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var. Artemis, I'ahi.: witli ahuust uniform fulvous grd. col. and 



\vell-(lo\ eloped blk. markings. 

 var. Signifera, Kane : with reddish fulvous grd. col., l)ut slight 



straw-col. in out. bund f.w. 

 var. Ochrea, 'I'mt : with grd. col. uniform ochreous : no red. 

 var. Brunnea, I'i'tt .■ with uniform brn. grd. col. resembling that 

 of Cinxia. 



(c.) a gen. paling of both tints, the red 

 becoming yellower, the yell, more 

 ochreous. 

 var. Provincialis, Hsdr. .- in wh. the dk. markings are also 

 lighter and less conspicuous. 



Loc. In Switz. only as ab. ; (rlion, 1 2 (^'/"/«'v) ; 1 2 (/'V.s.). 

 The usual form at low elevations in the Alpes Maritimes ; liasses 

 Alpes {Powell) ; cj/., Hospitalet (Kane) ; Digne, vi. /90 {Lmn.). 



var. Iberica, oht/i. (Desfontainii, limbr. : Desfontainesi, /y.-S'. ; 

 ]3eckeri, /.c/.j; in wh. the fulvous tint yet further predominates. 



Loc. Mt. Vinaigrier; Nice; !St. Martin Vesubie {Hnii., identi- 

 fied by Stf/r.). 



(d.) conspicuous brightening of red and yell., 

 approaching towards Matimia. 

 Yar. Orientalis, II. -S. (Pr^clara, Kane). 



Loc. By no means uncommon in Switz. esp. round the head 

 of the Lake of Geneva ; Glion ; Caux ; banks of the Khone at 

 ]3ouveret (rr/(.) ; ab. at Jeur-Brulee (Far.) ; Champery, vi. 2,02; 

 Le Prese, vii. 12/01 {Fi.s.). 



(e.) cl. pale band undivided at costa : 

 ab. Yirgata, Tutt. 



In the 2nd group the un.s. h.w. is divided into 5 fairly regular 

 bands of alternate yell, and or.-brn., more or less outlined in blk., 

 the inner deep-coloured band enclosing, or nearly enclosing, a yell, 

 spot, grd. col. of up.s. gen. nearly unicolorous, though in I'ho'hc 

 showing, in some forms v. clearly, the bands of the 1st group. 



M. Phoebe, hnorh (Corythallia, I'^sp.) ; 44iiim. L\[. pit. 



Centaurea scabioxa, ('. jaa'ci, I'lantai/o lanccolata, Ac. 

 2 gen. larger than J" . 

 Dist. Char. up.s. grd. col. reddish or., a cl. band on each w. and 

 inn. l)and f.w. and a spot nr. base of h.w. being somewhat 

 lighter. 



Loc. Widely distributed, but not found everywhere, c.i/., wantino- 

 in the Berne, Zurich and St. Gall districts [Fren); but found in the 

 N. at Schatfhausen {Trapji); and Basle {Kane); gen. c. in the S, 

 Cantons, both in the lowlands and alps up to 5000ft., and in the 

 Engadin as high as O-jOOft. : c.//., .Tura (/•><'//) ; Versoix, viii. IG, and 

 other places nr, Geneva {Bl.) ; Lea Avants, viii. 2/20 {U.-Urn.) ; 



