1886.] MR. H. J. ELWES ON THE GENUS PARNASSIUS. 10 



SECT. IV. 



12. DELPHius, Ev Mont. Tarbagatai, Altai, &c. 



Var. ? a. staudingeri, Bang-Haaa. . . . Mout. Bokhara, Khokand, &c. 



13. STOLiczKANus, Feld Prov. Lahoul, N.W, Himalaya, La- 



dak. 

 8ECT. V. 



14. HARDWiCKEi, Gray Himalaya GOOO-14,000 ped. alt. 



Ab et var. 5 vix nom. conserv. Prov. Ladak. 



. charino, Gray (obscurior). 



SECT. VI. 



■ 15. CHARLTONius, Gray Prov. Lahoul, N.W. Himalaya. 



Prov. Ladak, supra 11,000 ped. alt. 

 SECT. VII 



16. iMPEEATOB, Oberthlir Ta-tsieu-lo, Tibet or. 



SECT. vin. 



17. TEXEDius, Ev Sib. cent, mer., prov. Amur sup. 



SECT. IX. 



18. MNEMOSYNE, Limi , Europe (excl. reg. pol. et Anglia), 



Asia occ. et cent. 



Var. a. ? uubilosus, Chr Armenia, Persia bor. 



Var. vel transitus ad stuhbendorfi. Prov. Amur sup. 



Var. b. ? an bona sp. sttMendorfii, Prov. Amer. sup. et inf. 



Men. 



Var. c. vel trans, ad ^^rtrnZifi' Corea. 



19. GLACiALis, Butl Jax^an. 



citrinarius, Motsch. 



20. EVERSMANNi, M6n Prov. Transbaikal, Aumr sup., 



Prov. Alaska. 



a. Var. ? felderi, Brem Prov. Amur cent. 



b. Var. ? thor, H. Edw Yukon River, N.W. America. 



21. CLODius, Men Mont, et litt., N.W. America. 



a. Var. ? menetriesi, H. Edw Mont. Sierra Nevada, California. 



22. CLARIU.S, Ev Mont. Altai ?, Tarbagatai. 



23. NORDMANNi Mont. S.W. Caucasus, Daghestan. 



The two species marked f "re only provisionally placed in tlie 

 sections of the genus, as the female pouches are unknown. Tlie 

 varieties marked with a 1 are those which do not seem from my 

 present knowledge to he sufficiently well marked to be always recog- 

 nizable. 



Parnassius APOLLO, Limi. 



This is the best known and one of the most widely distributed 

 species of the genus, and is found in almost all the mountain districts 

 of Central and Southern Europe, from about 1000 up to nearly 6000 

 feet in the Alps, and in many parts of Northern and Eastern Europe 

 at quite low elevations ; in the Caucasus according to Wagner up to 

 8000-9000 feet, in Southern Sweden and Norway, in Finland close to 

 the sea-coast, in the hilly sandy pine-forests of the Lower Ural and 

 Central Russia, in the higher mountains of Spain, Greece, and Asia 

 Minor, and in some of the mountain-ranges of Northern Turkestan 

 and the Altai, though its distribution in Asia is not yet perfectly 

 known. 



In some parts of Germany it has become extinct of late years, 



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