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notes (Int. E nt. Zeits., ii., p. 87) that the ab. puncta, Tutt, is very common 

 in both broods in Croatia, near Podsused. In the British Museum coll., 

 examples of ab. puncta are labelled — Brussa, Borjom, Asturias— Picos 

 de Europa, Bergiin, Zurich, Preth, Courmayeur, Trieste, Podolia — 

 Bagovitza, Greece — Olympus, etc., so that the form is evidently very 

 widely distributed. In the Spanish forms, the spots are sometimes 

 small, sometimes large and approaching those of punctifera, Obth.; 

 very strongly-developed spots are also shown in a $ from 

 Estoril in Portugal. Esper figured this form of bellargus (Sclimett. 

 Eur., pi. xxxii. [supp. viii.] , fig. 3), and Bergstrasser also figured 

 (Now en., iii., pi. liii., figs. 5-6) a fine deep blue $ bellargus, with 

 a very characteristic series of interneural marginal spots on the hind- 

 wings. Aigner-Abafi renamed (Ent. Zeits. Gub., xix., p. 209) the 

 puncta form, as parvipuncta, noting that it inclined to var. puncti- 

 fera, Obth., in that it had marginal spots on the upperside of the 

 hindwings, the specimen described coming from Budafok. Many 

 collectors have overlooked the fact that punctifera, Obth., is a very 

 marked geographical race, of which the development of the marginal 

 series of interneural dots is only one feature, and that by no means 

 the most important, and one suspects that their references are rather 

 to the ab. puncta than to the var. punctifera, e.g., Trautmann notes 

 (Int. Ent. Zeits. Guben, ii., p. 162) that, near Jena, the $ differs in the 

 width of the black marginal band, and the size of the marginal spots, 

 some examples being similar to the ab. punctifera, Obth. A similar 

 form is recorded by Siepi, from the Bouches-du-Rhone. The puncta 

 form is also reported from Germany — on the chalky slopes of the 

 Mundelheim- and Budberg-streams, more frequent in the second 

 brood (Rothke), etc. 



Female forms. 



a. ab. marginata, Tutt, "Brit. Butts.," p. 170 (1896). Bellargus, Esper, 

 " Schmett. Eur.," pi. lv. (contd. v.), fig. 4 (1778). Latefasciata, Schultz, "Int. 

 Ent. Zeits.," xix., p. 214 (1906). Rufomarginata, Wagner, "Ent. Zeits. 

 Stuttgart," xxiii., p. 17 (1909). — ?. Brownish-black, with no (or scarcely 

 any) blue scales at base, but with bright orange-spotted margin to all 

 the wings (Tutt). 



This is a well-defined form of A. thetis, occurring in Britain more 

 frequently in the second, than in the first, brood, and more abundantly 

 in hot summers. The ground colour is generally browner than usual, 

 the blue scaling almost, or entirely, absent, and the marginal orange or 

 orange-red lunules especially well-developed. In the summer brood at 

 Gresy-sur-Aix most of the $ s appear to be of this form, and Wheeler 

 observes (in litt.) that the ? s taken at Fiesole, in mid-June (1909), 

 have very broad and bright orange borders. Specimens in the 

 British Mus. Coll. are labelled Trieste, Fuligno, Spalato, etc. The 

 same form, with well-developed red lunules on all the wings, is also 

 recorded by Wagner, from the neighbourhood of Zara, from Torbole 

 on Lake Garda, etc. 



j3. ab. tiphys, Esp., "Eur. Schmett.," i., pt. 2, p. 3, pi. Ii. (contd. L), fig. 4 

 (1778). — ? Alis ecaudatis supra fuscis basi casrulescentibus, subtus cinereis ocellis 

 oblongis numerosis. Upperside brown, tending somewhat towards light grey, 

 without the slightest glaze ; a white costal streak ; the fringes chequered 

 alternately with white and brown ; a black discoidal spot surrounded to some extent 

 by whitish-grey in the middle of the forewing ; at the edge of the hindwing are 

 found five such spots, the outer edge of which has a white, the inner a red, border, 

 and which are, in addition, bordered by a black line. The underside of the forewings is 

 light grey, the hindwings, however, somewhat more brownish or tinged with 

 yellow ; the eye-spots are, in position and form, very different from those possessed 



