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THE ENTOMOLOGIST S KECOKD. 



than the specimen, the wings of which are longer and narrower, 

 inclining more to the shape of 1'. eros. 



With this specimen are placed two other 3 s from the Moore coll., 

 one labelled " Masuri," the other " Ladak, Leh, 6, ix. 73." These are 

 obviously of the same form though a little smaller, and slightly 

 darker on the underside. With them are associated three ? s from 

 the Moore coll., one of which, labelled "Simla, Lang," has a trace of 

 blue, the second, labelled " Kunawur, Lang," has a few bright blue 

 scales on the forewings, and the third, labelled " Murree, 10, viii. 85," 

 has more blue on the forewings, reaching as high up on the wing as 

 the discoidal spot, and spreading out on each side below it, but not 

 reaching either the base or the orange marginal spots. The nervures, 

 which are of the ground colour, break this up into small patches. 

 The orange spots in all come two-thirds of the way up the hindwing- 

 and half way up the forewing, on the former dark spots are enclosed 

 between the orange and the edge of the wing. All come from the 

 Moore coll., and the last is evidently one of those described by Butler, 

 {Fmc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 368j, which shows that Moore regarded 

 Butler's view of ariana as corresponding with his own. None of these 

 ? s correspond at all with the original description. All six specimens 

 belong to the eras form, and had it not been for the original figure and 

 most of the specimens in Dr. Chapman's possession, I should 

 unhesitatingly have regarded it as belonging to the eras group. The 

 figure, however, may well have been taken from one of Chapman's 

 specimens and is of the icarus form, and the original description also 

 fits in much more closely with these specimens than with Moore's 

 " type," and corresponds well with most of the Goorais Valley speci- 

 mens from the Leech coll. m the British Museum. Of these there are 

 seven <? s and eight $ s of the icarns form ; the latter, however, do 

 not at all correspond with the original description of the 5 , and the 

 only specimen which does so is one from Chitral from the Leslie and 

 Evans coll. 



Leech {Butts. ('Iiina, etc., ii., p. 307) remarks: " With regard to 

 ariana, Moore, I think there is little doubt that it is the Himalayan 

 representative of L. icarus.'" This is borne out by the Goorais Valley 

 examples, but there is another series of Leech's specimens (seven S" , 

 three $ ) also labelled " ariana, Moore," which on the upperside 

 appear to be eros, and one of which is on this side indistinguishable 

 from eros of the Simplon' Pass, but which on the underside tend 

 strongly on the hindwing in the direction of the absence of black 

 centres to the white spots, which is, on both wings, characteristic of 

 stuliczkana, Felder. It may in fact be said that these so-called ariana 

 and stoliczkana bear in appearance the same relation to eros tbat the 

 vars. saliiiacis and artaxer.res do to Aricia luedon (astrarrhe) ; and it is 

 undoubtedly from specimens such as these that Staudinger's applica- 

 tion of the name ariana to a form of stolictkana has arisen. It would 

 seem from this at least possible that we have here to deal with yet a 

 third species under this name. The specimens from the Elwes coll. 

 associated with these latter undoubtedly belong to the same form, to 

 whatever species it may be referred. 



[To be continued.) 



