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(in lift.) that he has specimens in his collection as follows : — Spain : 

 Andalusia (ex coll. Boisduval), Granada, June, 1835 (de Graslin), etc. 

 Algeria: Col de Taza, April 18th (Allard), Mecheria, March 19th-30th, 

 1886, Geryville, May 10th-25th, 1886 (Lahaye), Sebdou, May, 

 1907 (Powell). [France: Basses-Alpes— Digne, $ , 1898 (Coulet).] 

 Lang also recorded (Ent., xxxiii.,p. 106) two <? s at Digne, June 19th, 

 1900, but afterwards (Ent., xxxv., p. 231) stated that they were not 

 true lorquinii.* Walker notes it [Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1890, p. 374) 

 as only being met with on one occasion in the Gibraltar district, viz., 

 May 16th, 1887, when he took a few specimens of both sexes in beauti- 

 ful condition, in a ravine close to the shore of Cabrita Point, about 

 two miles south of Algeciras. Nicholson records a specimen in a 

 damp spot on the road near Huejar, June 4th, 1895, the underside 

 not differing from typical minimus, but the upperside as blue as semi- 

 argus. Staudinger makes (Cat., 3rd ed., p. 89) buddhista, Alph., a 

 synonym of lorquinii. We have carefully examined Apheraky's figures 

 (Hor. Soc. Ent. Boss., xvi., 393, pi. xiv., figs. 9-10) of buddhista, which 

 are spoken of by the captor as being " very exactly drawn by Mr. Lang," 

 from the two specimens he obtained in the mountains of the Kouldja 

 district, on June 17th, at above 7000ft. elevation, and they certainly 

 leave no room for doubt that this insect is not a form of minimus or 

 lorqainii. They appear to be, both on the upper- and undersides, much 

 nearer C. sebrus, of which he obtained five typical^ s near Kouldja and 

 Kounguesse in May and June, and represent, in our opinion, a mountain 

 form of the last named. Chapman, referring to examples from Thian- 

 Shan, and sent from Berlin as, and agreeing absolutely with 

 Alpheraky's figure of, buddhista, remarks that, whilst it is really 

 impossible to detect any appreciable distinction between the appen- 

 dages of (J. minimus and C. lorquinii, those of C. buddhista on the 

 other hand present quite abundant points to separate it from these 

 two, even when considered from a quite ordinary point of view ; they 

 are, however, practically indistinguishable from those of sebrus. There 

 are no Kouldja (or other) specimens of buddhista in the British Museum 

 collection. 



ix. var. moreana, n. var.— There is, in the British Museum collection, a Morean 

 example of lorquinii, labelled " Morea, v., 1900, H. J. Elwes," which, although of 

 the same deep purple-blue ground colour as, is quite different in appearance from, 

 the Spanish examples of lorquinii in the same collection, the upperside of all the wings 

 being without the dark marginal border ; it is also without a discoidal lunule on the 

 upperside of the forewings, whilst the fringes are white, and the slender black 

 marginal line shows well by contrast ; the underside spotting is, however, very 

 similar, except that the two inner of the four usual spots round the discoidal, in 

 the median row on the hindwings, are absent. 



Egg^aying. — The ? of ('. minimus chooses preferably a flower-head 

 of Anthyllix vulneraria either showing no, or only just commencing to 

 show, yellow blossoms, walks down between the flower-buds, dragging its 

 body between the woolly calyces, passing round therlow T er-head, and then, 

 turning up its body, flying off to another head, repeating the process 



* Bromilow reports this insect doubtfully from the Alpes-Maritimes, and it is 

 reported from " Cher— St. Florent, very rare, and Nohant, June, rare," by Sand. 

 One suspect* these vecords are erroneous, and refer to highly powdered examples of 

 minimus. Powell feels satisfied that the form lorquinii, as known in Spain, does 

 not occur on the Mediterranean littoral. The only really recorded example appears 

 to be that in Oberthiir's collection received from Coulet. One feels that one would 

 like further information concerning this specimen. 



