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and with the former by the presence of a small amount of violet scaling^ 

 along the costal margin. The specimen which bears the label of Linnsens is- 

 an aberrant one : on the underside of both fore and hind wings the two 

 series of ocelli which precede the snbmarginal orange band are confluent, 

 and give rise to a single series of wedge-shaped streaks, as in the specimen 

 figured by Gerhard under the name of ab. conjl.uens. 



The fact that we have the Linnean type of this species under our eyes is- 

 very interesting, because it had been held in doubt by many entomologists 

 whether the species which is generally known as kippotJwe was really that 

 which Linufcus intended to describe, and whether it was not more likely to 

 be C. dispar. The point of this controversy is now evidently settled. 



An error of secondary importance, which, however, I think it would be- 

 well to rectify once for all, as in the case of other species, is that regarding; 

 the nimotypical race. The Central-European one has always been regarded 

 as such, and, accordingly, euri/hia from the higher Alpine ranges and stieberi- 

 from Lapland had been described as varietal forms. On the contrary, we 

 now know that Linnreus's types are identical with the latter and nearer allies- 

 to the former than to what w^as considered the nimotypical form ; so that 

 the most beautiful and highly specialised race of luppotlioe in which both 

 sexes are vividly coloured — the male being of a very bright reddish copper 

 on upperslde v,'ith a strong purple gloss, and presenting a distinct orange sub- 

 marginal band on underside — has to this day remained unnamed. I propo>e 

 the name of mm^s, taking as typical of it the race which flies in the Pyrenees 

 and which is quite similar also to the German one (Cassel, Berlin, etc.) ; tO' 

 my knowledge it is furthest removed from euryVia. 



*CHRYSOPHANrs PHL.EAS [17(jlj. No Linnean specimen in existence 

 now. 



Lampides bceticus [1767]. liinnpeus gives Barbaria as habitat for this- 

 species, but it was not represented in his collection. 



*LYC^]srA ARGUS [1758]. Two male specimens of Linnean origin, one of 

 which is labelled. They are large, brightly coloured, and very white on. 

 underside, and belong to the species to which Staudinger and most previous 

 authors rightly attribute this name. 



Few species huve been the object of longer debates amongst naturalists 

 than this and the following. These are the only Linnean types, strange as 

 it may seem, which any entomologist has referred to in a direct way, to 

 settle definitely the controversies caused by the insufficiency of original 

 descriptions. Tutt, in fact, examined the two insects, and placed his con- 

 clusions before the Entomological Society of London in the meeting of the 

 17th of March, 1909. I can in this case fully agree with them. As regards- 



