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elongated, the spots usually becoming somewhat wedge-shaped, the 

 pointed ends directed towards the base. This is the aberration 

 described by Oberthur as " supra radiata," of which he gives an 

 excellent figure (74), a ? taken at Vernet-les-Bains in July, 

 1894. He describes it as having the normally square black spots, 

 comprising the submarginal row on the forewings, replaced by a 

 series, each of which is elongated in the form of a " goutte," and 

 adds that "the Guenee collection contained a $ from Chateaudun, 

 presenting a slightly weakened example of this form of the species, but 

 on the underside instead of the upper, whilst from the Howard-Vaughan 

 collection came an analogous $ from Folkestone, but more characteristic." 

 Sabine notes (Ent., xxxii., p. 284) the capture, in September, 

 1899, in the Dartford district, of some four or five examples, 

 with elongated, wedge-shaped spots, approaching streaks. Mitchell 

 records the capture, at Barnes, of a specimen with the spots on the 

 forewings very large and elongated. Adkin notes (Ent., xxvi., p. 365) 

 the capture, at Eastbourne, of examples in which the black spots com- 

 prising the submarginal row on the forewings show a tendency to 

 elongation ; and Barrett (Ent. Mo. Mag., xxv., p. 83) mentions one 

 taken at King's Lynn, which was of normal colour, but had the black 

 spots doubly wedge-shaped. We have a specimen of the intermedia- 

 caudata form, taken August 1st, 1887, at Kingsdown, in which the 

 spots have undergone some extension in the direction of this aberration. 



k. ab. extensa-conjuncta, n. ab. Fasciata, Scudd., "Butts. New Engl.," ii., 

 pp. 1000-1001, in part (1889). Phlaeas var., South, "Ent.," xxxvi., p. 289 

 (1903). — With the black spots of the transverse submarginal row on the forewings, 

 enlarged as in ab. extensa, but, in addition, the 2nd and 3rd united to the discoidal 

 spot. 



This is a very rare form. Of this aberration we give two repre- 

 sentations, both apparently $ s (pi. xiii., figs. 7-8). An example 

 of this form was captured on Wan stead Flats by J. A. Cooper, and 

 is figured Ent., xxix., p. 191, the spots in the transverse submarginal 

 band on the upperside of the forewings being developed into lineolse, 

 pointing towards the base of the wing ; it is noted, however, that the 

 elongation of the spots is confined to the uppersurface, the undersurface 

 being completely normal ; [an analogous underside example is figured, 

 Ent., xxvi., p. 305, fig. 1, captured by Sabine, at Erith, in 1893.] 

 South records (Ent., xxxvi., p. 289) the rearing of a ? , by Sabine, 

 in July, 1903, in which spots 1, 2, 3 and 5 of the antemarginal 

 series are extended inwards, forming conspicuous black bars ; 2 

 and 3, in addition, being united with the outer discal spot. Adkin notes 

 (Ent., xxvi., p. 365) the capture, at Eastbourne, of a form ap- 

 proaching this aberration, in which the 3rd spot of the submarginal 

 series is connected with the discoidal spot by a black streak. Scudder, 

 under the term fasciata, includes (Butts. IS'ew Engl., ii., pp. 1001-2) 

 several aberrations of the fasciated type. Among others, he describes 

 the one (extensa-conjuncta) under consideration, from " two examples 

 taken August 1st, at Newton, Mass., within a few minutes of each 

 other, which are almost exactly alike, the variation affecting only the 

 row of spots in the middle of the outer half of the wing, each of which, 

 although perfectly distinct from the others, is expanded a very little 

 exteriorly and very much interiorly, the spots beyond the cell joining 

 that which borders the outer limits of the same, those in the median 



