AND THE ALPS OF CKNTRAL EUROPK. 101 



Dist. Char. un.s. h.w. lar^c wedge-shaped wh. laud from costa, 

 edged externally with chocolate col. 



Loc. Gen. distributed in the same cantons as Ilia {q.v.), and 

 also Schaffhansen ; much commoner in E. Vaud, e.;/., ab. between 

 Aigle and Sepey, vii. 5/01, &c. (Wh.) ; and in the Orisons, Coire, 

 Pnltigau, the Ehine ^'alIey (KiUias) ; sometimes at great heights, 

 ('.(/., top of the Rochers de Naye (f'/.s.), &c. ; emerges later than 

 ///(/, vii.-viii., e.;/., Villeneuve, viii. 9/01 {Wh.) ; sometimes, 

 however, rather earlier, even at considerable elevations, c.//., Jaman, 

 vi. 24/01 (Slopcr) ; ab. in the forests of the Jura up to 2800ft. 

 {Kane). 



Alpes Maritimes (/>/-H^.) ; Val Scsia {Kane); Certosa di Pesio, a 

 few in lower valley, vi. '92 {Xorris) ; \'i]lach and Wolfsberg, vii. /97 

 {Lull}.). 



Directions of Yar. [ii.) tendency of wh. to diminish, culmi- 

 nating in : 

 ab. lole, Seliiff. (Beroe, Fabr.) ; in which only the apical spots 

 remain. 



Loc. With type but v. scarce ; Berne {Mehsner) ; Burgdorf 

 {M.-D.) ; Liestal {Christ) ; Alpes Maritimes {Brm.), &c. 



Fam. LIBYTHEIDiE. 

 Genus, Libythea, Fahr. 



Prevailing col. brn. with or. blotches. 



L. Celtis, L(iir]i(nli)uj {Fsd.) ; 4(>min. Fd. pit. (\7//.s 

 auatralis ; hyb. im. 

 9 rather larger than S • 

 Dist. Char. A projecting ang. on out. marg. f.w., h.w. concave on 

 costa, and again at upper |)art of out. marg. 



Loc. In Switz. confined to the S. From the village of Simplon 

 down to (and beyond) the frontier to half an hour above Crevola ; 

 at the village vii. /97 {I'iiiuieler), but v. rarely so high up the Pass; 

 Lugano, iv. 10/02, mostly worn (/'V.s,) ; C'lnasso, vi. 26/92 {Alai/er) ; 

 Roveredo, entrance to Misox Valley (////.); Brusio, vii. 18 /Ol, 

 some V. fresh {Fis.). 



Digne, vi. /90, vii. /91 {Nie/udsou); Cannes, iv. e. /98 {Tutt) ; vii. 

 {Pouell) ; Thorenc, vii. {Powell), Certosa di Pesio, vii. /92, two or 

 three only {Norria) ; Crevola, vi. 3/99, fresh; v. 20, 1900, torn to 

 shreds; Val Anzasca, vi. 12 and 15. 1900, fresh; Sarntbal and 

 Eggenthal. vi. e. /Ol, ab. : \ii. 1 1 02. a few {Loire): Mendel, vii. 

 /9B {Liiiit.) ; Husa, vi. 1>S 01, worn (Loire) ; vi. 26, c. on the Sta. 

 Maria road, and also on the left bank of the Doria under the Mt. 

 Cenis road {L'.-}>ni.) : viii. ni. 96 {Tuff): nr. Sondrio. viii. 9(). 

 not c. {Miss Ftn.). 



A])parently enieigcs vi. vii.. continue-; (Ui the wing through viii., 

 ;in(! after hybernation jip] eai> i\. \. and into vi., almost, if not 

 quite, ov<-rlHp])im; the new bvofMl. 



