150 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Var. jordisi is described at great length by Ruhl in the 
‘Palaearktischen Grossschmetterlinge,’ p. 413 (1893); the 
description is, in fact, so long that it is impossible to quote it 
in extenso in the original German, and we must content ourselves 
with a somewhat condensed paraphrase, thrown for the sake of 
convenience into the same form as the descriptions of the species 
and varieties previously given. 
Up. s.: Ground colour much brighter red with strongly marked 
black nervures somewhat invaded in the central part of the f. w. by 
the ground colour; f. w.: border broad and of a deep black, all other 
markings wanting except a trace of the (?) inner subterminal on the 
inner margin, the outlines of the stigma and the basal lines, these 
giving the appearance of three spots of the ground colour surrounded 
with black. The up. s. of the female is lighter, with a light apical spot 
within the border, and the black nervures are nowhere overspread 
with the ground colour. (This light apical spot is here called by 
Riihl “ characteristic of parthenie,” but I have already, vol. xli. p. 223, 
quoted him as agreeing with me that it is sometimes present in 
other species, nor is it always to be found in parthente female.) 
Up. s. h. w.: border very broad and black including outer line ; 
basal suffusion reaching to inner line, this leaving only one row of 
spots of the ground colour ; basal spot small. 
Un. s. f. w.: a broad black streak along the inner margin; only 
one of the usual lines (? the elbowed line) is present, and consists 
of clear black spots and streaks. In one female the black streak 
along the inner margin is nearly obsolete, and nearly all the spots 
of the elbowed line are radiate; there is also part of a row of yellow 
lunules along the outer margin, edged internally with black. 
Un. s. h. w.: the usual banded arrangement nearly absent, the 
basal portion being red, the outer portion lemon-yellow, the two 
being separated by a bowed and indented black line; there are also 
four basal black spots; the inner edging line of the border is 
absent as in asterva, the outer being blacker and more sharply 
defined than usual; the black edging of the lunules of the terminal 
band is less arched but blacker than in the type ; the outer band repre- 
sented by a row of bright red spots partly round and partly 
triangular. In the female the inner edging line of the border shows 
in a rudimentary condition, the lunular part of the border being 
more distinct than in the male; the red spots of the outer band are 
reduced to centres surrounded by pale orange-red; the black basal 
spots very large and the dividing black line broader than in the 
male. 
It will be seen that this form of parthenie corresponds with 
the corythalia form of athalia, but with the un. s. f. w. of eos, 
and it might well have been doubted whether it were not in fact 
this species, but variants of this form of parthenie are figured by 
Oberthur in the ‘ Bulletin de la Société Entomologique Fran- 
caise’ for 1900, pp. 276-277, and if there is one author whose 
distinctions between athalia and parthenie are absolutely to be 
trusted it is Oberthur, as is shown by his paper in the ‘ Entomo- 
