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exceeds in brilliancy every $ bellary m ever seen or captured by my¬ 
self. Dulness, and lack of extremes in colour was characteristic of 
the second brood also in this year’s J , but in this year characterised 
by want of brilliance in the $ one exceptionally brilliant specimen 
was taken. Period of flight first brood bellary us, 1907, over eight 
weeks. 
ii. In second brood of bell art/us, whereas only during a few early days 
of the brood some few numbers of blue scaled $ s were seen, when 2 s 
were very much, scarcer than later, during the great part, and all latter 
part of this brood (in which one has learnt to look for blue $ s, 
especially at the last week or two), $ s with blue were practically 
absent. Period of flight second brood bellaryns, 1907, seven weeks. 
The proposition then runs as follows (to take for instance Corydon 
as example) that: 
Seasons which are “ supenrstiral" will be associated with : 
In the ? . Emphasis of— 
1. Brown tint,wings, fringes*, especially 
as distinct from black. 
2. Orange border spots. 
Deficiency of— 
1. Blue scaling. 
2. White detail of border spots. 
In the <? . Emphasis of— 
1. Blueness and brilliance, white details- 
of borders, whiter tint). 
Deficiency of— 
Black. 
This table is deduced from theoretical consideration of the ordinary 
sexual dimorphism. That all changes are seldom seen (except in 
extreme years) in same individual, and that some changes predominate 
over others in different superfestival seasons is what one might expect 
and what one thinks one finds. 
< 'orydon is taken as an example, being best known to one’s self 
because the attractiveness of its ab.. Synyrapha to a beginner was the 
origin of one’s start, at assiduous selective collecting in 1887. For 
wholesale collection of Synyrapha 1887 was a most unfortunate 
year to start. Over two localities constant collecting was carried on 
through the whole season. In 1887 the maximum amount of blue 
scaling in 2 s, was the common minimal basal dusting of a few blue 
scales, and the percentage of this variation was minimal. The $ s of 
this year exactly corresponded to the theoretical table given, and in an 
extreme degree, were brown, rich brown, blackish brown, with orange 
crescents fair to very good, and many with cilia more or less wholly 
brown, sometimes deep brown. 
On the other hand in the 3 s of 1887 the chief points were an 
abundance of unusually brilliant $ s and mostly the border was 
narrowed greatly, blue or white or both largely replacing the black, 
also corresponding to theoretical table. 1887 was a markedly 
superfestival summer. 
While in the following year a markedly subfestival summer (with a 
September fully inferior to 1907’s — Corydon being seen well into’ 
October in 1888) the contrast was extraordinary, the 3 , dull often 
with increased black margins, often with upperside orange crescents to 
secondaries. While the 2 s > to number of about half of those that 
could be captured or observed, shewed definitely varied blue scaling 
* Signifies uppersides and undersides. 
f Signifies undersides only (otherwise uppersides only referred to). 
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