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broad and distinct in nearly all the $ s captured ; she further notes 

 that she took a typically-marked specimen of C. semiargm at Zachlaton 

 (most probably, therefore, a specimen of the real parnassia, Stdgr.), 

 a short distance only from Kalavryta, at a lower elevation, the 

 var. Helena occurring generally all round the latter place. In 

 the British Museum coll., under the name of Helena are five J s 

 and five $ s all collected by Elwes in Morea, May 15th-17th, 

 1900. The $ s 28mm-31mm., 2 s 28mm. -80mm. These represent 

 a very distinct race ; the $ s on the upperside entirely blue, with 

 white fringes, narrow linear black margin, and most indistinct discoidal 

 lunules on forewings ; the underside finely but typically spotted and with 

 a distinct orange band on the hindmargin of the hindwing, edged with 

 grey internally, the grey suffusion being continued on the forewings as 

 well as a suspicion of orange ; the 5 s above of a deep fuscous, with a 

 well-defined orange band on the hindmargin of the hindwings and 

 the lower half of the margin of the forewings ; the underside almost 

 as in the $ s. Milliere's figures (Icon., pi. xxxix., figs. 1-3), whilst 

 showing the characters of the race, are not too good ; the $ (fig. 1) 

 is not sufficiently blue, and the margin is too suffused, whilst the 

 orange of the $ (fig. 2) is not sufficiently defined, nor is it on the 

 underside of the $ (fig. 3), although the small spots are characteristic ; 

 from the description it is clear that his specimens were not so 

 well or strongly-marked as those in the British Museum coll. 

 Two of the British Museum coll. specimens, one $ and one 2 , 

 have no spotting except the discoidal on the forewings = ab. antico- 

 obsoleta, n. ab. Staudinger's last diagnosis of this race (Cat., 3rd ed., 

 p. 89) reads : " Minor subtus fascia marg. rufa. Graec. in mont." 

 Rebel records (Bed. Ent. Zeits., xlvii., p. 91) the capture of this variety 

 by Holtz, in the Taygetos mountains (at Rindomo) at about 1500m. 

 above sea-level, on June 4th, 1901 ; also by the same collector (op. cit., 

 L, p. 293) on May 18th, 1904, at Hagia Lavra, at about 1000m. above 

 sea-level. 



d. var. antiochena, Led., " Wien. Ent. Monats.,"p. 148, pi. i.,figs. 2-3 (1861); 

 Staud., " Stett. Ent. Ztg.," p. 265(1862); "Cat.," 2nd ed., p. 14, in part 

 (1871); Buhl, "Pal. Gross-Schmett.," pp. 298, 767, in part (1895); Tutt, 

 " Brit. Butts.," p. 164 (1896); Nich., " Ent. Bee," xiii., pp. 171-172, 207-9 (1901); 

 Elw. and Nich., "Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.," p. 94 (1901); Staud., "Cat.," 3rd 

 ed., p. 89, in part (1901); Fountne., "Ent.," xxxv., p. 98(1902); Graves, 

 "Ent. Bee.," xviii., p. 150 (1906); xix., p. 68 (1907). ? Helena, Nich., 

 "Ent. Bee.," xiii., p. 172 (1901). ? Bellis, Nich., " Ent. Bee," xiii., pp. 

 207, 209 (1901). — Size and habit is of Lycaena sebrus. s . — Upperside 

 violet-blue like L. sebrus, with narrow blackish border, fine median lunule, 

 and nervures tinged with blackish. ? . — From the middle of the wing 

 to the inner margin, and from cell 3 to cell 4, blue, the rest of the ground 

 colour brown, the two colours blending with each other; nil the wings with 

 a more or less wide orange-yellow marginal band, most distinct at the inner 

 angle, and blending towards the middle of the margin with the ground colour. 

 The underside of the J ash-grey, of the ? brown-grey, the hindwings at the base 

 tinged with lilac ; all the wings with a fine black discoidal lunule edged with 

 white, and a wavy row of similar spots beyond ; on the hindwings is an extra spot 

 towards the base (in cell 8), and from two to four deep pomegranate-yellow spots at 

 the anal angle, which show a more or less distinct blackish margin, and from 

 which fine blackish scales continue as traces of a marginal band ; the orange- 

 yellow spots are also visible at the inner angle of the forewings in the ? , but 

 much fainter. Captured near An tioch. Four d s three ? s (Lederer). 



The $ s in the Britith Museum coll. vary from 27mm. -82mm., the 

 $ s from 2Gmm.-28mm. This appears to be the form in which the 



