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JEpinepliile Janira, common everywhere : Hyperanthus, common 

 everywhere. 



CoenomympJia Arcania, Gt. Saleve and Dole : Pamphilus, every- 

 where. 



Syriclithus cartliami^ cacalice, and andromedce, Dranse valley below 

 Orsieres : malvce, Grreat St. Bernard. Ghamouny : Sao, Buttier and 

 Dranse valleys. 



Nisoniades Tages, Dranse and Buttier valleys, and Chamouny. 



Sesperia Thaumas, everywhere : lineola, Arve valley : Si/lvmius, 

 common in all parts. 



Carterocepliala Palcemon, Orsieres and Chamouny. 



Macroglossa stellatarum, Dranse and Arve valleys. 



Zygcena scahiosce, Arve valley : acliillece, Buttier valley : exulans, 

 reared from the Great St. Bernard, where the larvae were very abun- 

 dant indeed : trifolii ab. orohi in which the tw^o median spots are not 

 united as is the case in trifolii proper. The ground-colour of two 

 specimens from the Buttier valley is steel-blue, with the black border 

 of the hind-wings broader than in typical German or British specimens: 

 V. duhia, Staudinger describes this in his catalogue as follows : — 



Zygcena v. duhia, " v. major, al. ant. macul. 5 vel. 6, al. post, latius nigris " of 

 this we took a large number in the Buttier valley, in none of which are the central 

 or basal spots confluent. The series is so interesting that I will describe thena in 

 detail. 



a. Fore-wings steel-blue with the median spots red instead of crimson, and narrowly 

 separated, hind-wings also red with a broad black border, spots on under-side all 

 disconnected. 



h. Fore- wings bluish-bronze, with the spots crimson, smaller than usual, the median 

 ones being more widely separated, hind-wings crimson with a broader black 

 border. 



c. Fore-wings bluish-green with all the crimson-red spots very small, the median 



ones being very oblique, and still more widely separated, and the hind- wings 

 having an exceptionally broad black border. On the under-side of this specimen 

 there is a distinct trace of a sixth red spot on the fore-wings. 



d. Fore-wings greenish-bronze with the crimson spots small, and the 6th spot just 



visible (well marked on the under-side), the hind- wings are crimson with abroad 

 black border. In none of the foregoing are the anterior- wings at all transparent. 



e. G-reen or blue-bronze, with markings similar to " d" but rather redder, and the 



6th spot becoming much more visible, the black border of the hind-wings is 

 decidedly narrower and more uniform, and the under-side of the fore-wings is 

 suffused with red, they also have a tendency to being slightly transparent as is 

 noticeable in Jilipendulce. 



f. In this variety the sixth spot is well marked, and were it not for the very broad 



and blue-black border of the hind-wings, it might be mistaken ^ov filipendwloe. 



