24 NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS 



defined than in the allied species, within which is a row 

 of oval spots of the ground-colour, bordered within with 

 blackish. Fore-wings with a discoidal kinule. Hind-wings 

 with a row of narrow, oval, black, marginal spots ; discoidal 

 spot orange, very inconspicuous. Fringes rosy. 



Larva unknown. 



Hab. Lapland. 



CoLiAS BooTHii, Curtis. 



Colias Bootlm, Curt. ; Doubl. and Hew. ; H.-S. 39, 40 

 (not 459, 460), but not of other authors. 



Exp. 2 in. 



Green ; fore-wings suffused with orange from base and 

 inner margin to the large and round discoidal spot. Hind- 

 margin narrowly black, rounded, and cut regularly by the 

 veins in $ ; spotted in $ . Underside very dark green ; 

 inner margin of fore-wings orange, discoidal spot black with 

 a white pupil, that of hind-wings red with one or two white 

 pupils. Fringes rosy. VII. — VIII. 



Larva unknown. On Papilionacece 1 



Hab. Lapland. 



I omitted this species in my Manual, as all the specimens 

 I had then seen were from Arctic America. 



By some extraordinary mistake, all the Continental authors 

 have made C. Hecla of Lefebvre synonymous with C. Boothii 

 of Curtis, though the latter is one of the most conspicuous 

 species of the genus. I am not yet satisfied that there is not 

 another and commoner species confounded with C. Hecla on 

 the Continent under the name of C. JBoothii. 



Colias Heldreichi, Staud. 

 This species is synonymous with C. Lihanotica of Lederer, 

 which is the oldest name. It is one of the largest and most 

 splendid species in the genus. 



