 22nd, 

 1896 (Briggs, in litt.). Now in the Sheldon coll. (Sheldon, in litt., and Ent. Bee, 

 viii., p. 272). Webb notes (Ent., xxi., p. 133) that a hermaphrodite, captured at 

 Dover in 1887, had been brought under his notice; no doubt this specimen. 



v. — Right side o T , left side 2 ; body on the right side also of 3 , on the left 

 side of ? , coloration ; the genitalia on the left ? , whilst on the right side a clasp 

 is developed. In the possession of Hvckel-Ratibor (Schultz, Woch. fiir Ent., iii., 

 p. 103). 



$. — Hermaphrodite, exhibited City of London Entomological Society's meeting, 

 held April 27th, 1897, by J. A. Clark (Trans. City Lond. Knt. Soc, 1897, p. 17). 

 Right side <z , left side ? , anal end apparently z . Captured in Epping Forest, 

 1892. Clark coll. (Burrows, in litt., September, 1907). Sold at Stevens',. 

 November 2nd, 1909 (lot 109), for 13s., to Janson. 



o. — Right side <f , left side 2 . Noted in Ribbe's " Price List of Lepidoptera," 

 no. 14, 1902-3 (Schultz, Berl. Ent. Zeits., 1904, p. 81). No hint as to the collec- 

 tion it ultimately reached. 



tv. — Right side s , left side ? . " Mason coll." ; sold at Stevens' (lot 105), 

 March 14th, 1905, for 16s., to J. A. Clark (Ent., xxxviii., p. 114). Sold again at 

 Stevens' December 7th, 1909, for 15s., to Dr. T. A. Chapman (Chapman, in litt.). 



p. — Right side s , left side 2 , large specimen ; left forewing of the blue-scaled; 

 2 form, from Dover. Webb coll. (Barrett, Lep. Brit. Isles, pi. xi., fig. 2/). 



s. — Right side cT , left side ?. Briggs' coll. (Ent., xi., p. 101). Sold at 

 Stevens', October 22nd, 1896, to Capt. Vipan (Briggs, in litt. ; Ent. Bee, viii., 

 p. 272). 



t. — Right side i , left side 2 . Taken by F. Stansell, Taunton, August 15th, 

 1880. Maddison coll. Bought at Stevens', February 23rd, 1909, for £2, by 

 Newman, for the "Bright coll." (L. W. Newman, in litt.). 



v. — Right side g , left side 2 . Taken on Wandsworth Common in 1860, by 

 Wellman, was sold at Stevens', in 1894, for £2 14s., to R. Adkin (Ent., 1894, p. 

 244; and R. Adkin, in litt.). 



(p. — Right side g , left side ? . Captured in Hainault Forest, 1852 (Sheppard, 

 Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1852, p. 34). 



Halved — but unrecorded as to which side is $ and which 2 • 



a. — The wings on one side c? , those on the other 2 , the characteristic mark- 

 ings of each sex being very distinct. Captured September 5th, 1868, at Westwood, 

 near Scarborough (Rowntree, Entom., iv., p. 147). 



j8. — A hermaphrodite, rather worn, taken August 21st, 1880, near Eastbourne 

 (Dewey, Ent., xiii., p. 240 ; Trans, City Lond. Ent. Soc, 1893, p. 49 ; Riihl, Pal. 

 Gross- Schmett., p. 760 ; Schultz, Illus. Zeits. fiir Ent., iii., p. 103). 



7. — A hermaphrodite taken near Sturton, North Notts, August, 1881 (Gibbs, 

 Ent., xv., p. 89). 



5. — A specimen with the s and 2 clearly represented on the opposite pairs of 

 wings ^Edgell, Ent., xx., p. 302). 



e. — A fine hermaphrodite. Captured August, 1877, at Hastings, on a small 

 waste slip of land nearly two miles from the sea (Sotheby, Ent., x., p. 253). 



'{. — A gynandromorph sold at Stevens', November 23rd, 1897, for 20s., from 

 the Hodgkinson coll. (no details forthcoming) (Ent. Bee, ix., p. 336). 



Not absolutely halved longitudinally. 



a. — Right side i , left side 2 . The left hindwing with a costal band of s 

 colour, wider on the outer margin than at the base. Moderate size, poor condition 

 (the right hindwing torn). [Now (January, 1910) labelled " Polyommatus thestylis, 

 Jerm.," ? by South, who arranged the cabinet, but certainly nothing to do with 

 tltestylis.'} British Museum coll. (Tutt) (Lefebvre, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1835, p. 146 ; 

 Schultz, III. Woch. fiir Ent., i., p. 322). 



/3. — Right side j , left side 2 . The left forewing and left hindwing both with 

 a costal band of 3 colour, on the hindwing not reaching to the apex. Of rather 

 large size. This specimen is figured by Humphreys and Westwood (Brit. Butts.,. 



