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“ The females differ from the spring form, on the upper 
side, by the greater range of the orange lunules, which 
extend all round both wings, though the apical two or three 
ai-e often indistinct by being pale or small, but even so are 
almost always present. The discoidal spot is small and usually 
very obscure, in two (out of twenty-three) instances only, with 
a trace of white border. Beneath, the surface is on the whole 
darker than in the first brood, the chevron line of the fore-wings 
is a black band, and in most specimens the orange spots form a 
complete series round both wings, the apical spot only being 
usually doubtful. 
“ In both sexes the frequency of extra spots, and spots length¬ 
ened, or coalesced, is rather greater than in the spring brood.” 
Mr. J. W . Tutt who exhibited long series of the spring 
brood of the meridionalis form from Nimes, Hyeres, Ste. Maxime 
Pardigon, Draguignan, etc., said the Riviei’an meridionalis 
race of Agriades coridon was exceedingly interesting, as pro¬ 
viding the only case recorded where the species is certainly 
double-brooded. This race appeal’s to extend from Kimes 
almost to Genoa, perhaps beyond. Its superficial characters 
are sufficiently striking to give it racial value, and consist 
more particularly in the obvious features of (1) a peculiar 
dull silvery-blue ground-colour on the upper-side of the 
(2) a very wide dark outer-marginal band in the (3) a 
strong tendency to the development of oi’ange lunules on the 
upper-side of the marginal spots on the hind-wings also in 
the S S- The upper-side of the $ ? is usually without any 
blue scaling and deep fuscous brown in colour. The under¬ 
side of the c? is variable, extending from whitish to dark 
grey and hence resembling that of A. thetis, whilst that of the 
$ is very dark grey-brown, the ocellated spots in both sexes 
being particularly large and Avell-developed, and the mai'ginal 
lunules of the fore-wings strongly blackish-grey. 
This meridionalis race has been divided into two forms, chieffy 
chai’acterised by the intensity of the ground colour of the under¬ 
side, especially in the The form with pale under-side has 
been described as rezniceki by Herr Bartel, his typical specimens 
having come from Bapallo (Italian Riviera), June Ist-lOth, 
1901, etc. 
PROC. ENT. .SOC. LOND., IV. 1910. D 
