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darker than the Ticino specimens. While the Ticino examples have a 

 nearly unbroken red band of spots in the cells 2-6, with large black 

 pupils, those of Pontresina have only three very small red-brown spots 

 in cells 4-6, separated and reduced by the dark veins which traverse 

 them, and the black pupils are much diminished in size, especially in 

 the male, the uppermost is always the smallest and generally very in- 

 distinct. In the male, the red spots in cells 2 and 3 are very slightly 

 marked, and, in one case, only the lower one is very minutely pupilled, 

 but, in the female, both these spots are larger and both pupilled. In 

 the case of one female a small red-brown point is visible also in cell 

 lb. Hindiriiii/s: With four considerably smaller separated black spots 

 (smaller than type, or smaller than the primaries ?) ringed red, slightly 

 in the male, more decidedly in the female. The unpupilled costal spot 

 is only faintly visible in both male and female. In the male the spots 

 themselves are very faint. The nndi'r.'n'th' : In the male the yellow- 

 brown band of the primaries is considerably narrower, on which the 

 five spots are very small, especially the first and the last but one. The 

 forewings of the female are entirely brown with a grey margin. The 

 marginal band may be either yellowish-brown and conspicuous, or 

 little distinguishable from the ground-colour, it is a little wider, and 

 the four black pupils are more strongly marked than in the male. The 

 hindwings are blackish-brown in the male, grey-brown in the female, 

 with distinct light veins. In the males, the veins are less pronounced. 

 The band of the hindwings, yellow or yellowish-white, is narrower, or 

 not so strongly indented on the inner edge as in the type, and the six 

 black pupils are much smaller, especially in the male." 



Herr Bartel also thinks that, on an average, the species emerges a 

 little latter in the Engadine than in Canton Ticino, He also quotes 

 Wheeler's list of captures and localities with his remarks on the 

 direction of variation in this species. 



Herr Bartel's claim for var. tldciuei to rank as a local form and new 

 variety, seems to be based chiefly on the greatly reduced size of the red 

 patches, and on the smaller black spots of his Engadine specimens. 

 But is it not probable that a wider acquaintance with this insect, both 

 in its Ticino haunts, and possibly elsewhere, will shew this is hasty 

 conclusion '? Indeed, Mr. Elwes appears to describe the Campolungo 

 specimens as more in agreement with the so-called var. t/iii'inri, than 

 with a type as indicated by Herr Bartel. He says {Tra)is. Knt. Soc. of 

 LoiuL, 1898, p. 186) : " /'>'. flavofanciata is distinguished from K. 

 nu'lampiiK, and from all other species, by a well-defined yellowish band 

 on the underside of the hindwing, in which five dark spots appear. 

 On the forewing below there are four similar spots, placed in a 

 narrower darker band which, towards the hindwing, becoiiics incnicil in 

 till (iroinitl-coloiir of t/ii' irhu/. On the uppcrside the bawls are iworb/, 

 or ijuitr, obsolete, well marked onb/ tonards the apex of the forewing. 

 The sfiots above are, in smne specimens, inure or less obsolete, especially 

 on the hindwing." The italics are mine. Wheeler's observation "this 

 sp., the smallest Krchia,'' does not harmonise with my limited experi- 

 ence, for of my three males the measurements are 32mni,, 8-lnnn. and 

 35mm. respectively. 



