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Log. Gen. ab. in the Jura and the Alps, vii.-viii., extending in 

 the S. to the Alpes Maritimes, and in the E. to the Styrian and 

 Carinthian Alps. 



Directions of Yar. (a.) entire absence of wh. pupils in eye-spots, 

 (b.) diminution of red-brn. band up.s., culmi- 

 nating in : 

 ab. Ocellaris, Sti/r. ,• in wh, it is reduced to small patches. 



Log. Canton Glarus {Christ) ; Larche, viii. b. 1900, as ab. 

 (Tutt); Heiligenblut, with type, vii. 28/97, c. (Lmn.) 



(c.) obsolescence of blk. spots on red. band, 

 culminating in : 

 ab. Euryalo'ides, TeiviHtrom : in wh. they are almost extinct 

 up.s. f.w. 

 Loo. Toblach, viii. 4/95 ; Cortina district — Croda di Lago, viii. 5- 



15 /95; Cristallo, viii. 8/95 ; Falzarego Pass, viii. 6/95; Val Bigon- 

 tina, viii. 11/95 {Tutt) ; Heiligenblut, vii. 24/97 {Chp.). 



(d.) presence or absence of eye-spots un.s. h.w. 

 (e.) distinctness of lighter ante-margl. band 

 un.s. h.w. in $ ; gen. v. inconspicuous, 

 exc. the " tooth." 

 (f.) col. of It. ante-margl. band in 5 un.s. 

 h.w., gen. whitish, but sometimes 

 yell., forming : 

 ab. ? Ochracea, I(7t. ; Dr. Spuler speaks of this as if it were a 

 V. scarce form ; on the Simplon it is the usual one. 

 (g.) un.s. dusted with wh. 

 ab. Philomela, Eap. : wh. is without eye-spots un.s. h.w. 



Log. Gurnigel, ab. at about 4500ft. {J'rci/). 



[Obs, — Frey mentions a fine hermaphrodite, left side c? , right ? , wh. he 

 took on the Maloja, vii. /65.] 



E. Ligea, L. (Alexis, Esp.) ; 47mm. Fd. pit. MiUimii, 

 Ac. 

 $ with much more conspicuous series of eye-spots un.s. h.w. 

 than (? . 

 Dist. Char. un.s. h.w. a wh. curved wedge about middle of eosta 

 (v. conspicuous on dk. grd. col.) often continued as a broken 

 band more or less across the w. 



Log. Distributed throughout Switz. and Savoie at low elevations 

 but commoner in the N. than the S. In some places it is to be 

 found at over 5000ft., e.;/., Miirren, vii. e. viii. b. 1900(117/.); in the 

 lowlands it emerges vi. m. 



Less c. and more local S. of Switz., Bourg d' Oisans, viii. m. /9G; 



Abries, viii. m. 1900 (r/(«); Digne ; St. Martin Y esxihie {Poivell) ; 



Pre St. Didier, viii. b. /98 {Tutt); Certosa di Pesio, not uncommon, 



