290 THE entomologist's RKC(»RD, 



considerable variation in the number of the little black spots on both 

 fore- and hind-wings, and also in the development of the orange band 

 in the males, one specimen having most of the usual black spots 

 obsolete. In the females, the orange band is strongly developed, and 

 of a very rich tint on both fore- and hind-wings ; whilst the silvery 

 studs in some specimens are magnificently developed. Plrbcins (iptilctc 

 — Seven specimens, of which six have the orange spots on the hind 

 margin of the underside of the hind-wings well marked, although the 

 usual silvery-blue marginal studs in them are quite evanescent. One 

 specimen is smaller, and in it the orange marginal spots on the under- 

 side of hind-wings are also evanescent. This is, perhaps, Htaudinger's 

 Lapland var. ci/iiarissHs, Hb., which he describes as "minor." So 

 far as size is concerned, the first six specimens do not appear to be 

 less than those I have taken in various Alpine localities, and hence 

 Staudinger's limitation of the type form to " Southern " Scandinavia, 

 and the var. ci/parissiis to " Lapland " would appear to be unwar- 

 ranted. Poli/iiiiniKttHs icanis. — A uuile specimen from Bodo (July 

 80th), typical above, but pale and faintly marked beneath. The bases 

 of the underside of the hind-wings covered with bright blue scales. 

 Another male specimen, from Elvenaes (August 4.th), is of the same 

 form. /'. icitnis was seen at each locality, except Vadsii, always worn, 

 and even tattered, nowhere common. 



Fam. : Pierid.e.— 7v(tt7(Zoe ranlainincs. — One female from Naes, 

 captured July 28th. Of rather small size, but not remarkably so, 

 shaded slightly with dark along the costa from the base to the rather 

 large discoidal spot. The green of the underside of the hind-wings 

 paler than with us. 



Fam : Nymphalid.e. — Ann/nnis ai/laia. — One specimen of each sex 

 in line condition, the 2 much larger than the S . The upper side of 

 both specimens is rather more orange than is usual with us. The 

 striking character of the specimens is an attempt, as it were, to crowd 

 the black markings a little towards the base, and leave a rather wider 

 fulvous band through which the row of small round black spots (rather 

 ill-developed) runs from the costa, near the apex, to the inner margin. 

 The undersid(! of the fore-wings of the male shows the black s}K)ts 

 larger than usual, and the silvery spots of the hind-wings rather 

 smaller, otherwise the hind-wings are fairly typical beneath, greenish- 

 fuscous at the base, a yellowish ante-marginal band, and a marginal 

 row of well-developed silvery spots. A. aijlaia was abundant, but 

 rather worn, at Bodo, and the species was seen at several other places. 

 linntliin pales. — Fifteen specimens captured at Bodo, on July 30th. 

 These consist, apparently, of 14 males and 1 female. One of the males 

 inclines to the 5 ab. najnica, nine of the remaining males and the 

 female are all deeply fulvous in colour, and heavily marked with black. 

 The other fovu- males are paler fulvous, and the black spots are less 

 strikingly developed. The female has a faint suspicion of greenish in 

 the dark shading of the fore-wings, in three of the males, and the 

 one female, the black markings tend to form blotches towards the 

 inner margin of the wing, owing to the union of the two central trans- 

 verse bands in their lower parts. Beneath, these specimens have the 

 underside of the fore-wings distinctly marked with black = var. arsilarltc, 

 which Staudinger diagnoses as : " Al. ant. subt. nigro-maculatis.'' 

 The hind- wings beneath are deep red-brown, and almost unicolorous, 



