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in April and May, approximate to, but do not fully reach obliterata, 

 the spots being small without being really absent. There appears to be 

 a tendency to very small spots in the transverse submarginal row, in many 

 of the examples taken in the Riviera in spring. Adkin notes the capture, 

 on September 4th, 1893, of examples at Eastbourne, with the sub- 

 marginal row of black spots on the primaries reduced to minute dots. 



77. ab. magnipiineta, n. ab. Phlaeas var. j3, Stphs., " Illus. Haust.," i., p. 80 

 (1828). — The black spots in the submarginal transverse row crossing the forewings 

 much larger than usual, but not actually united. 



This is the var. p of Stephens, who diagnoses it as having "the 

 anterior wings above of a deep dusky-copper, with very large, nearly 

 confluent, spots; the posterior wings with a very narrow waved band." 

 Adkin notes a specimen from Eastbourne, with large spots, the costa 

 and nervures thickly dusted with black scales. Mathew observes that 

 Teneriffe specimens have much larger black spots than British 

 examples. We have a 5 with a particularly large, outer, discal spot, 

 taken at Stresa, on August 20th, 1905, etc. 



6. ab. juncta, n.ab. — The spots, forming the transverse submarginal row that 

 crosses the forewing, large, but quadrate, united to each other directly, or by short 

 dark streaks, along the nervures, so as to form an united zigzag band across the 

 fore wings. 



Raynor notes (in litt.) : " The aberration in which the submarginal 

 series of black spots on the forewings coalesce more or less completely, 

 I have from Hunstanton, August, 1899 ; also a specimen from Erith, 

 taken by Sabine, and one at Colchester, by Harwood, August, 1906." 

 This is really a well-marked and frequent aberration, wonderfully well 

 shown in some of the specimens experimented on by Chapman, and to 

 which reference has already been made (antea, pp. 336 340). We have 

 British examples taken at Deal, August, 1887, Canterbury , August, 1890, 

 Cuxton, September 10th, 1891, Kingsdown, August 1st, 1897, etc. We also 

 possess such examples from Locarno, taken May and June, 1902, 

 some having the characters of this aberration combined with those of 

 remota, the specimens having the spots joined zigzag fashion, yet pushed 

 out so as almost to touch the outer marginal band, to which they are 

 united by black nervures. This is remarkable, as the spring specimens 

 in the Riviera have both small and distant spots. A very good $ of 

 this form was found on the Brevent, in mid-August, 1902. The 

 aberration was also common in certain specimens taken in mid- 

 August, 1899, at Fontainebleau ; most of these latter were also tailed, 

 so that they form a combination of juncta-caudata ; another of this 

 combined form was taken at Le Batiaz, near Martigny, on August 25th, 

 1905. The character of this aberration is frequently exhibited by 

 examples of the suffusa and eleus forms, e.g., near Stalden, August 5th, 

 1904, a suffused $ of the juncta form was captured, whilst, in Spain, 

 it is a striking feature in many dark specimens captured at Cuenca, 

 Moncayo, Bejar, Albarracin, etc. 



L ab. hochi, Strand, "Nyt. Mag. f. Natur.," xl., pp. 1C2-3 (1902). Phlaeas 

 ab., Obth., "Etudes," etc., p. 13, pi. v., fig. 74 (1896).— The spots, which form 

 the transverse row beyond the middle of the forewings very large, elongated on the 

 inner side in a wedge-like manner and touching each other. Two examples, taken 

 on the dry, sun-baked, stone-covered slopes in the Suldal (Strand). 



The transverse row of black spots crossing the forewings, between 

 the discoidal cell and marginal band, on the upperside, considerably 



