NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIV. 1917. 117 



We left Algeria always too early in the summer to be able to catch this 

 insect in any numbers. The British Museum has 9 specimens : 6 Meade-Waldo ; 

 1 Tetuan, Morocco, June 1901, J. B. Fletcher ; 2 Algiers, Leech coll. Mr. 

 Meade-Waldo in his article gives Tangier, September 1901 ; Rabat, May 1901 ; 

 and Tsauritz Ent.sagauz, July 1901. Miss Fountaine records it from Tlemcen, 

 July 1904. 



65. Coenonympha areanioides (Pierret). 



Satyrus areanioides Pierret, Ann. Soc. Bntoin. France, vol. vi. p. 306 (1837) (Oran). 



This insect occurs in two seasonal forms, gen. vern. areanioides Pierret, 

 and gen. aest. holli Oberth. {Etud. Lipid. Comp. Fasc. IV'. p. 20 (1910) (Maison 

 Carree). The summer form holli Ls distinguished by the fulvous or rufous bemg 

 reduced, the general colour being darker and the insect much smaller. 



gen. vern. areanioides. 



15 Masser Muies, May 1914, Faroult. 



5 Oran, April 1913, "w. R. and E. H. 



4 Blida les Glacieres, June 1908, W. R. and K. J. 

 20 Hammam R'ihra, May 1908-1913, W. R., E. H., and K. J. 



2 Bou Saada, May 1912, Faroult. 



gen. aest. holli. 



12 Environs d'Alger, July 1909-1910, Captaiji Holl and Dr. Nissen. 

 2 Leila Ki-edidja, July 1907, Dr. Nissen. 

 42 Ain Draham, July— August 1909-1912, Faroult. 



Dr. Seitz, believing the type of areanioides to have been a specimen of the 

 summer generation, renamed the spring generation major, but that not being 

 the case this name cannot stand. 



The British Museum has 21 specimens of both seasonal forms : 7 Algiers, 

 Leech coll. ; 1 Algiers, October 1874, Hering ; 1 Phillipeville, April— May 1882- 

 1884, H. J. Elwes and J. Merkl ex Elwes coll. ; 3 ? ? ex Elwes coll. ; 1 Collo, 

 Constantine Frey coll. ; 1 Gibraltar, 1 Tangier, 3 Benzus Bay, Commander 

 Walker ex Salvin Godman coll. ; 3 Meade-Waldo. Mr. Meade-Waldo says in 

 his article that he only saw this insect in the north, and quotes Hawara, April 

 1901, and El Mediar, May 1901. The Tring series of both generations consists 

 of 103 specimens. 



Coenonympha spec. ? 



This 9 is a most curious insect, and I should at once describe it as new 

 only above it is exactly like a very pale areanioides. Below it differs very much : 

 the ground colour of forewing Ls orange not rufous, the buffy yellow line before 

 ocellus has become a broad band reaching to vein 2, and the costal region, apex, 

 and termen to vein 2 are greenish bufF ; there is also no metallic subterminal 

 line on either wing, only an indistinct silvery line of dots ; the ground colour 

 of the hindwings Ls bright golden olive tinged with brown not maroon washed 

 with dark olive ; the white band is washed with buff and very broad ; and the 

 ocelli are so minute as to be almost absent. 



1 ? Foret del Akfadou, June 1906, Dr. Nissen. 



