LEPIDOPTERA OF LA SAINTE BAUMB, VAR, S. FRANCE. 19 



S. hermio7ie came to hand with wings hardly dry on June 30th. 

 Of the Argynnids Brenthis hecate was fairly common and widely 

 distributed. B. dia passing, but had been remarkably fine and 

 very common. Of the big brotherhood, Argynnis niohe var. eris, 

 was the first to be seen, and not common ; next A. aclip'pe and 

 A. aglaia; and, lastly, Dry as paphia ; these would all be 

 doubtless common later. 



The little Coenonympha dorus was very local, and never 

 abundant; C. arcania not in great numbers. C. pamphilus 

 gave me several nice forms, two var. hipupillata, one fine ab. 

 thersites, and, lastly, a beautiful female, in which the round 

 spot towards the apex of fore wings is of enormous size, with 

 white pupil on under side 3 mm. in diameter, or the exact size 

 of the letter in Queen Victoria's name on a florin of 1890. 

 This aberration I have decided to call glaucopis, until I hear 

 that it has been named before. 



Before leaving on July 5th I had an hour or so in the 

 immediate neighbourhood of our hotel, and was lucky enough 

 to take a very perfect aberration of Melitcea didyma (female). 

 These things are difficult to describe, and one is very conscious 

 of M. Oberthiir's reasons for demanding a figure of all named 

 varieties. The striking feature of this specimen is the wide 

 expanse of clear colour on the disk of all wings, devoid of the 

 usual black markings. It is yellow of the lightest occidentalis 

 forms, and the fore wings have no central markings whatever 

 between the single sharp zigzag black edge of the fringe and 

 two basal spots, which are open rings ; above these, next the 

 costa, are two open marks which form the figure 30. The 

 lower wings are of the same ground colour as the upper, and all 

 black marks are gathered together in a central band formed by 

 wedge-shaped dashes. On the under side the primaries, which 

 are of a darker reddish tint than on the upper side, are 

 traversed by a central band of seven black dashes. The 

 secondaries, of a pale cold yellow, have the central light band 

 strongly defined between rows of large black spots, after which 

 the wing is self-coloured up to the black line before the fringe. I 

 have given to this, in honour of the locality, the name ab. 

 magdalena. The following is the complete list of butterflies 

 from Sainte Baume district noted by me, seventy-four in all, 

 exclusive of varieties. 



Papilionid^. — Papilio podalirius, P. machaon. 



PiERiD^. — Aporia cratcegi ; Pieris brassiae, P. rapes, P. napi ; 

 Euchloe belia var. ausonia (one) ; Leptidia sinapis, scarce ; 

 Colias edusa smd war. pallida (one), C. hyale, scarce; Gonepteryx 

 rhamni, G. cleopatra. 



Nymphalid^. — Limenitis Camilla; Pyrameis atalanta, P. 

 cardui ; Eugonia polychloros ; Polygonia c-album ; Euvanessa 



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