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van turcica — darker, 

 var. ijalena — no eyes. 

 Sub-species (a) lachesis — pale. France and Spain. 

 ,, ,, (b) herta — (central pale band). Balkans. 

 (2) Arge (Sulzer, 1776j. C. and S. Italy, 

 var. c(eca — no eyes, etc. 

 Sub-species {c) phenisa. Sicily. 

 var. plesaiira — no eyes. 

 „ „ {(1) psyche — sylliiis. Spain, etc. 



var. ixora — no eyes. 

 ,, ,, (e) incs = thetis. Pyrenees. 



(8) Japygia (Cyril, 1787). 



var. cleanthe. France, etc. (pale). 

 Sub-species (/■) atropna. Sicily (dark). 

 ,, „ (fi) smraroviiis. Eussia, Hungary, etc. (pale). 



„ ,, (A) larissa, Greece (dark). 



P.S. — The sub-species lucasi (Algiers) may be added to the gala- 

 THEA Group, and titea (Syria) to the arge Group. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XIL 



The genus Melanargia. 



I. Upper-side of M. galathea var. approaching 31. lachesis. N. Kent, July, 

 1875. 



II. Upper- and under-side of M. galathea var. procida, from Messina, Sicily, 

 May, 1910. 



III. Upper- and under-side of M. japygia var. atropos, the Sicilian form. 

 May, 1910. 

 All captured by J.P.B. 



