38 BUTTERFLIES OF THE RIVIERA 



the Route de Venanson, at Saint-Martin- Vesubie. The 

 coast specimens are usually finer than those from the 

 alps. It is probably this form which is described by 

 D r Staudinger as ab. Caerulea. This aberration is not 

 very abundant. Intermediate forms are not rare. 



TIMES OF APPEARANCE. July and August. 



HABITAT. Madone des Fenetres, near Saint-Martin - 

 Vesubie, about a quarter of a mile below the hotel. 



LARVA. On Geranium pratense (Blue Meadow 

 Crane's-bill) and G. purpureum (Crimson Crane's- 

 bill)., Hofm. 



Li. Amanda. 



TIMES OF APPEARANCE. June to August. 



HABITAT. Saint-Martin-Vesubie, on the Chemin 

 de Venanson, and at the Cascade of the Borreon, 

 near Saint-Martin. 



LARVA. Unknown. 



OBSERVATION. Not very common. 



L. Esclieri. 



TIMES OF APPEARANCE. May to July. 



HABITAT. Nice, in the Vallon Obscur, c., where 

 it is riot uncommon ; also Saint-Martin-Vesubie, on 

 the Chemin de Venanson. 



The female is rather less common. 



I have a $ of this species, whose wings, front and 

 hind, are suffused with blue ; I have seen no mention 

 of it in the books, though it is well known that all the 

 females of the Lyeaenidae are subject to dimorphism. 



