. The Entomologist's record and journal of variation . f spots should be atavic, and itseems advisable to draw attention to the suggestion. (Tlaiicopsi/chemelanops have, very frequently, this outer marginal series in a more orless rudimentary state, but 1 have never seen a specimen of 6r. cyllarusshowing this tendency, indeed, this species appears to me to be veryspecialised.—P. A. H. Muschamp, , Staefa. June 28«/(, 1909.[This form is described at length in A ]Sat. Hist. Brit. Butts., x., p. 268,together with various stages of development, until, in var. persica, thefull Plebeiid spottin
. The Entomologist's record and journal of variation . f spots should be atavic, and itseems advisable to draw attention to the suggestion. (Tlaiicopsi/chemelanops have, very frequently, this outer marginal series in a more orless rudimentary state, but 1 have never seen a specimen of 6r. cyllarusshowing this tendency, indeed, this species appears to me to be veryspecialised.—P. A. H. Muschamp, , Staefa. June 28«/(, 1909.[This form is described at length in A ]Sat. Hist. Brit. Butts., x., p. 268,together with various stages of development, until, in var. persica, thefull Plebeiid spotting is reached. No doubt the oriental form is theolder, and the various European and Asiatic races without the marginalseries of eyes and lunules, developments therefrom. Mr. Muschamp(and others) will, no doubt, find in our account of the undersidespotting of this species {np. eit. pp. 259-263) the necessary facts tobear out the suggestion of atavism, in the persistence of the palemarginal spots occurring now aberratioually in ab. initia.—Ed.] . x. b; LEPIDOPTERA OF THE GRISONS ZERNETZ AND THE OFEN PASS. 197 Aberration of Abraxas grossulariata. By C. W. aberration of Abraxas (jrossulariata figured below was capturedduring the third week in July, in a garden at Charlton, by , when dusking. The antennae are broken off, and the legs badlyset. No yellow appears on the wings, and the pattern of the forewings isnot symmetrical. As Avill be seen by the figure, the forewings are much
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