on the genus Colias. 



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and that the various forms found in Asia must for 

 the present be treated as at best local and not hxed 

 varieties. 



PS —I must add that, after writing this, I observed 

 th^t SchilZin Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1873, p. 175 notices 

 that Erate and Hyale, to use his own expression, con- 

 gtmSlte ''and t'hat'yellow ^pot-like markmgs are not 

 Infrequently observed on the band of Erate male. 



fiunnosine my views to be correct, the synonymy and 

 geogra'pS 7stribution of the forms would be as 

 follows : — 



L. Hyale, Linn. Western, Central, and Southern Europe ; 

 Asia Minor ; Algeria. ^ 



Hybrid ? and var. Sareptensis^igv-, Cat Lep. Eur 

 1871, p. 5, in parte ; ?= Nenene, Fisch. (m pait), 

 AlpheiW, Hor. Soc. Ent. Boss., xvi., p. 365. 

 Southern Russia; Caucasus ; Persia. 

 Var Erate Esp. South Russia ; Western and South- 

 We ern Asia ; in Himalaya and Eastern Asia as 

 rabeiration'only. Syn. la^Uta, Moore, Proc. 



^ J 7 1840 ; Helictha, Led., Verb. Zool. Bot. Ges., 

 \( ro 33 1853. South Russia ; Kuldja. 



Forma o^-ien';fis Neriene, Fisch. de Wald., En . Russ., 

 W t ii 3 4 1822; S ah. etYS^r. pallida, bigT., 

 Cat Lep Eur., p. 3 1861. Afghanistan ; Central 

 Safnimala^a; China; Japan; Amui^land. 



?^^r %oliograplms,UoiBch., Et. Ent., ix., p. 29, I860. 



sJdtm L'Orza, Lep-/ap., P- lb, 1869^ Japan 

 suhanrdta, Butl., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., sei. 5, vn., 

 p. 138, 1881. Japan. 



f ri^a^n-ie^;?.' l«St. Hon.. iii., p. 395 



(1859). Nilghiri mts., S. India. 



Colias Al2)lieraUi, Stgr. 

 Stgr., Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1882, p. 164. 

 Of this species I can say nothing more than is said by 



