AND THE ALPS OF CENTRAL EUROPE. 



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(d.) tendency to exaggeration of blk. on h.w. 

 amounting occasionally to a double row of blk. spots. 



(e.) diminution of double disc, spot h.w. 

 [ab. Unimaculata, Tatt : in \vh. one is obsolete. 



ab. Pallida, Tiitt : in wh. it is barely visible. 



Obs —In Col. Agassiz' collection are 2 ? s, one with the un.s. h.w. entirely, 

 and the other partly It. bluish-grn., the latter irregularly streaked with or.; tor 

 this ab.. which may recur, is proposed the name : 



ab. Yiridescens, sioprr.] 

 • C. Chrysotheme, /•:^7^ .■ 88111111. -4-2iJiiii. Fd. pit. \'irl<( 



/lirsiita. 

 S without, ? with yell, spots in dk. border. 

 Dist. Char. f.w. up.s. yell, costa, in connection with It. dull or. 

 grd. col. 

 Loc. Styria and Carinthia ; Salzburg, vii.-viii. [Kane) ; above 

 Modling, viii. e. /97, c. (.Um Fin.). 

 Directions of Yar. (a.) size: {c. mpra). 



(b.) up.s. f.w. disc, spot often reddish at out- 

 line, sometimes outlined only in blk. and tilled in with reddish. 



^C. Myrmidone, il^p. ; 8-2mm.-45iniii. Fd. pit. Cijiisu^ 



hiflDiKs : ( 'istiis. 

 S without, ? with yell, spots in blk. border. 

 Dist. Char. f.w. up.s. costa yell, (in 3 ), in connection with red.- 

 or. grd. col. ; distinguished also from h'.ihiso by narrower blk. 

 border and in 2 by squarer yell, spots. 

 Log. St. Paul, Lavantthal, vii. m. /97 {l.nin.} ; Styria (^and N. 

 Italy), IV. -V. and vii.-viii. {Sjiiih-r). 

 Directions of Yar. (a.) size : (r. .s///)»v/). 



(b.) grd. col. of ? . 

 ab. I Alba. Stijr. .• almost wh. ; distinguishctl from ab. HclUe, as 

 type from Kilusa. 

 [Obs.— It is not unlikely that both the above sp. may have been overlooked 

 in various Iocs, as Kdiisn, e.g., Chrijuotheme in N.E. and Myrmidone in S.E. 

 Switz.j 



C. Edusa, I'dhr. (Hyale, E>^}>. : Crocpus. l-'omrnnj : 

 Electra, Larin : Helena, II. -S.): isimii. Fd. pit. clover, 

 trefoil, Sec. 

 S without, ? with brt. yell, spots in broad blk. border. 

 Dist. Char. brt. or. grd. col., deeper than ( hiiisathmir, not so 

 red as Miinuiihnu . 

 Loc. \'. gen. distril)uted in the lowlands and often ab. up to 

 40U0ft., mucii less ab. than U>iaU between 4000ft. and 6000ft., but 



