TOO THE HTTTKKFI-II'^S Ol' S\\ ITZK.HI.ANf) 



Tribe Satykioi. 



Genus, Satyrus, L((tr. Fd. pit. i^'msses : liyl). 1. 

 Prevailing col. v. dk. hrn. 



S. Hermione, L. (Hermione major, E.sp.) ; 70mm. 

 $ with much more conspicuous band up.s. than J . 

 Dist. Char. Unintemipted band extending across f. and h.w. up.s. 



Loc. [I have given the Iocs, as I find them i-ecorded for 

 Hermione and Aleyone respectively, but with regard to the Swiss 

 forms, esp. those of the Jura, Vaud, and the Valais. r. infra.] 

 Basle; Liestal {(Virist); Schafl'hausen, c. [Trapp) ; Oherutzwyl 

 (T(hcliler) ; the P)echburg {Il.-S.) ; Aargau (Wschl.) ; the Jura, e.t/.. 

 nr. Basle (C/irist); above Neuchatel, viii. 26, v. worn {Il.-Ilni.) : 

 Vallorbe, viii. <), itc. /02, rather worn (W/i.) ; St. Cergues, vii. 20 

 (Bl.) ; throughout Vaud and the Valais, e.f/., Lausanne (J/.-/>.) ; 

 above Montreux, viii. .5/{)6 {R.-Brn.) ; Aigle, and thence to Sepey, 

 V. ab., vi. e.-viii. m. (HV/.) ; Martigny, vi. 14/01 {Sloper) ; all along 

 the Rhone Valley and the lateral valleys {Far.) ; on the Simplon 

 Road up to the 4th Refuge (its exti-eme altitude, I think), vii. m. 

 /98, V. ab., usually v. worn by viii. m. (T17/.) ; in the Orisons only 

 in the 3 S. Valleys, Misox, Bergell, and Poschiavo (Frey) ; Lugano 

 (-R.--S.) ; San Stefano, vi. 29 {Mayer). 



M.t. de Sion, nr. Geneva, vii. 20 {Bl.) ; kc. ; throughout the S. 

 alpiuH valleys of France, N. Italy, the Tyrol, &c. 



Directions of Yar. (a.) decrease in size, culminating in : 

 var. Alcyone, Nr/////. (Hermione, Ih-k/i..- Hermione minor. A'.s/*.) ; 

 i55mni.-r)8m)n. 

 [Obs. — After much correspondence and the comparison of many specimens 

 from various Iocs. I feel convinced, esp. as there is nothing v. distinctive in the 

 earlier stages, that Alcyone is merely the extreme form in one direction of the 

 same sp. of wh. Herviioiw from the Riviera is the other extreme. It would 

 be easy to form a series in wh. each insect would scarcely differ from those on 

 each side of it, but the extremes of wh. should be the most pronounced forms 

 of Hermione and Alcyone. In districts where both are found, as on the 

 Riviera, they are distinct enough, aiid the separation into 2 sj^- niay be almost 

 complete, Uermiove inhabiting the lowlands, Alcyone also the higher grd.; 

 ifen/ijojie resting on tree irunks, Alcyone on rocks; the It. band of Alcyone, 

 up.s., being narrower and more suffused than in Hennione, &c., but in Vaud 

 and the Valais, the specimens are intermediate in size, markings and habitat, 

 and on one side of the Aigle valley rest chiefly on trees, on the other side on 

 rocks. None of the usual distinctions hold good in the average Swiss speci- 

 mens. To take a few links in the chain the following are representative : — 

 (i.) Hermione from the Riviera; (ii.) Hermione from S. Grisons ; (iii.) Her- 

 mione, so-called, from the .lura; (iv.) Hermione, so-called, from the Rhone 

 Valley ; (v.) Alcyone from the Riviera ; (vi.) Alcyone from Saxony. Frey 

 treats both as one sp.] 



Log. The Bechburg {B.-S.) ; Veyrier, vii. 13 ; viii. 3 and 24 

 {Bl.) : singly throughout the Rhone Valley {Far.) ; i.e., specimens 

 wh. more nearly approach typical Aleyone: nr. Fiesch, 2/95: 

 Berisal, vii. 80/97, &c. [H.-Bm.). 



Bourg St. Maurice, viii. b. /98 ; St. Michel-de-]\laurienne, vii. e. 

 /97 ; Bourg d'Oisjms. viii. m. /96'; Bourg d'Aru. viii. m. 96; Ij:i 

 Grave, viii. li. 96; hclow Alirirs, viii. <). T.KIO {Tntt): Alpes 



