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wing, the connecting nervuleat the end of the cell, between nervures 4 

 and 6, nearly straight, except for a small sharp angle where nervure 5 

 joins it. Nervures 6 and 8 springing from the costal angle of the 

 discoidal cell, but not touching at this point. Cell one-third as broad 

 as the length. In inantn the ditcoidal cell is just half the length of the 

 wing, the connecting nervule between nervures 4 and 6 curved ; convex 

 towards the base of the wing, the junction of nervure 5 causing no 

 angle. Nervures 6 and 8 joined at their base, springing from the same 

 spot in the costal angle of the discoidal cell. Cell a little more than 

 one-third as broad as the length. 



Hindwing: Discoidal cell much less sharply angled than in iiianto. 

 Nervures 6 and 7 rising close together, and ending further apart (at 

 the margin of the wing) than in mauto. Nervure 5 consequently rises 

 much further from 6 in the Pyrenean race. Discoidal cell slightly 

 narrower than half its length, while in inanto it is a little broader than 

 half its length. 



The various characteristics of size, markings, tone of ground colour, 

 are all exceedingly constant, and if taken with the structural ones, viz., 

 the neuration and Dr. Chapman's verdict on the genitalia, can leave no 

 possible doubt that this Pyrenean Eiehia is a distinct species. As 

 i'nmtona, Seitz (not Eiwes), would have to be taken as the name of a 

 dark Pyrenean form of iiianto, if such were found to exist, the Pyre- 

 nean species is still unnamed, and I propose the name i/ararniensis, 

 n. sp., for it. 



We now come to the var. trajanuH, Hormuzaki. The following is 

 a slightly abbreviated translation of the original description. 



" Var. $ trajanuH, Hormuz. — The characteristic marking which 

 separates our variety from the type [iiianto) lies in the ground colour 

 of the underside. 



" Forewings a light red-brown, dusted with yellow-gre}^ towards the 

 apex and costa .... 



" Hindwings light greenish-grey, quite different from the ground 

 colour of the forewings, resembling the colouring of the underside 

 hindwing of E. arete. This colour is thickly spread over almost the 

 whole surface of the wings, and there is a pronounced covering of 

 greenish-gray hairs near the base .... All the spots are dis- 

 tinctly bordered, in both specimens, not with reddish-yellow, as in the 

 type, but with pale whitish-yellow." 



This description (which was made from two ? s taken in Bukovina, 

 on chalk) shows that none of Mr. Lowe's specimens, or mine, are in 

 any way connected with the var. trajanus, which must be a magnificent 

 variety, and is probably a purely Eastern one. The reference to the 

 colour which surrounds the spots on the underside of the hindwings, 

 at once excludes Mr. Lowe's specimens, as the ground colour does 

 mine, and probably his also ; for he makes no mention of this being 

 unusual. One cannot, therefore, do better than to refer Mr. Lowe's 

 specimens to the name he suggested for them in the beginning, var. 

 iiKlif/ciis, which he described as " a 2 form, underside entirely without 

 markings, upperside as in the type." My four Js which (as already 

 noted) have the median band on the underside of the hindwings onlj' 

 represented by a few small isolated spots, the basal ones scarcely 

 visible, being suffused by the ground colour, the forewings underside 

 typical, and all markings of the upperside similar to the type, but 



