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underside of the hind-wings, inseparable from C. sati/riau. There is 

 every possible intermediate grade between the most typical ip/n'.s and 

 (J. satijrion, the latter of which, in its most typical form, occurs here. 

 It should be added, in order that the matter may receive that judicial 

 consideration that it deserves, that I had an opinion that those 

 specimens that were most like typical fiati/n'on were rather more jxisse 

 than the mass of the typical specimens of ipMs, but it may be that 

 their worn condition, which certainly made them appear darker, was 

 the cause of this. To this species (or variety), then, I refer a few of 

 the smaller and darker specimens of both sexes, the males of which are of 

 a dark fuliginous brown, and the fore -wings of the females more shaded 

 with brown grey than is usual with the females captured at Lautaret. 

 These darker specimens have nothing to separate thein from ab. vinjata 

 above, except the more fuliginous tint of the fore- wings. Home male 

 specimens of the abs. obsolcta and inteniK dia are not at all separable 

 from these on the upper-sides. Coenont/mpha pamphilus. — Decidedly 

 rare. Of a bright tawny colour, with darker outer margin. The 

 underside fairly typical. 



Tribe: Erebiidi.- -3/r/rt;;/j*/V/.s cjtiiilinni. — The form that occurs 

 here shows, in the male, the fulvous band of the fore-wings reduced to 

 a series of small interneural fulvous blotches, each containing a black 

 dot, whilst on the hind-wings there are usually two or three small 

 fulvous rings, each containing a black dot. The females have a wide, 

 continuous, fulvous band crossing the fore-wings, containing 2, 3, 4 

 or 5 small black dots, whilst the hind-wings have four small 

 fulvous rings, three of which contain black central dots. The under- 

 side of the fore-Avings of the females is almost entirely fulvous, whilst 

 the underside of the hind-wings is much paler than that of the males, 

 and bears only the faintest traces of the fulvous rings and dots that 

 characterise the upper side. Miiawpias welanipux and M. pliarte. — At 

 Lautaret, the males run from typical melaiiijni.s, with four or five black 

 dots in the fulvous band, through specimens with 3, 2, 1 and no black 

 dots, /.('., to typical male phartc. The shape of the wings, too, varies 

 from the typical rounded-Avinged wdawpm to the more pointed-winged 

 ji/iartc, some of the specimenr; which are pliarte, so far as their 

 unspotted band goes, being nwlaiiijius by the rounded character of the 

 apices of the fore-wings. The females are all typical pliarte, with a 

 band more orange than fulvous, and with the band distinctly pale, as 

 in pharte, on the underside. It would appear that here nit'lampiis and 

 pharte form but one species, however distinct they may be in some 

 districts. Of course, it would be easy to separate the spotted forms 

 from the unspotted forms, and call the former nickniipiis, and the latter 

 pliarte, but it would not get over the difficulty of the females 

 being all of one form, nor of the fact that a proportion of 

 the H/f'Za»V'"-^'-shaped males are unspotted, and vice versa. The 

 species were not uncommon in the flowery meadows, but rather 

 passe. Mr. Nicholson, to whom I have submitted the specimens, 

 writes: " I believe all these specimens to be mdampm. The round- 

 winged si:)ecimens are very like my Swiss ones. Melampus is hai-d to 

 define as a species." If Mr. Nicholson's views were to be accepted, it 

 would create a difficiilty, for I observe of Hiibner's figs. 491-494, from 

 which the species pliarte is named : — " Hiibner's figs. 491 and 492 are 

 identical with the Lautaret females, whilst his figs. 493 and 494 are 



