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Erynnis. 



Erynnis, Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii. p. 15? (1801) ; Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 99. Type comma, Linn. 

 Ocytes, Scudder, Syst. Rev. p. 55 (1872). Type metea, Scudd. 



The species of this genus are best known by their resemblance to the Papilio comma 

 of Linnseus. Antennse about half as long as the costa ; club abrupt, subovoid ; apiculus 

 minute. Third joint of palpi almost concealed, second joint densely scaled. Erynnis 

 comma, Linn., varies much in the details of the wing-pattern, but the essential pattern 

 on the hind wing below remains the same, even in those specimens which at first sight 

 seem to be the most distinct. Several American forms of this species have been investi- 

 gated in great detail by Scudder (Mem. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. ii. pp. 341-353, pis. x., xi.), 

 but the differences in the male genitalia which he figures appear to us, for the most 

 part, mere differences of degree. 



! Erynnis comma. 



Papilio comma, Linneus, Faun. Suec. p. 285 (1761) ; Esper, Schmett. i. pi. xxiii. figs. 1 a, b 

 (1777) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. i. figs. 479-481 (1798-1803). 



TIab. Europe to Amurland. 



The following varieties of E. comma may be treated as more or less constant local 

 races, but we have not seen sufficient examples to enable us to form an opinion as to 

 how far their distinctions are really constant. 



! Erynnis comma, var. catena. 

 Hesperia comma, var. catena, Staudinger, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1861, p. 357. 

 Hob. Lapland [Staudinger). 



Erynnis comma, var. dimila. 



Pamphila dimila, Moore, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 576 ; de Niceville, Jour. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1892, 



p. 355, pi. J. fig. 9, ? ; Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 160. 

 Erynnis comma, var. dimila, Leech, Butt. China, &c. p. 595, pi. xli. fig. 12, <J (1892-94). 

 Erynnis dimila, de Niceville, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. 1894, p. 52, pi. i. fig. 7, 



Hab. N.W. Himalayas [Hellard) ; Ta-tsien-lo [fide Leech). 



! Erynnis comma, var. florinda. • ■ 



Pamphila florinda, Butler, Cist. Ent. ii. p. 285 (1878). 



Erynnis comma, var. florinda, Leech, Butt. China, &c. p. 594, pi. xli. fig. 17, 3 (1892-94). 



Hab. Japan (Pryer). 



I have no specimens of comma from Amurland, and therefore cannot say whether the 

 form described by Staudinger [Rom. Mem. sur Lep. vi. p. 211 (1 892)] as var. repugnans is 

 a well-marked form or not ; but I think that when he speaks of florinda as more probably 

 a var. of sylvanus and not of comma he cannot have seen the true florinda, which is clearly 

 more nearly allied to comma than to sylvanus, which also occurs in Japan. — H. J. E. 



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