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BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



pi. xxxiv., fig. 11*), the blue on the margin overdone. British Museum coll. (Tutt) 

 (Lefebvre, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1835, p. 146; Schultz, III. Woch. fiir Ent., L, 

 p. 322). 



7. — Right side $ , left side ? , the latter rather shot with blue, and with a 

 small wedge-shaped, lavender-coloured streak, extending partly across the hind- 

 wing. Captured on the downs near Winchester, August 23rd, 1879 (Weston, Ent., 

 xii., p. 58). 



8. — Right wings <? , the left wings ? , except that the right forewing has a 

 narrow dark band, reaching from the tip to the base of the anterior wing, and a 

 similar band along the upper edge of the right hindwing, with one indistinct red 

 spot; the right antenna longer than the left. Captured June 10th, 1888, on the 

 •downs near Brighton (Brazenor, Ent., xxi., p. 185). 



e. — Right side ? , left side 3 , except that each wirig on the left side has a 

 stripe of the ? colouring (Lang, Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1881, p. x). 



£. — Right side ? , with fulvous lunules ; left forewing blue, except a longi- 

 tudinal band of brown colour, commencing at the base and reaching almost to the 

 fringe, and at the end of which are two orange lunules (really only one and a half); 

 left hindwing blue in its upper half, brown with orange lunules in its lower half 

 (nervure 4 marks the separation of the two colours); the body is covered with blue 

 scales on the left side, brown on the right. Captured at Arcine, at the foot of 

 Mt. Vuache (Haute-Savoie), June 20th, 1909. Blachier coll. To be figured Bull. 

 Soc. Lep. Geneve, ii., pi. L, fig. 2 (Blachier, in litt.). 



7]. — Left side d , right side $ , but the right forewing has an irregular blotch 

 of <? colouring on its lower half. Dover, July or August, 1878. Mosley, in his 

 Illus. Vars. Brit. Lep., no. 7, pi. iii., fig. 2, has wrongly recorded "1877 " for "1878," 

 as also in the Nat. Journal, 1896, pi. iii., fig. 15 ; but both these plates make the 

 outlines of the sex portions of the right forewing too distinct (T. H. Briggs, in litt.. 

 20. i. 1910). 



6. — Left side c? , right side ? , except for a large triangular patch extending 

 from the base and inner margin to the outer margin, and occupying almost two- 

 thirds of the right hindwing. Boisduval coll. Figured by Oberthiir (Etudes, xx.. 

 pi. iv., fig. 47). 



Sexual coloration irregularly mixed. 



a. — Left side ? , the costal margins of right fore- and hindwings with a blue 

 band along the costal margins of each, 3mm. bioad. The left underside brown- 

 grey ( ¥ ), the right underside blue-grey ( J ). The right wings 1mm. longer than 

 the left. The submedian series of ocellated. spots, and the orange marginal band, 

 more strongly developed on the left side than on the right, but the basal areas of 

 the right side much bluer than the left. Captured near Gera. In coll. R. Dierorf 

 {Gillmer, Ent. Zeits. Guben, xix., p. 157). 



/3. — Preponderantly ? . Right wings ? , though pervaded by the blue colora- 

 tion of the i ; left wings purely ? . Antennae, body, and genitalia ? . In coll. 

 Hartmann, Reichenbach (Schultz, Woch. fiir Ent., ii., p. 365). The Hartmann 

 coll. is now (1910) distributed (Gillmer). 



y. — Right forewing J , except for the median nervure and its branches, which 

 are brown with two orange spots at fcheir termination ; the right hindwing with 

 the costal margin to the disc d , the outer and inner margins $ ; the left fore- 

 wing, basal area to disc g , hindwing with a streak of blue from base to middle of 

 outer margin; other parts ? (Tutt). Sent by Capt. Vei-Huell. of Arnheim 

 (Gerhard, Mon., p. 19, pi. xxxv., fig. 2; Schultz, Woch. fiir Ent., ii., p. 356). 



8. — Preponderantly $ . All the wings, especially the right, irregularly mixed 

 with the brown colour of the ? . The right forewing larger (15mm.) than the left 

 (14mm.). Found near Berlin. In coll. Wiskott, Breslau (Wiskott, Lep. Zwilter, 

 p. 12 ; Schultz, "Woch. fiir Ent.," ii., p. 365). 



e. — Apparently ? , with streaks of blue on all the wings. Slemschoran, 

 Bohemia. Staudinger coll. (Bang-Haas, in lift., teste Dadd ; Schultz, Woch.Jur 

 Ent., ii., p. 365). 



j.— Gynandromorphous specimen, near Whitley, August, 1877. Maddison 



* In the description of this plate, Humphreys and Westwood note that, at 

 the time they were writing (1840), there were " three other hermaphrodite 

 specimens " of P. alexia in the British Museum coll. besides the one being figured, 

 i.e., four altogether. At the present time (January, 1910) only three can be found. 

 Two others, one from the " Zeller," the other from the " Sam Stevens' " 

 collections, are comparatively modern importations. 



