LÉPIDOPTÉROLOGIE COMPARÉE QI 



Ihat thc head has a long ruddy fur, replacing ail trace of the 

 silber lines round the eyes so conspicuous in C. rubï. The andro- 

 conial brand on the cf forewing is triangular, perhaps a shade 

 broader than in C. rubï, but of only about half the length along 

 the line of the veins, that it has in C. rubï, in which it is oval 

 or fusiform. The club of the antenna is red or fleshcolour, ail 

 along the lower inner side, a colour confined in C. rubï to a few 

 terminal joints of the club, and the same on ail aspects of the 

 antenna. There is rather a différent shade of green on the 

 underside, and the white line has quite a différent character from 

 that in C. rubï. It is narrow, but continuous; it is, in fact, usually 

 broken by each vein, but looks continuous compared with C. rubï, 

 in which the Hne breaks up into spots, rather than become narrow 

 as in C. avis. Either really, or as an effect of its narrowness, it 

 has a suggestion of being faintly tinted green. It is entirely 

 without the dark scales along its inner margin that are so constant 

 in C. rubï. The portion in each interneural space is curved. It 

 occupies ail the spaces on each wing, from the costa to the space 

 in front of vein two, but is bright towards the costa (space 

 between six and seven), and fades towards the inner part of the 

 wing. The row of spots in C. rubï is much more irregular. The 

 first spot on the hindwing slopes inwards, in C. rubï it slopes 

 outwards, giving the second spot the appearance of bemg dis- 

 placed inwards in C. rubï, outwards in C. avis. The (3 appendages 

 hâve only slight différences. I hâve not examined sufficiently 

 numerous spécimens to be able to assert that thèse are constant. 



It spécialises in its foodplant, instead of being quasi omnivorous 

 like C. rubï. 



Habitat, Southern France (Var and Pyrénées-Orientales), 

 Morocco (Tangier). The only spécimen I hâve seen, not in my 

 possession, is one of the Brit. Mus. Collection, ranged with C. rubï 

 var. fervïda, and labelled « Tangier, Elwes Coll. » 



Dans les Transactions of the eniomological Society of London, 

 1909 {Proceedings, Wednesday, June 2""*, p. XXIX), on lit sur le 

 même objet ce qui suit : « New Palaearctic Species of Callophrys. 



