202 Mr. H. J. Elwes on tne 



91. E. tyndarus, var. 



We did not find tliis until tlie first week in July, when 

 the males appeared at about 5000 feet in grassy places in 

 the forest, but we got no females; whether it occurs at a 

 higher elevation later in the season or not I canuot say, 

 but Mis. XichoU got it in Bosnia at from 4000 — 5000 feet 

 in the end of July, and found both typical specimens and 

 a form which she called halcanica within 1000 feet of each 

 other. Rilo specimens are considerably larger than Alpine, 

 Pyrenean, or Asiatic examples, but not so large as var. 

 ottomana from Greece and Asia Minor, and seem to form 

 a transition to those varieties. On the underside they are 

 like Bosnian specimens, with the bands indistinct, and 

 often have on the hind-wing below a mixture of fulvous 

 colour with the grey, and the ocelli well marked. I am 

 not aware that any form of tyndarus has yet been taken 

 in the Balkan Mountains. 



92. U. gorgone, var. rliodopcnsis, n. var. 



lu the upper Maritza Valley on July 11th Mrs. Nicholl 

 took the first specimen of what we supposed to be a new 

 Erchia, and we afterwards found four more males in the 

 Airandere Valley above Kostenetz. In both places they 

 frequented wet grassy spots at about 7000 feet, afhong the 

 dense scrub of Pinus piomilio, which grows more luxuriantly 

 in the Rilo Dagh at 6000—8000 feet than in the Alps of 

 Austria, and often forms an impenetrable thicket. Its habits 

 and manner of flight were so different from that of gorge 

 that we could not believe it to be a form of that species, and 

 only after comparison of the clasps with those of gorgone I 

 am obliged to consider it as a local form of that species. 

 In size and appearance the males resemble tiiose of gorgone 

 from the Pyrenees more than gorge, but though we did 

 everything in our power to get a series, the continued bad 

 weather made it impossible, and without knowing the 

 female I cannot say whether it has good claims to specific 

 distinction. 



Since writing the above Dr. Staudinger has lent me a 

 pair of the same species taken by Haberhauer in Rilo 

 Dagh (though sent as from the Balkans) many years ago. 

 The male is exactly like ours; the female resembles that 



