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examining a specimen identified by Assinauu himself, remarks that 

 he should have taken it for Part/ioiit' by its up.s., but that on the 

 un.s. it showed in the out. dk. band of the h.w. the blk. spots 

 peculiar to Dicti/nna. This at once puts out of the question 

 Spnli'r\ description in the Schmetterlinge Europas, 1903, " border, 

 bases, and cross-lines broader and blacker, the palpi darker, and 

 the 8 red-brn. bands un-s. h.w. standing out more strongly." 

 Assinauu considered Jiritniiiavtis to be a distinct species. ; lii'ihl 

 considers that if it is not, it is probably a hybrid between Partheme 

 and JHctyuna, and not in any case a var. of Aiirdia: the hybrid 

 theory was a favourite one with Viiild, and in this group is possibly 

 far more often correct than one is apt to imagine. The following 

 Iocs, refer to the var. as described by Assinauu ; Mr. Fison's specimens 

 from Monte Bre and Val Solda would come under this head according- 

 to Spider and others.] 



Loc. In the Valais as an ab. only ; Sion ; Sierre ; Naters ; 

 Laquinthal (Fav.). 



M. Parthenie, ndli. (Parthenoides, Kefn'sfnu) ; SOmrn. 



Fd. pit. plantain, scabious, &c. 

 2 lighter and less unicolorous than j , with whitish bands 



un.s. h.w. 

 Dist. Char. up.s. f.w. cl. and ante-margl. bands v. slightly 

 divided by narrow blk. line often broken in middle ; cl. band 

 of h.w. in J conspicuously broad, and scarcely, if at all, 

 interrupted in the centre with blk. (This soinrtinirs occurs in 

 At/ialia.) Un.s. h.w. with dk. band nr. base gen. lighter and 

 narrower than in Athalia : further distinguished from the 

 latter by the palpi, wh. are golden-brn. above, with a dark line 

 below ; $ grd. col. much less unicolorous than Atlialia J , 

 and distinguished from Deivne var. lien'sal/'usis $ , which it 

 closely resembles above, by un.s. 



Loc. Swarms in many parts of the Rhone Valley, esp. in 1st 

 brood, vi.-vii. m. ; less ab. in the 2nd, viii.-ix; Veytaux, Aigle, 

 Charpigny, Bex, &c. (HV;.) ; LaBiitiaz, Charrat, Fully, Mt. Chemin, 

 Sierre, Salqvxenen, the Pfynwald, Loeche-les-Bains, Visp, Stalden, 

 &c. (Far.); also Veyrier, vi. 17; viii. 26; Versoix, viii. IH, &c. 

 (///.) ; Liestal, Engelberg, Meirengen, Interlaken, Brienz, &c. 

 (/•'m/); Oberhasli (.!/.-/>.); Gmlmcn, \. c. {Ii<it:t'r) ; Weissenburg, 

 V. c. in both broods (////.) ; the Jura, c.//., St. Georges, v. brt. (H7i.) ; 

 large at Basle, Zurich, and in the Grisons, and v. brt ; small and v. 

 bright in Tessin {P'rei/} ; San Martino (Mayer), &c. 



St. Martin Yesubie, Thorenc, Berthemont, &c. {Jinn.). 



Directions of Yar. (a.) diminution of size at greater altitudes, 



culminating in : 

 var. Yaria, M.-J>. ,■ down to 2Hmm. or even less ; <J v. brt., $ 

 often with slight greenish tinge. 



