LEPIDOPTERA OF LA SAINTE BAUME, VAR, S. FRANCE. 19 
S. hermione came to hand with wings hardly dry on June 30th. 
Of the Argynnids Brenthis hecate was fairly common and widely 
distributed. B. dia passing, but had been remarkably fine and 
very common. Of the big brotherhood, Argynnis niobe var. eris, 
was the first to be seen, and not common; next A. adippe and 
A. aglaia; and, lastly, Dryas paphia; these would all be 
doubtless common later. 
The little Canonympha dorus was very local, and never 
abundant; C. arcania not in great numbers. C. pamphilus 
gave me several nice forms, two var. bipupillata, one fine ab. 
thersites, and, lastly, a beautiful female, in which the round 
spot towards the apex of fore wings is of enormous size, with 
white pupil on under side 3 mm. in diameter, or the exact size 
of the letter O in Queen Victoria’s name on a florin of 1890. 
This aberration I have decided to call glawcopis, until I hear 
that it has been named before. 
Before leaving on July 5th I had an hour or so in the 
immediate neighbourhood of our hotel, and was lucky enough 
to take a very perfect aberration of Melitea didyma (female). 
These things are difficult to describe, and one is very conscious 
of M. Oberthur’s reasons for demanding a figure of all named 
varieties. The striking feature of this specimen is the wide 
expanse of clear colour on the disk of all wings, devoid of the 
usual black markings. It is yellow of the lightest occidentalis 
forms, and the fore wings have no central markings whatever 
between the single sharp zigzag black edge of the fringe and 
two basal spots, which are open rings; above these, next the 
costa, are two open marks which form the figure 30. The 
lower wings are of the same ground colour as the upper, and all 
black marks are gathered together in a central band formed by 
wedge-shaped dashes. On the under side the primaries, which 
are of a darker reddish tint than on the upper side, are 
traversed by a central band of seven black dashes. The 
secondaries, of a pale cold yellow, have the central light band 
strongly defined between rows of large black spots, after which 
the wing is self-coloured up to the black line before the fringe. I 
have given to this, in honour of the locality, the name ab. 
magdalena. The following is the complete list of butterflies 
from Sainte Baume district noted by me, seventy-four in all, 
exclusive of varieties. 
PaPILIoNIDH.—Papilio podalirius, P. machaon. 
PIERIDE.—Aporia crategi ; Pieris brassicae, P. rape, P. napi ; 
Euchloe belia var. ausonia (one); Leptidia sinapis, scarce ; 
Colias edusa and var. pallida (one), C. hyale, scarce; Gonepteryx 
rhammi, G. cleopatra. 
NympHALIDE. — Limenitis camilla; Pyrameis atalanta, P. 
cardui; Hugonia polychloros; Polygonia c-album; Huvanessa 
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