butterflies of the French Pyrenees. 393 



Var. vel. sp. pyrenaica, Bdv. Cent. Pyr., N. 

 Spain (Picos d'Europa). (Orbituhis and pyre- 

 naica, " species valde distincta," fide Ober- 

 thiir). ?= Dardanus, Frr., As. min. alp. 

 Armenia ; (Sierra Nevada, Andalusia, {fide 

 Stgr.). 

 Var. vel. sp. Leela, de Nice., J. A. S. B., 1883, 

 p. 66, t. 1, fig. 3, 3a. Ladak. 

 L. Ellisi, Marsh., from the N.W. Himalaya, is 

 an allied species nearest to Leela. Pheretiades, 

 Ev., from the Ala tan and mountains of Kuldja 

 seems distinct. Pheres, Stgr., Pheretulus, Stgr., 

 and Pherulus, Stgr., from the mountains of 

 Khokand, seem, as far as I can judge from the 

 few specimens I have, to be all the same species ; 

 but, in any case, the name of Pheres has been 

 used by Boisduval for a Californian Lyccena. The 

 Colorado form, rustica, Edw., is so near our 

 alpine one that I can hardly separate it, but that 

 found in California and Washington territory, 

 tehama, Reakirt, is much more distinct, pale below, 

 and much spotted with black. Edwards considers 

 it distinct from orbitulus. The type of Franklini 

 came from Arctic America, and is said by Oberthur 

 to be almost identical with aquilo. Whether the 

 Labrador form is identical with Franklini or not I 

 cannot say, but it is very distinct on the under 

 side from the form found on the fells of Lapland, 

 which I take to be aquilo, Bdv. Wosnesenskyii 

 I know only from the figure. Agagrus, Christoph, 

 from the Alps of North Persia, is nearly allied to 

 orbituhis, and may perhaps be considered only as 

 a well-marked local form ; but I have seen it only 

 from one locality, and do not know whether it 

 varies. The distribution of the forms of this 

 species at many isolated points in the high alpine 

 and arctic regions of the Pahiearctic and Nearctic 

 region is very curious, and worthy of a more 

 detailed study. 



38. L. eros. E. C. 4— 5000 ft.— Bare in the Pyrenees, 



where I have not taken it myself. 

 Var. ? , caerulescens, Ob. C. 



39. L. icarus. E. C. To 5000 ft. 



40. L. eumedon. E. C. 4— 6000 ft. July. 



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