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the submedian spots of the hindwings are also thrown back, but less 

 markedly. In the British Museum coll., a large $ from Sicily, 

 labelled " Leech coll.," is strikingly of this form. 



j8. ab. glomerata, Tutt, "Nat. Hist. Brit. Butts.," iv., p. 16 (1910); Hodgs., 

 " Ent. Bee.,'' xxii., p. 115 (1910). Icarus ab. Harrison, " Ent. Bee.," xviii., 

 p. 247 (1906); Hemming, " Proc. Sth. Lond. Ent. Soc," 1909-10, p. 119(1910).— 

 The submedian series of spots, together with the basal spots closing on, and forming 

 a sort of circle round, the discoidal lunule. 



Harrison notes (Ent. Bee, xviii., p. 247) a ? , with the two basal 

 ocelli and the remains of the subterminal row of ocelli moved up to 

 the discal area, forming a black T symmetrically on the underside of 

 the forewings; the hindwings only possess a confused central mark. 

 Hemming exhibited (Proc. St/i. Lond. Ent. Soc, 1909, p. 119) a ? with 

 the submedian spots on the underside of the forewings closely clustered 

 round the discoidal, except that the lowest submedian spot was 

 confluent with the lower basal spot (as in melanotoxa); the spots on 

 the underside of the hindwings partially obsolete, but the three 

 remaining spots also clustered round the discoidals ( = ab. glomerata- 

 melanotoxa, n. ab.). 



y. ab. parvipuncta, Courv., " Mitt. Sehw. Ent. Gesell.," xi., p. 24 (1903); 

 Gillm., "Ent. Zeits. Gub.," xviii., p. 2 (1904); "Int. Ent. Zeits. Gub.," ii., p. 134 

 (1908); iv., p. 2 (1910); Bebel, "Beige's Schmett.," 9th ed., p. 70 (1910). Icarus 

 ab., Adkin, "Proc. Sth. Lond. Ent. Soc," 1894, p. 46 (1895). Persica, Seitz, 

 " Gross-Schmett.," p. 312 (1909). — The basal, submedian and discoidal spots all 

 very small (Courvoisier). 



Courvoisier only notes this aberrational form as occurring in the 

 $ . In the British Museum coll. is a^ labelled " Mutzell coll.," also 

 three examples of var. napaea of this form, with only traces of the 

 basal spots on the hindwing, also two from Afghanistan, one from 

 "Sarafschan (Grum-Grshimailo)," two labelled " Dschungaria," some 

 of these being also icarinus. Adkin records (Proc. Sth. Lond. Ent. 

 Soc, 1894, p. 46) a $ , captured at Reigate, June 9th, 1894, with the 

 black spots of the underside much reduced in size, those usually found 

 at the base of the forewings absent ( = ab. parvipuncta-icarinus, n. ab.). 

 The Roscrea example of livida (noted antea, p. 136) is also of the parvi- 

 puncta form. 



8. ab. albo-ocellata, Gillm., " Soc. Ent.," xviii., p. 186 (1904); Bebel, " Berge's 

 Schmett.," 9th ed., p. 70(1909). Icarus ab., Adkin, "Proc. Sth. Lond. Ent. 

 Soc," 1888-9, p. 165, pi. i., fig. 2 (1890). Albomaculata, Gillm., "Ent. Zeits. 

 Gub.," xviii., no. 1, p. 2 (1904). — This form is marked by the complete disap- 

 pearance of the black centres in everyone of the ocellated spots on the underside of 

 the wings; on the other hand, the black marginal spots and the black chevrons 

 edging the orange marginal lunules are retained, though fainter than in typical 

 specimens. One J taken at Stiirzelberg (Dusseldorf), August 30th, 1903, in the 

 Wiskott coll. Another in that of von Metzen at Dusseldorf (Gillmer). 



In the British Museum coll. is a $ from the Engadine wuth minute 

 white spots on the hindwings: the first basal being the only one 

 pupilled, in the forewing the fourth and fifth of the submedian row 

 and the discoidal are also pupilled, the others being barely represented 

 ( = ab. subalboocellata ,n. ab.). Adkin figured (Proc Sth. Lond. Ent. Soc, 

 1888-9, pi. i., fig. 2) a $ , the underside of which shows the ordinary 

 ocelli without black kernels, but of the grey ground colour with 

 surrounding w T hite rings ( = ab. albocirciuncincta)', the specimen was 

 captured by Austin, in 1888, at Folkestone. This example differs 

 apparently from Gillmer's in that in the latter, the centres also are 



