NYMPHALIDyE 61 



I have seen no accounts of its capture. 

 LARVA. Undescribed. 



M, Athalia. 



TIMES OF APPEARANCE. May to August. 



HABITAT. Common everywhere. 



LARVA. On Plantago and Melampyrum sylva- 

 tieum, from May to September. 



VARIETIES. The varieties of this species, perhaps, 

 above all other Melitaeae, are the most remarkable. 



Individuals occasionally occur, in which several of 

 the central rows of deep fulvous or black spots on the 

 f.-w., are confluent. 



This deviation from the common form, gives the 

 insect the appearance of having a thick black band in 

 the middle of the wings. 



Another variety, which most approaches the variety 

 Nacarina, has the f.-w. almost entirely suffused with 

 dark fulvous. 



There are various other aberrations from the typical 

 form, which, however, it would be unprofitable to 

 enumerate. 



ab. Corythalia, the f.-w. are more broadly fulvous 

 than in the type. 



ab. Navarina has the wings almost entirely black 

 above, with hind marginal fulvous band. 



M. F*artlieiiie. 



TIMES OF APPEARANCE. June and August. 



HABITAT. Saint-Martin- Vesubie, at the Col de 

 Saint-Martin ; also on the Balrne, and is also found at 

 the Madone, Berthemont and Thorenc. A sub-alpine 

 species. 



