In Greece (Parnassus) the males are like those from Banat, 

 Hungary, but the females are somewhat different. 



In Hungary the wings on the upper-side of the females are lit up 

 by a red band, on which stand out the black ocelli with very large 

 white pupils on the under-side, the reddish band remains on the upper 

 wings, but the lower wings are of a light yellowiah-grey with a pretty 

 good number of brown striae. 



The females from Mount Parnassus are darker than those from 

 Banat, the red band is almost entirely wanting, and the lower part of 

 their under wings (under-side) is of a deep brown tint instead of 

 being a light yellowish-grey. 



If we examine the Pyrenean types, we find in the Asturiaa 

 (Picos de Europa) the males absolutely black and often without ocelli, 

 the females also very dark with few ocelli, and with the lower wings 

 on the under-side of a silvery-grey, much lighter towards the exterior 

 edge, and turning darker with a thick dusting of dark atoms from the 

 base up to about two-thirds of the surface. 



In the Eastern Pyrenees the males are as in the Asturias, black, 

 without the red band, but with rather more ocelli ; the females are 

 darker with the under-side of the lower wings brown and not silvery- 

 grey, so that one may say that the female form from Greece (lighter) 

 is to the female form from Hungary (darker) as the female form from 

 the Asturias is to the female form from the Eastern Pyrenees. 



In the Hautes Pyrenees both males and females have often red 

 bands, they have many ocelli, and recall somewhat the Armenian form 

 Hewitsojii . 



There exists to my knowledge a form fairly intermediate between 

 that of the Eastern Pyrenees (Mont Canigou, Pla Guilhem) and that 

 of the Hautes Pyrenees (Cirque de Gavarnie, Pic du Midi, heights 

 above Cauterets). This intermediate form occurs to the west of the 

 Eastern Pyrenees department in the mountains of Cambrusdase. 



How does the South Tyrol form of E. melas compare with those 

 previously mentioned ? 



The males, like those from Greece, Banat and the Eastern Pyre- 

 nees, are black, they have three black ocelli pupilled with white on the 

 lower wings and two larger black ocelli, also pupilled with white on 

 the upper wings. 



The female is of a deep brown colour with two large blivck ocelli, 

 pupilled with white towards the apex of the upper wings, and one or 

 two very small ones between the two larger ones ; the lower wings 

 have, above as well as below, three small black ocelli pupilled with 



