150 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Var. jordisi is described at great length by Eiihl in the 

 * Palaearktischen GrossschmetterUnge,' p. 413 (1893) ; the 

 description is, in fact, so long that it is impossible to quote it 

 in extenso in the original German, and we must content ourselves 

 with a somewhat condensed paraphrase, thrown for the sake of 

 convenience into the same form as the descriptions of the species 

 and varieties previously given. 



Up. s. : Ground colour much brighter red with strongly marked 

 black nervures somewhat invaded in the central part of the f. w. by 

 the ground colour ; f. w. : border broad and of a deep black, all other 

 markings wanting except a trace of the (?) inner subterminal on the 

 inner margin, the outlines of the stigma and the basal lines, these 

 giving the appearance of three spots of the ground colour surrounded 

 with black. The up. s. of the female is lighter, with a light apical spot 

 within the border, and the black nervures are nowhere overspread 

 with the ground colour. (This light apical spot is here called by 

 Eiihl " characteristic oi iMrthenie," but I have already, vol. xli. p. 223, 

 quoted him as agreeing with me that it is sometimes present in 

 other species, nor is it always to be found in partlienie female.) 



Up. s. h. w. : border very broad and black including outer line ; 

 basal suffusion reaching to inner line, this leaving only one row of 

 spots of the ground colour ; basal spot small. 



Un. s. f. w. : a broad black streak along the inner margin ; only 

 one of the usual lines (? the elbowed line) is present, and consists 

 of clear black spots and streaks. In one female the black streak 

 along the inner margin is nearly obsolete, and nearly all the spots 

 of the elbowed line are radiate ; there is also part of a row of yellow 

 lunules along the outer margin, edged internally with black. 



Un. s. h. w. : the usual banded arrangement nearly absent, the 

 basal portion being red, the outer portion lemon-yellow, the two 

 being separated by a bowed and indented black line ; there are also 

 four basal black spots ; the inner edging line of the border is 

 absent as in asteria, the outer being blacker and more sharply 

 defined than usual ; the black edging of the lunules of the terminal 

 band is less arched but blacker than in the type ; the outer band repre- 

 sented by a row of bright red spots partly round and partly 

 triangular. In the female the inner edging line of the border shows 

 in a rudimentary condition, the lunular part of the border being 

 more distinct than in the male ; the red spots of the outer band are 

 reduced to centres surrounded by pale orange-red; the black basal 

 spots very large and the dividing black line broader than in the 

 male. 



It will be seen that this form of partlienie corresponds with 

 the corythalia form of athalia, but with the un. s. f. w. of eos, 

 and it might well have been doubted whether it were not in fact 

 this species, but variants of this form of yarthenie are figured by 

 Oberthiir in the ' Bulletin de la Soci^te Entomologique Fran- 

 gaise ' for 1900, pp. 276-277, and if there is one author whose 

 distinctions between athalia and parthenie are absolutely to be 

 trusted it is Oberthiir, as is shown by his paper in the ' Entomo- 



