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doptera. The previous point of view that alcetas was a form of E. 

 arifiadeti led us to work out for this purpose all that was known (or at 

 least recorded) of alcetas. These details would be somewhat super- 

 fluous now in our work, but appear to be of sufficient importance to 

 students of Paltearctic lepidoptera to warrant us in placing the facts 

 of the other side tending to support the view that alcetas is specifically 

 distinct from aniiades, before lepidopterists generally. We, therefore, 

 add our own summarised history of 



EvERES ALCETAS, HoFFMANSEGG, AND ITS AB. UECOLORATA, StAUD. 



Stnonymy.— .dZcetas, Hoffmansegg, "111. Mag.," iii., p. 205(1804); Hiibner, 

 " Schmett. Eur.," text p. 51 (180G) ; Tutt, " Ent. Rec." xx., p. 79 (1908). Tiresias, 

 Eh., " Eur. Schmett.," pi. Ixv., figs. 319-321 (1799). Coretas, Ochs., " Die 

 Schmett.," i., pt. 2, p. 60 (1808) ; Meig., " Eur. Schmett.," ii., p. 14, pi. xliv., figs. 

 5a-h (1830) ; Bdv., " Gen. et Ind. Meth.," p. 10 (1840) ; Dup., " Cat. Meth.," p. 31 

 (1844) ; Selys, " Mem. Soc. Rcy. Sci. Liege, ii., pt. i., p. 31 (1845); Heydrch., " Lep. 

 Eur. Cat. Meth.," p. 15 (1851) ; Westd. and Hew., " Gen. Diurn. Lep.," ii., p. 490 

 (1852); Led., " Verh. zool.-hot. Gesell.," p. 19 (1852); Gerh., " Mon. Eur. Schmett.," 

 p. 8, pi. xi., fig. 5 (1853); Staud., " Cat.," 1st ed., p 4 (1861); 2nd ed., p. 9 (1871); 

 Frev, " Lep. Schweiz," p. 14 (1880) ; Kane, " Eur. Butts.," p. 35 (1885) ; Riihl, 

 " Europ. Gross-Schmett.," i., p. 229, 750 (1895) ; Tutt, " Brit. Butts.," i., p. 185 

 (1896); Stand., " Cat.," 3rd ed., p. 77 (1901); Wheel., " Butts. Switz.," p. 44 (1903); 

 Jachon., " Rev. Ent. Russ.," iv., p. 96 (1904) ; Brown, " BiUl. Soc. Ent. Fr.," p. 11 

 (1905); Obth, " Feuille dea Jeun. Nat.," 4th ser., p. 149 (1906); Grund, "Int. 

 Entom. Zeit.," xxi., p. 125(1907); Rebel, " Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien.," Iviii., p. 32 

 (1908). Pohjsperchon, Hb., "Verz.," p. 69 {circ. 1818); S%s, "Mem. Soc. Roy. 

 Sci. Liege," ii., pt. i., p. 31 (1845); Mab., " Bull. Ent. Soc. Fr.," pp. 64, 70-71 (1877); 

 Wheel., " Butts. Switz.," p. 44 (1903). — Papilio alcetas. — Pale blue butter- 

 fly. Wings above in the ^ shaded sky-blue, bordered with black, and, on the 

 hindwings on the border of the fringes, at least towards the tail, marked with 

 distinct black spots ; ? above wholly brown, fringes in both sexes whitish ; under- 

 sides pale ash-grey, with the usual spots and bands finely marked, but without a 

 trace of an ochre-colour suffusion. Habitat : Austria. This and the preceding 

 species (amyntas) are delicately tailed (Hiibner). Localities : Austro-Huxgary — 

 Hungary — 1st brood 19mm.-26mm. ; 2nd brood, 22mm.-29mm. BudajDest, Peszer, 

 Nagyvarad, Pecs, Pozsony, Tavarnok, Kocsocz, Arvavdralja, Golniczbanya, Eperjes, 

 Nagyszeken, St. Gothard, Lipik, Fiume. Near Eperjes sometimes coloured as L. 

 optilete ; the ? rarely tinged with bhie (Aigner-Abafi). Lower Austria : Hernstein, 

 singly (Rogenhofer) ; Carinthia — the southern foot of the Petzen in the Topla- 

 Ditch at Schwarzenbach, July 12th, at most places in road, no typical forms 

 (Hofner) ; Dalmatia (Mann) ; Tyrol — Bozen, July 8th, 1903, with typical argiades 

 (Lowe) ; Mendel, July, 1895 (Lemann), July 12th, 1904 (Rowland-Brown) ; Cam- 

 piglio, July 10th-25th, 1895 (Lemann). France : Alpes-Maritimes (Bromilow) ; 

 Basses-Alpes— Digne, June loth, 1890 (A. H. Jones) ; April 29th, 1897 (Chapman) ; 

 June 7th, 1899, tails small (Brown) ; May 11th, 1902, on the mtns., in the direction 

 of Les Dourbes, at considerable elevation (Rosa) ; May 7th, 1903, May 2nd, 1905, 

 (? and ? in co/j. (Sheldon) ; May 19th, 1906 (Reverdin) ; Basses-Pyrenees — St. 

 Jean de Luz (Mabille) ; Gironde — Bordeaux( Gaschet) ; Haute-Savoie — July 7th, 

 1905, at Brides-les-Bains, July 29th, 1905, at Salins (Reverdin) ; Puy-de-Dome — 

 Capucin, Mont Dore (Kane) ; Pyrenees-Orientales — from 500m.-700m.; double- 

 brooded, at the foot of the Mont de Feuilla, between Villefranche de Conflent and 

 Vernet-les-Bains, May, 1886, May-June, 1900 ; in the Bois de Pinats, July, 1886, 

 1891, 1894, 1895, 1906; ? invariably black above, without orange marginal spot 

 on hindwings ; both sexes lack orange beneath ; the c? does not vary, nor does 

 the ? except in size (Oberthur) ; June 18th-28th, 1905, July 16th, 1906', at Vernet 

 (Rowland-Brown); June 16th, 1907, at Vernet (Keynes). [Germany: Pomerania — - 

 Once in the Schrey, July, 1868 (Hering) ; forest of Cmmmenliagen, rarely (Spor- 

 mann) ; Hanover — reported from Osnabruck (Jammerath) ; Posen — in June, on 

 roadside near Kobylepole (Schultz).--'] Italy: Tuscan Appenines — Vallombrosa 

 800m.-900m., ver}^ local, August (Verity). Switzerland: Valais, double-brooded, 



* Can anyone say whether these localities still produce coretas, oris a specimen 

 of Spormami, Jammerath and Schultz still available for inspection. 



