210 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker’s Notes on 
Canigou (in this locality I took last summer the bluest form 
of orbitulus that I have yet seen, and all were of the same 
colour); |the brown borders are decidedly broader and 
are very indefinite; the black spot closing the cell in the 
primaries is much smaller, and below there is an almost 
complete obsoletion of the black pupilled spots of the 
secondaries. I have no doubt that this is merely a variety 
of Eversmann’s insect, as the genitalia agree entirely with 
it, and the serrations at the apex of the clasp are precisely 
as in that species. 
Groum-Grshimailo states (J. c.) that he has placed all the 
pheretiades from the Pamir in his collection under the name 
pheretulus, and presumably the same has been done in the 
collection of the Grand Duke Nicolas, but I have no doubt 
whatever that is a mistake. I have not seen this species 
from the Pamir at all, whilst pherecydes is evidently common 
in that region; the specimens belonging to the former 
collection are in the British Museum, and those from the 
Pamir are certainly not pheretu us but pherecydes. 
v. tekessana, Alph. 
Were it not for the fact that Alphéraky is much too 
careful a worker to have forgotten Staudinger’s description 
of pheretulus, | should have thought that this had taken 
place; he only compares it with pheretiades, and I have 
no doubt whatever that it is pheretulus. Seven specimens 
were taken, six males and a female, on the river Tékesse 
in the Thian-Chan. 
Plebeius dis, Gr. Gr. 
The type of this species is now in the British Museum; 
it is a female not a male, as stated in Staudinger’s “Catalog,” 
and is entirely blackish-brown with a prominent white 
spot closing the cellin each wing. Below at the first glance 
it has a certain resemblance to pheretes, Hb., but on further 
examination it is soon seen that it occupies an intermediate 
position between the species we have been considering and 
Hiibner’s insect; the spots below are white without the 
black pupils, and occupy positions combining somewhat 
the characteristics of the two insects just named. 
It is a thoroughly good species described originally from 
Amdo south-east of the Kuku-noor, but it has also recently 
been received from Thibet; there are at present, I believe, 
only four specimens known. 
