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Mr. H. J. Elwes on the 



catalogue is based, is at any rate for the Palsearctic species 

 unrivalled, we cannot do better than accept his arrange- 

 ment as far as it goes. After carefully studying the very 

 fine collection of Messrs. Godman and Salvin, which con- 

 tains good series of almost all the species, together with 

 that in the British Museum, which is rich in specimens 

 from the arctic regions ; as well as the fine though not 

 numerous examples in the Hewitson collection, I have 

 arranged them in the following order, which I think will be 

 found by an unprejudiced examiner to indicate pretty fairly 

 the principal points of distinction, and to show the geo- 

 graphical distribution accurately. 



GROUP I. — FEMALE SEX ONLY SPOTTED ON THE DARK BORDER OF 

 THE FOREWING. 



Sab-species 

 or local races 

 in which the 



males 

 are usually 

 brighter or 

 darker orange 

 than in 

 cdusa, this 

 character in- 

 creasing in in- 

 tensity as we 

 go eastward. 



S. African sub- 

 species, very 

 near Edusa. 



Name of Species and Vars. 

 C, Udiisajliinn. . . , 



C. Myrmidone, Esp. 



C. Tliisoa, Men. 



C. Feildii, Men. . 

 (?) = eogene, Feld. 



C, aurorhia, H.S. 

 var. Libanotica . 

 var. Heldreichi . 



C. aurora, Esp. 



C elecira, L. 



Geogi-aphical Distribution. 

 Central and Southern 

 Europe, N. Africa, and 

 Syria. 



Central, Eastern, and 

 Soiithern Germany, S. 

 Russia, and Turkey. 



Mountains of N. Persia. 



Bhotan to Kashmir and 

 Yarkand. 



Mountains of Armenia. 

 Mountains of Syria, North 



Persia and Asia Minor. 

 Mountains of Greece. 



S.-E. Siberia and Amur 

 region. 



Cape of Good HopOj 

 JSatal, Transvaal, 



Dwarf arctic 

 sub-species 



a Boot/lit, Curt. 



meadii, W. 



var. 

 Edw. 



C. hecia, Lef. 



var. glacialis, 

 Lachlan. 



Mac. 



C. chrystheme, Esp. 

 (?) = Vilinensis, Men, 

 var. Eurytheme, VAX. 

 var. Keeicaydim, W. H 

 Edw 



Boothia-felis. 

 f Mountains of Colorado, 

 ( 10,000 feet elevation. 



Greenland, Lapland. 

 \ Smith Sound. 



S.-E. Europe, Asia Minor, 



S.-E. Siberia. 

 UnitedStates& Territories 



California. 



