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eminently typical. The specimens of var. cceridea are not so 

 brightly blue as many English examples of this form of the 

 female, and I am given to understand that in Switzerland the 

 females do not often assume the male colour beyond a basal 

 suffusion. 



Mr. Gervase Mathewhas been good enough to show me examples 

 of icariis from Vigo, North-West Spain ; and Turkey. The three 

 males from the Spanish locality are of the average size, but are 

 rather darker in tint ; the hind- marginal borders are strongly 

 defined, and in one specimen there are indications of dark spots 

 on the margins of hind wings ; on the under surface tlie colour 

 is more like that of typical female than male. The series from 

 Turkey comprises four males and one female. In colour these 

 males are somewhat different to any I have seen from other 

 parts. The tint may be described as pale blue-mauve, but in one 

 example there is a decided shade of the bellargus colour on the 

 inferior wings. This specimen has the hind margins of fore wings 

 more rounded than usual. Another example, the smallest of the 

 series, has dark spots on the margins of hind wings. Female of 

 the normal type. 



Var. celina. Const., from Algeria, is by some entomologists 

 considered a distinct species. I have only a pair of this insect. 

 Male. — Under the average size, of the bellargus colour, with a 

 shade of mauve, but in certain lights there is a suspicion of the eros 

 tint; marginal borders are black, and a little broader than in typical 

 icanis ; tlie nervures black on the hind margins of all the wings, 

 and there are two or three small black spots on margins of hind 

 wings. Fringes white. Female. — Brown, tinged with blue at 

 the bases of the wings ; discoidal spot on fore wings large and 

 black ; bright orange spots on the hind margins of all wings. 

 Under side. — All the markings quite like those of icarus, but 

 bright and distinct ; and the female has the extra ocellus on 

 inner margins of hind wings. 



Var. persica, Bienart. I have not seen an example of this 

 Persian form, but Dr. Lang says* it "has the spots on the under 

 side very small or absent." 



Distribution. — L. icarus is found throughout Europe, Northern 

 and Western Asia as far as the Himalayas, and North Africa. 



* ' Hhdpalucei-a Eurojiffi,' p. li'-i. 



