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7 eye-dots on the upperside. — Lai\a yieeiiisli grey, with icdihsli dorsal Hne, white subdorsal ones and 

 yellow side-stri])e ; head greyish green with brown lines; stigma yellow; until June on grasses. Pupa 

 greenish grey, posteriorly spotted with-red brown and blai'k. The butterflies from June till August on 

 road-sides in woods and on the edges of meadows, tlying among the undergrowth of leaved woods, and 

 being plentiful throughout the distribution-area. 



E. narica Hhn.(iQd). Above there is a very conspicuous scent-stripe in the o" below the posterior iwricn. 

 portion of the cell of the forewing. Beneath both sexes have on the hindwing a sinuous median band which 

 on both sides is shaded with white and sharply bordered with dark. South Russia, distributed throughout 

 the steppes to Turkestan and Saisan. ~ In the smaller, but otherwise similar naricina Stgr. {4f6e), from the naricina. 

 shores of the Caspian Sea, the & has a much narrower scent-stripe and the ? a smaller apical ocellus. 

 In June and July, on flowering tamarinds. 



E. kirghisa. Smaller than muica, with more obtuse wings; the o^ has usually below tiie apical eye 

 a smaller accessory ocellus: the eye-dot in the anal angle of the hindwing distinct in the cf. The under- 

 side of the hindwing is crossed by .3 curved dentate lines. — In the nymotypical kirghisa Alph. (46 e), kirghisa. 

 from the western Tian-shan, the blackish grey scent-stripe of the cf contrasts sharply with the ground- 

 colour. - In the form chamyla .S7 r/r. r4Be) the whole basal area as far as the centre of the forewing is chamyla. 

 darkened in the cf, the dark scent-stripe hardly contrasting. The black margins of the wings, moreover, 

 are broader, there remaining on the hindwing only a small central yellow cloud on tlie disc. The end of 

 May and June in Turkestan, at Kuldja and in the Tian-shan; on flowering tamarinds. - haberliaueri Sfip: haberhaueri. 

 (46 f) is quite similar on the underside, but is above so much darkened that thei'e is only in the disc of 

 the forewing an ochre-yellow smear through which the median vein runs as a black curved streak. At 

 Kuldja, in the Alai-Dagh, from 3000 to 6000 ft. — sartha Gr.-dfah., from the Pamir, is about midway bet- sartha. 

 ween the last two forms; the dark margin is much broader than in kin/hisa , but there still remains even 

 on the hinxlwing an ochre-yellow discal patch. — maureri Stfp: (= galtscha Gr.-Gish:) (47 a) is essentially "wureri. 

 smaller and has the upperside so much darkened that in the cf even on the forewing there is liardly any 

 ochre-yellow colour visible on the disc. In the Pamir district, Karategin Mts.. Alai-Dagh. - germana Sti/r. germana. 

 (46 f) has the size of kirghisa, but the dark upperside of maureri; the yellow colour of the disc, however, 

 remains as distinct rings around the ocelli; Alexandei- Mts. — ab. rubriceps Ilerz flies in June in Northern rnbriceps. 

 Bokhara among nymotypical kirghim; beneath exactly Wke haherhaueri, but the hindwing above is red-brown 

 on the disc, the forewing, too, show'ing above still some red-brown, wdiich extends to the hindmargin. — 

 The butterflies of these forms are not rare in their flight-places. They are fond of hot sunny mountain-sides 

 with sparse vegetation, and fly only a few yards when disturbed; in June and July, in especially hot loca- 

 lities already in May. 



E. rueckbeili Stgr. (46 f, g). Ground-colour ochre->ellow, all the wings margined with black-brown meMeili. 

 and darkened in very diff'erent degrees, the upperside now resembling one form of kirghisa , now another. 

 At once recognized by the underside of the hindwing bearing on an almost uniformly earth-grey ground a 

 row of 4- 6 jiartly contiguous ocelli. Kuldja. 



E. naubidensis Ers<h. (46 f ). cf dark above, recalling the o" of E. hjcaun, but the underside of the nauhidensis. 

 hindwing mostly with some ocelli, also not being unicolorous as in the previous specis, but having a 

 distinct dark irregular median band, which is distally broadly pale. ? beneath usually with the apical eye 

 very large and pupilled, there being a second, bhnd, ocellus between the median veins. — Pamir: Turkestan. 

 in June and July, on hot mountain-sides, but also in the steppes where Stipa grows; plentiful. 



E. amardaea Led.{^%g). The upperside in the (f dark, as in bjcaon , in the ? with an abbreviated amardaea. 

 ochre-yellow band nearly as in a small jttrtina-'i. Easily recognizable by the underside of the hindwing, 

 which in typical specimens has distinct and prominent markings, and is crossed by a median band which 

 is bordered with black at both edges.' Achal-Tekke district and Persia, rather widely distributed and 

 locally plentiful, in July. — In Ferghana also specimens occur with the underside more unicolorous; this 

 is glasunovi Gr.-Grsh. glasunovi. 



E. capella Christ. (46 g). Similai- to the preceding. larger: the upperside in the c/ with a reddish capella. 

 golden coppery gloss . in the ? similar to the jurtina-2. On the underside of the liindwing the paler distal 

 area is clouded with white, being separated by a feeble sinuous line from the but slightly darker basal area, 

 which is finel}' pencilled with brown. — In the Pamirs, Turkestan and North Persia, in the high mountains, 

 at about 10000 ft., on slopes covered with detritus, in June and .Tuly. 



E. hilaris Stgr. (= pulchella Gr.-Grsh.) (46 g). One of the smallest species, not larger than the cf hilaris. 

 of ida. Forewing light ochre-yeUow, their margin and the whole hindwing bro^\•n-grey. The apical ocellus 

 rather large, non-pupilled above. Underside of hindwing earth-grey, with 2 or 3 partly obsolescent or in- 

 complete undulate curved lines. - bori Herz are specimens with the underside of the hindwng entirely bori. 

 w^thout markings and the disc of the forewing very pale: in Northern Bokhara. In the & there is between 



