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SCIENCE- G OS SIP 



Habitat. On Eucalyptus goniocalyx Y. v. M. 

 Myrniong, Victoria, Australia. 



In my paper on Victorian Coccidae, 1898, I 

 referred to this insect with a note of interrogation, 

 and gave a figure of it in plate ii., fig. 19. Since 

 then I have collected a fine series of specimens. 

 The general characters of the galls are so constant, 

 and the anal segment and appendages so different, 

 that I have decided to consider it as a variety of 

 B. munita. It would, however, be very easy to 

 make a new species of it. 



Myrniong, Victoria, Australia, 

 April 10th, 1901. 



BUTTERFLIES OF THE PALAE- 

 AECTIC REGION. 



By Henry Charles Lang, M.D., M.R.C.S., 

 L.R.C.P. Lond., F.E.S. 



(Continued from page 44.) 



Genus COLIAS {continued). 



28. C. montium Oberth. Et. xi. 1886, p. 16> 

 t. 6, f. 41. 



35 — 40 mm. 



Differs from C. hyale in its smaller size and 

 greener tint of ground colour in <? . The marginal 

 spots are larger and more regularly placed. H.w. 

 shaded with bluish-grey throughout basal area, 

 the marginal border of square light yellow spots 

 forming a continuous band. Disc, spot lighter than 



C. montium. Male. 



ground colour, in some specimens having a very slight 

 trace of orange or yellow. J resembles S, but 

 the black markings are stronger and the ground 

 colour whitish. U.s. very much as in C. hyale, but 

 the ground colour of f.w. is whiter. H.w. with 

 sub-marginal spots faintly marked or obsolete. 

 Disc, spot smaller and single. Antennae, thorax, 

 and fringes as in C. hyale. 



Hab. Koko Noor, Amdo (Gr.-Gr. 1890). Stgr. 

 1901 queries it as a variety or Darwinian form of 

 C. phicomone, but I can hardly think, on comparing 

 a number of specimens of both, that this can be 

 the case. It appears to me to be a good species. 

 It seems more approximate to C. hyale. 



$ wings greenish-white, f.w. dusky at bases and 

 along costa. Marginal border broad and well 

 defined, with distinct spots of the same colour as 

 the wings ; neuration dusky ; disc, spot black and 

 well marked. H.w. somewhat as in C. montium, 

 but not with such deep basal shading. Disc, spot 

 whitish. J larger than $ ; ground colour of 

 wings much lighter, almost white ; marginal band 



■■/!. 

 C. alpherakii. Male. 



somewhat broader at costal end. H.w. almost 

 entirely without markings ; disc, spot white. U.s. 

 f.w. greenish-white in J , white in $ , shaded 

 with green along costa and at apex ; disc, spot two 

 black spots near in. marg. H.w. green with a 

 faintly marked white disc. spot. Antennae greenish, 

 sometimes tinged with red ; clubs sometimes red. 

 Thorax greenish-yellow. Marginal fringes of the 

 same colour as the wings. 



Hab. N.E. Pamir, Buchara, Samarkand, Vie. 

 (H.R.) Hazret VII. (H.R.) 



a. v. roschana Gr.-Gr. Hor. XXVII. 1893, p. 381. 

 Smaller, with a broader marginal band on h.w. 

 (" Var. vix nominanda " Stgr.) Hab. N.W. Pamir 

 (Roschau). 



30. C. sieversi Gr.-Gr. Mem. Rom. III. 1887, 

 p. 39. 



46 — 50 mm. 



$ wings light yellow, sometimes with an ochreous 

 tinge ; f.w. disc, spot very plainly marked ; marg. 

 band divided by the coalescent light spots, so as to 

 give the ajjpearance of an indistinct band along 

 ou. marg., and a second wavy distinct black band 



0. sieversi. Male. 



29. C. alpherakii Stgr. 

 p. 164. 



46 — 52 mm. 



Berl. E. Z. xxvi. 1882, 



placed midway between ou. marg. and disc. spot. 

 H.w. without markings; disc, spot very incon- 

 spicuous. Antennae, thorax, and marg. fringes 

 slightly tinged with red. J as in $ , but wings 



