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Directions of Yar. (a.) amount and distinctnefcs of or. spots un.s. 

 (b.) $ , amount of bl. at base of h.w. up.s. 

 (always slight). 



P. Damon, SV/////'. (Biton, Sulzer) ; 35mm. Fd. pit. 



Onohr)irliif< satira : hyb. 1. 

 cT brt. slightly greenish-bl.. with broad dlw suffused border, 

 ? smaller, brn. 

 Dist. Char. un.s. h.w. a long whitish streak, not wedge-shaped, 

 reaching almost from base to nr. out. marg. 

 Loc. Not c. in N. Switz. Schaffhausen {Trapp) ; !St. Gall 

 {T(hchler) ; Zurich (Freij) ; Liestal {Christ) ; Arlesheim (Knecht) ; 

 nr. Lucerne, viii. e. /99 (Sandford) ; Weggis, vii. /96; Kigi,vii. /96 

 {2\itt) ; gen. distributed, often c, and sometimes ab. in E. Vaud, 

 the Valais, the Bernese Oberlund and the Grisons; e.>/., les Avants, 

 vii. 30/01 (Slnper) ; Aigle to Sepey, vii. /97, and other years, v. ab. 

 (U7i.) ; viii. 2/9H (Jones) ; throughout the Rhone Valley, c. (Wh.); 

 Evolena, Inden, Loeche-les-bains, Visp valley up to St. Nicholas, 

 &c. (Fav.) ; below Berisal, v. c, viii. 20/97, and earlier other years 

 (Wh.) ; Weissenburg, c. (////.) ; Grindelwald and Miirren, vii. /89 

 {Lm7i.) ; c. nr. St. Moritz, vii. {NicJiohou) ; Guarda, vii. 1900 ; 

 Pontresina, vii. 1900 (C/ip.) ; Bad Alveneu, vii. /88 (Lmn.), &c. ; nr. 

 Geneva, Veyrier, vii. 13 ; Sierne, vii., Monnetier (Savoie), vii. (lU.) ; 

 not uncommon on the Jura Vaudois (117/.). 



Gen. c. in Savoie, Hautes Alpes, and Basses Alpes, e.g., la Clusaz, 

 viii. 4/02, V. ab. ; Abries, viii. m. 1900, v. ab. (Tntt) ; Digne, vii. 

 /91 {Lm7i.) ; Bourg d'Oisans, vii. m. /96 ; Bourg d'Aru, viii. m. 

 /96 ; Bourg S. Maurice, vii. e. /98 ; Petit St. Bernard, viii. b. /98 ; 

 Barcelonette, viii. m. WOO {Tntt); Barcelonette and Alios, vi. e. /92, 

 ab. (Xorris) ; local in Alpes INIaritimes. top of r>alme de la Frema, 

 7300ft. {Brm.) ; Cannes (Lmn.) ; Certosa di Pesio, ab. on damp spots 

 under Cima Car, and in Val Sestrera, vii. viii. /92 ; Courmayenr, 

 viii. m. /98 ; Pre St. Didier, viii. m. '98; above Bobbie, viii. 

 m. /Ol (Tutt). 



Directions of Yar. (a.) diminution of size, culminating in : 

 Yar. Ferreti, For. ; 25mm.-29mm. ; grd. col. of <? a much more 

 lavender tint, with dk. suffusion sometimes greatly enlarged, 

 esp. in Val Ferret ; un.s. <? and $ rather less dk., wh. streak 

 often more sharply defined. 

 Log. Ab. in the Val Ferret (or Ferrex),esp. at the Grand Ferret 

 (Far.) ; upper end of Lauterbrunnen valley, viii. 1, 1900 ; Vallorbe, 

 viii. b. /02 (HVf.) ; Campfer {Jones) ; Sierre, vii. 6/86, aberration, 

 (BL). 



Le Lautaret, vii. e. /96 ; Larche, vii. e. 1900; Cogne, vm. 7-12, 

 /94 ; Au Pra, viii. m. /Ol {Tntt). 



[Obs. — This var. was wrongly described in P'avre's " Lepidopteres du Valais " 

 as var. Actin, H.S., an error which is corrected in the " Supplement " of 1903.] 



(b.) tendency to obsolescence of sjiots, always 

 small, un.s. h.w. 



