64: THE bUttekfLies of sWitzekland 



Log. IMgiie, on the Dourbes, vi. /89, nearly over {Mrs. XiclioU) ; 

 sparingly at about 8000ft. iv. e. /97 {Tntt). 



Genus, Euchloe, Hh. 



Prevailing col. wh. or pale yell. ; un.s. h.w. with greenish 



marbling. 

 Dist. Char. S with apex f.w. or. 



E. Cardamines, /.. ; 4"iiiiiii. Vd. \)\t. < '(inhniiinr jimtrnsls 

 and other Crticifntr. 

 \Vh. : J with, $ without ijroad or. apical blotch f.w. 

 Dist. Char. mi.s. h.w. marbling of small irregular dashes ex- 

 tending over whole \v. 

 Loc. (i<'ii. c. in lowlands imd subalpine region, iii. e.-vi. b., and 

 mountnig up well above ')()0()ft.. emerging later as altitude increases, 

 being found as late as viii. b. in the highest Iocs. My earliest date 

 is V'eytaux, iii. 17 '.)!>. tlu' latest 1 have found recorded is Zinal, viii. 

 2,1)8 V"'. -/•'•"• I- 



Directions of Yar. (a.) size: varies greatly, commonly 87mm.- 

 45nnn., exceptionally, 8lmm.-4ymm. 



(b.) size of disc, spot f.w. : its variation cul- 

 minates in : 

 ab. Lasthenia, Milli'<-re: in wh. (dl blk. is absent; un.s. h.w. with 

 \ . pale greenish-yell, markings. 



(c.) diminution of or. tip, culnunating in : 

 ab. Turritis, Ochs. .- in wh. it only just reaches disc. spot. 



Ohs. Tlie V. siiiiill specimens of this ab. ure called ab. Minor, Cvckerrll, 

 and ab. Hesperidis, Seinilnnji. and are considered l)y the latter to be a separate sp. 



(d.) S , 'in.s. f.w. sometimes with yell. grd. 

 col. exc. inn. nuirg. 

 ab. Citronea, 1(7*. 



Loc. Khone Valley, i^c. ; r.;/., x\igle, v. I). /08 {Sl(,i>cr) ; above 

 Htalden, v. 16/08 (117*.). 



(e.) 5 , sometimes a dull buff suffusion up.s. 

 h.w., esp. nr. cosia. 

 [Obs. — In the Geneva Museum is a hermaphrodite, the body appareiitli/ rf , ' 

 the \vs. more like the ? , but with the lower half of tip of left w. or., and an or. 

 streak on tip of right w. ; the rest of the tips show or. through the wh.j 



E. Euphenoides, .S7//;-. (Enpbeno, K^j). : Calleni)henia, 



lliitlii) ; HGmuj. 1-'(L pit. liisciifi'lla iliih/ma. 

 3 with primrose-yell., $ with wh. grd. col. (and a little or. 

 nr. apex). 

 Dist. Char. Slight extent of nuirbUng un.s. h.w. 



Loc. Monte lU'r (Miiir. Siiri'nt-M ii<t) ; Locarno [S/iiilcr) ; below 

 Ciondo (' lirist) ; iv.-v. [h'aiir). 



