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THECLA. Hv Dr. A. Seitz. 



herzi. T. herzi Fixs. (= phellodendri Stgr. i. I.) (73d). Hindwing tailless, two teeth above the anal angle. 



Upperside unicolorous, the cT with a pale scent-spot. Underside traversed by two rows of black-centred 



ocelli, there being a similar spot at the apex of the cell. Hindwing beneath with small red anal band. 



fulva. Fixsen has proposed the names ab. fulva and ab. fulvofenestrata for specimens with a more or less large 



futvo- yellow discal patch on the forewing. — Amurland, Gorea. Larva velvety, uniformly dark green, beneath 



fenestrata. j^qj.^ bluish green, with the head glossy black. In June adult on Pyrus. Pupa light green, with a brownish 



violet saddle-spot (Gbaesek). The butterfly appears in Julj-, flying particularly about the twigs of Phello- 



dendrum amurense. 



thalia. T. thalia Leecli (73 e). Very similar to the preceding, but tailed, the ocelli somewhat differently 



aiTanged and the red anal baud of the underside more strongly developed. — In Central China at Chang- 

 Yang, at an altitude of 6000 ft., in June and July. 



ledereri. T. ledereri Bsd. (73 e). Tailed or tailless, with long fringes and the anal angle of the hindwing 



somewhat pointed. Upperside blackish brown, the basal area glossj' gre}' on both wings; in the anal area 

 of the hindwing an obsolescent russet-brown macular halfbaud. Underside light grey, the base dusted with 

 light blue; both wiugs with a row of exteriorly white-edged black ocelli, outside which there are black sub- 

 marginal spots on the forewing and a double row of dots on the hindwing with red spots between the two 

 rows. — In Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Transcaspia and Armenia, in May. 



hiiiulatii. T. lunulata Ersch. (73 e). Above similar to the preceding species; but underneath the blue basal 



dusting is absent or vestigial and the row of ocelli is replaced by a white curved band composed of 

 contiguous lunules. Above the anal angle a long thin tail, which is unfortunately not present in the figure, 

 as it was missing in the specimen figured. Anterior Asia, North Persia, the Pamirs and Hissar Mts., in 

 desert localities, in May. — There occurs also a tailless form, in which moreover the underside is more 

 acatidata. prominently marked, bearing a black dot at the concave side of each white halfmoou : this is acaudata Stgr.^ 

 from Ferghana. 



sassanides. T. sassanides A'o//. (= deria i/oore, mirabihs £Vsr/(., lunulata iPow.) (73 e). Tailed, above dark brown 



without markings. Beneath grej-, with a prominent, somewhat irregular, proximally dark-edged band of 

 white bars, outside which there are dark spots and dots and before the base of the tail sometimes traces of 

 red. — From Turkestan and Persia to Afghanistan, Baluchistan and Kashmir, on dry slopes and steppes. 

 According to Lang it occurs up to 1 1 000 ft., and on hot days flutters in numbers about a gi-ey-leaved tliorn- 

 bush (DE Niceville). 



myrtale. T. myrtalc Klug. A small and very little known butterfly, not larger than rhipmms, above uniformly 



dark grey with a black margin and a small, indistinct, yellow spot at the anal angle. The underside hkewise 

 dark grey, paler distally, with quite obsolescent traces of a white transverse line and of some yellowish red 

 spots in the anal area of the hindwing. The tail is absent or vestigial. — So far only known from the 

 Lebanon , where it is said by Maey de la Beche to be locally plentiful in ^lay and June at a height 

 of 4—6000 ft. 



rhymmis. T. rhymnus AV. (73 f). Tailless, the wings brown above and beneath. The underside irroraten with 



numerous white short dashes, which are parth' placed in rows and partly irregularlj' dispersed. — In South 

 Russia, South Siberia to the Altai, in May and June, on steppes. 



sinensis. T. sinensis Alph. (73 e, f). Above black-brown, unicolorous. Beneath grey-brown, with strongly 



spotted fringes, and before the outer margui a I'ow of whitish-edged l)lack ocelli, at the proximal side of 

 which there is a curved line composed of white lunules, some additional whitish dashes and dots being 



pretiosa. dispersed over both wings, particularly the hindwing. In the Sinin Mts. — The form pretiosa Stgr. (73 f), from 

 the Tian-shan in Turkestan, has the fringes more uniformly chequered on both sides, and the white markings 

 of the underside more seriate. At Margelan and in the Namangan Mts., not rare. 



tengstroemi. T. tengstroemi Ersch. (73 fj. Above uniformly black-brown, the base of both wings somewhat 



paler. The underside similar to that of ledereri, bearing as in that species a row of reddish yellow sub- 

 marginal spots, each accompanied on the in- and outside by a black dot. Easily distinguished by the 

 rounded anal portion of the hindwing bearing a hardly visible tuft of hairs instead of a tail. Moreover, 

 the white discal halfmoons on the hindwing beneath do not form a continuous row, but are more irregularly 



carbonaria. placed. In the plains of Anterior and Central Asia; Ferghana; Saisan. — carbonaria Gr.-Grsh, (73 f), from the 



Pamirs, is deeper black above with the base but little paler, the underside ])eing more unicolorous. This is the 



Central Asiatic mountain-form, which flies at altitudes of from 3 to 9000 ft., while the nymotypical form 



davidi. is more restricted to the steppes of the plains. — davidi Oherth. (73 f ) has on the underside broader and 



