212 Swiss Diurnal Lepidoptera. 



65. GETm^. Common here and there on the Low Alps ; I have 



not found it above the limits of the woods. 



66. Ceto. One of the rarer and most local species of this 



family; I have found it in a meadow between the 

 Baths of Louesch and Inden, in June, in tolerable 

 plenty ; but nowhere beyond the limits of the meadow, 

 except on one occasion, when I took it on the Sim- 

 plon. (Godart gives its locality, " the mountains of 

 Dauphine ;" Boisduval, simply, " Helvetia.") 



67. Medusa. Not rare in June on the higher parts of the 



Jura, as the Weissenstein above Soleure. (A small 

 variety is described, which Ochsenheimer says he had 

 received from Steyermark, and that it is evidently a 

 distinct species : he names it Hippomedusa ; but, as I 

 do not find that name in either Godart or Boisduval, 

 I suppose it is dropped.) 



68. Stygn^. On most Alps, Grimsel, Gemmi, Wengen Alp, 



Jura, &c. 



69. Alecto. In very few parts of the Highest Alps above the 



Daube, on the Gemmi, one of the rarest of the fa- 

 mily. (Meisner says the Swiss specimens never have 

 ocelli; and he supposes Hubner's, t. 101. f. 515, 516., 

 to be something else. Ochsenheimer says he has spe- 

 cimens with and without ocelli; and Boisduval says 

 that on a great number, from different localities, he 

 never saw a male with the least trace of them. I be- 

 lieve there is no question as to the female, although 

 she has a band of ferruginous spots. Boisduval 

 thinks that Godart's figures, vol. ii. pi. 14. f. 5. & 6., 

 which have ocelli, are probably his Lefebvri. Icones, 

 vol. i. p. 161.) 

 (Nerine Tr. On the Alps of the Grisons; very rare.) 



70. Medea. Very common in woods and meadows, on the 



plains, or in Alpine valleys ; varies much in size and 

 number of ocelli, as also in the band on the under 

 side of the hind wings of the female, which is some- 

 times yellow, sometimes white. 



71. Ligea. In woods and their contiguous meadows; com- 



mon everywhere; in subalpine woods, of superior size 

 and beauty. 



72. Euryal?. Common as far as the limits of the deciduous 



woods on the Lower Alps ; the ocelli have mostly 

 white pupils, particularly in the females; the males 

 have often black ocelli without white pupils ; some- 

 times an individual is found, having part of them with 

 pupils, and part without. 



