THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XXVIL] DECEMBER, 1894. [No. 379. 



A VARIETY OF ARGYNNIS AGLAIA, L. 

 By Boris N. Menshootkin. 



Among the Lepidoptera captured this year near Longa 

 (Government of St. Petersburg) was a variety of A. ag la ia which 

 seems to me to be quite new. I had the good fortune to take 

 it on the 18th of July. The form perhaps also occurs in other 

 places, but so far I have not found a description of it anywhere. 



In general appearance it is very striking, the specimen being 

 almost entirely black, as will be seen from the accompanying 

 figure. The specimen was quite fresh, and appeared to have 

 only shortly left the pupa; it is now in the University's 

 collections. The following is a description : — 



Upper surface : — Fore wings are coloured as in ordinary 

 A. aglaia ; black spots, except in the discoidal cell, are not 

 individually to be seen. The marginal line is very thick, and 

 represents a black l)and ra,ther than a line ; the light spaces 

 between the marginal line and so-called " marginal lunules " are 

 absent, and the lunules themselves and the marginal line have 

 merged together ; therefore giving the latter the aspect of a 

 band. In the submarginal area a broad black belt occupies all 

 the space between the marginal and submarginal rows of black 



FiNTOM, DEC. 1894. 2 EJ 



