48 THE entomologist's record. 



24. PAP. MORIO 



Lungh. lin. d^, Largh. lin. 20|. 



Pap. N.P. alis integerrimis. Totus niger. Antennis corporis 



longitudinem fequantibus. 



Ne' contorni d'Exilles. In Fine di Luglio. 

 Of Kirby's mono, Krebia alectn, Hb., is also made a synonym, but 

 I have little doubt from the locality mentioned — Exilles — that this 

 " totKs nit/er " butterfly is not E. alecto var. pltito, Esp., which only 

 occurs at very high altitudes (7,000ft. to about 10,000ft., Wheeler), 

 but petrotiitx = ninnto = caecilia = (iavarnie)mfi, and, as the name morio 

 was pre-occupied in 1791 by [Hijponyjiina) morin {Ij.S.N., ed. xii., 

 1766-68), I suggest that petrosus belongs to the "all-black" Krebia 

 haunting the Piedmontese side of the Mont Cenis (6,050ft.) at Exilles 

 (under 3,000ft.), which place is at little more than the altitude of the hills 

 above Susa (1,600ft.), where I collected at the end of June, 1899 {Knt. 

 Record, vol. xi., p. 290) and found on the higher ground only, the 

 Erebias associated with the lower Alps — E. medusa, E, ceto, and K. 

 styi/ne ; though no doubt FL manto, and others of its range, would 

 follow further up the Dora-Riparia valley, if not above Susa, in their 

 season. 



Apparently Kirby drew upon Duponchel for the material which 

 led him to conclude that Giorna's morio, and Hiibner's caecilia were 

 synonymous. In the Supplement a V Hist. Nat. des IJpids. d' Europe, 

 1832, vol. i, pp. 298-99, under " Satyre Cecile," the synonymy is 

 worked out as follows : 



"SATYRUS CECILIA. 

 Papilio Cfecilia, Hb. 

 Pap. Morio, Giorna. 

 Pap. Petrosus, Deprunn. 

 Satyrus Pyrrha, var. Cagcilia, Boisdv. 



Evergure 18 lignes." 



and my contention that morio and petrosus are identical with 

 l/ararniensis, Warren, and that Kirby wrongly associated them both 

 with alecto-pluto is further supported by Duponchel's own account. 



" This Satyr, which at first sight might be confused with alecto, is 

 but a variety of ptjrrlia in which all the tawny markings have dis- 

 appeared. The four wings are rounded, and ' shot ' (chatoyant) 

 brown-black without any markings at all. Under side, same colour 

 less deep, and also without the least spot " (as in the male). . . . 

 " This variety is very common, and even constant in the Pyrenees, 

 The variety caecilia now figured was taken by M. Alexandre Lefebvre, 

 on the Pic de Biscos [recte Viscos)*, in the valley of St. Savin, 

 Department of Hautes-Pyrenees." Godart (1822) may only be 

 copying de Prunner when he says that this butterfly is common " in 

 many of our Alpine mountams " in May and June. But he also 

 describes Hiibner's caecilia as absolutely without bands. 



Duponchel's synonymy is derived from Ochsenheimer's " Die 

 Schmet. Saclisens," Dresden & Leipzig, 1805 (vol. i., p. 256), where 



* Cauterets region, and headquarters of the butterfly hereaboilta, 



