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variety from a hot locality, which, instead of black, is 

 reddish yellow. 



59. Pharte. Lower Alps, ex., at the foot of the Upper Gur- 



nigel. I have not met with it above the limits of the 

 woods. 



60. Melampus. Very common on all Alps ; and usually the 



first of their true inhabitants which announces the 

 Alpine districts : it is not, however, found on the Jura. 

 The female has usually four spots on the fore wings, 

 the male only two. 



61. Cassiope. On the High Alps; very similar to the last in 



size and figure, but not so widely distributed on the 

 Alps ; the under side of the hind wings is always a 

 uniform brown without spots. 



62. Mnestr<z. Near the glacier of the Aar on the Grimsel, 



on the Meyenwand, &c. (The Meyenwand is the 

 south-eastern declivity of the Grimsel, leading from 

 the heights above the Hospice towards the glacier of 

 the Rhone.) It prefers, however, the Alps of the 

 Chamouni. It has much resemblance to the fore- 

 going, but is always larger : the ferruginous portion of 

 the fore wings broader and more connected ; the male 

 usually without spots or ocelli. 



63. Pyrrhrt. On Lower Alps, as the Gurnigel ; and on higher 



ones, as the Wengen Alp ; also at Kundersteg : com- 

 mon in July, and offering many varieties. The male 

 has sometimes the upper side of the fore wings en- 

 tirely black, without spots or ocelli (Caecilk Hiibn.), 

 or with two long orange-coloured spots, with black 

 points ; or with a band of spots on the fore and hind 

 wings : the female is of a grayer colour, the upper side 

 with very faint orange-coloured spots, or none; the 

 under side with lemon yellow points, spots, or con- 

 nected band, or entirely without any thing of the kind. 

 In 1809, I found a singular variety on the Wengen 

 Alp, the ground of the wings being almost Isabella 

 yellow. 

 64«. Bubastis Meis. (with a long description, &c, which Och- 

 senheimer cuts short in six words, by saying he knows 

 nothing about it : " Bubastis kenne ich nicht in der 

 Natur;" and we can scarcely, perhaps, do better 

 than follow his example, the species not being men- 

 tioned by Godart and Duponchel, in their Hist. Nat 

 des Ldpidopteres ; or by Boisduval, in either his Index 

 Methodicus or his Icones Historiques.) 



