SC1ENCE-G(>SSIP. 



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1UTTTKKFUKS OF THE PALAEARCTIC REGION. 



By IIenhy Chahi.es Lang, M.D., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Lond., F.E.S. 



(Continued from page ill'.) 



ANTHO CHARTS {continued). 



1842 



5. A. charlonia Donz. Ann. Soc. Franc. 

 ]>. 197, pi. 8, 1. 

 25- 29 mm. 



Ground colour of all the wings yellowish-white, 

 h.w. sometimes more distinctly yellow. General 

 character of pattern much resembles ' that of 

 .1. tagis, but the discal spot f.w. is larger in pro- 

 portion, and there are no costal dots. U.S. f.w. 

 white, yellow at base and along internal half of 

 costa, discal spot black and distinct. Apices dull 

 yellowish-olive. H.w. dull olive, with hardly any 

 markings except an indistinct white central spot. 



.1. charlonia. 



Hab. Algeria, Teneriffe (figured by Mrs. Holt 

 White), Province of Kuliab, S. Turkestan. On the 

 high plateau of Balachan. III. — VI. 



a. var. penia . Frr. 574, 4. 1852. A pale form 

 of the first generation, with discal spot of f.w. 

 larger. Colour of under side greyer. Hab. Amasia, 

 Antioch. 



G. A. levaillantii Luc. Ann. Soc. Fr. 1847, 

 p. 1. Ckarloniae 1 var. Stg. Cat. 1871, p. 4. 



25—2!) mm. 



hesembles the last in pattern of wings, but 

 discal spot f.w. is narrower and less quadrate) 

 marginal fringe pink. The ground colour of all the 

 wings is uniform sulphur-yellow. U.S. h.w. with 

 more light spots than in .1. cliarlonia. Wings 

 narrower than in the latter, f.w. more pointed. 



Hab. Biskra, etc. (Algeria), Hainan (Syria). 

 II.— V. 



This form is so constant and so distinct from 

 chiirlonla that I feel bound to admit it as a distinct 

 species. 



7. A. inesopotamica. Stgr. R. H. p. 136. 



2!) — 10 mm. 



Larger than the last, and with apices of f.w. less 

 pointed. Colouration of upper side much as in the 

 last. F.w. apices less spotted with yellow, in some 

 specimens hardly at all; discal spot triangular. 

 U.S. apices f.w. and general colour of h.w. light 



U) This scries of articles 011 Butterflies of the Palaearctic 

 Region commenced in SCIENCE-GOSSIP, No. Gl, June 1899. 



brownish, in place of the dark olive-green seen in 

 the last two species. Costa and cilia f.w. decidedly 

 pink. 



Hab. S.E. Asia Minor (Malatia). Ye.— Vie. 



A. me sopot arnica, 



Hadjin and Eibes (Antitaurus). VI.— Vile. (R.H.) 

 a. var. transcaspica Stgr. R. II. p. 136. A light 

 form of second generation. Hab. N. Persia. 



8. A. cardamines L. Syst. Xat. x. 468, Lg. 

 B. E. p. 39, pi. xx. fig. 1, pi. xv., fig. 5 (transf.). 



34—43 mm. 



Ground colour of wings in both sexes white. 

 $ with the outer half of f.w. bright orange. A 

 small black spot towards inner edge of the orange 

 patch ; apex narrowly black. H.w. white, with the 

 markings of u.s. shining through. Bases of wings 

 black. U.s. f.w. as above, but with green tinting 

 to apex ; h.w. marbled with green aud white. $ as 

 3 , but entirely without orange tips. 



Hab. Throughout Europe. Asia Minor. Syria, 

 Siberia, and the Altai. A well-known and common 

 British insect, " the orange-tip." IV. — Vie., in 

 woods, fields, and hedgerows. 



Larva green, finely speckled with black, with a 

 white lateral stripe less clearly defined at its upper 

 than at its lower edge. On Cruciferae, often on 

 the seed-pods of Cardamine pratensis, but more 

 commonly on pods of hedge-mustard {Sisymbrium 

 officinale). 



PUPA. Boat-shaped, at first green, but changing 

 later to greyish yellow with clearer stripes. 



a. var. et ab. tivrritis Och. Sehmett. Eur. iv. 

 156. 



A name given to a form of the species in which 

 the orange patch in the S is narrower and the 

 black spot smaller, and on the extreme edge el' the 

 orange, not well within it as in type. I do not 

 think that this name is worth preserving, a- one 

 frequently meets with specimens, both in England 

 and elsewhere, which answer to this description, 

 which is from a specimen sent to me from Dr. 

 Staudinger as turritis. 



Ii. .'var hesperidis. Newnham. Ent. Record v., 

 pp. 97. 219 (1894). Kirby, Handbook of Lepi- 



