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often erroneously, and without knowledge of Esper's form) from most 

 localities in which the species is found. It is noted as very rare in 

 Switzerland — Basle (Knecht),Liestal (Christ), Sierre, Villars (Wheeler), 

 Berne (Jaggi), Gruyeres, near Bulle (Kowland-Brown), Jura, very 

 fine examples (Agassiz), Geneva district (Blachier); as rare in 

 Belgium (Lambillion); in Hungary, rare — Budapest, Nagyvarad, 

 Pozsony, N. Levard, Tavarnok, Eperjes (Aigner-Abafi); in Austria — 

 Bohemia (Nickerl); Lower Austria — Hernstein, singly (Rogenhofer) ; 

 in Galicia — Janow, and the Limberg sandhills (Nowicki) ; Dal- 

 matia (Mann) ; in Germany, distributed, East and West Prussia — 

 Graudenz (Riesen), Osterode, Allenstein, Danzig (Speiser); Hanover — 

 Liineburg, singly (Machleidt and Steinvortk); Rhine Provinces — Crefeld, 

 rarely with the type (Rothke) ; Westphalia — Warburg, singly (Uffeln); 

 Hesse-Cassel, singly (Borgmann); Waldeck — in the Quast (Speyer); 

 Thuringia — Jena, rare (Jordan); Province of Saxony — the Steigerwald, 

 singly (Ent. Ver. Erfurt), Seeben, Gutenberg, etc., singly (Stange); 

 Hartz — Achtermanns-Hohe, once, June 21st, 1870, the only time the 

 species was ever seen in the Upper Hartz (Hoffmann); Silesia — rare, 

 with the type (Wocke); Kingdom of Saxony — Deuben, near Dresden, 

 occasionally (Ent. Ver. Dresden); Bavaria — Augsburg, rare (Freyer); 

 Wivrttemberg — Reutlingen, rare (Keller and Hoffmann); Baden — 

 Constance, Lahr, Speier, Weinheim (Meess and Spuler). In France 

 it is also reported as scarce; it is noted from Alpes-Maritimes — St. Martin- 

 Vesubie (Bentall) ; Ardeche — Celles-les-Bains (coll. Fallou) ; Basses- 

 Alpes — Digne (Jones) ; Bouches-du-Rhone — St. Pons, Eaux-Vives, 

 near Aix, Beaureceuil (Siepi) ; Cher — St. Florent (Sand) ; Charente- 

 Inferieure — Royan (Dupont) ; Dordogne — Jaures, la Turquie, Queysac, 

 Simonet (Tarel) ; Haute-Marne — Langres (Frionnet) ; Hautes- 

 Pyrenees, frequent (Rondou) ; Haute- Savoie — Monnetier (Blachier); 

 Indre — Gargilesse (Sand) ; Loir-et-Cher — nr. Blois (cit. Kane); Maine- 

 et-Loire — Milly (Delahaye); Marne — Soulain wood,Rheims(Demaison); 

 Pyrenees-Orientales — Vallee du Lys (Keynes); Seine-et-Marne — 

 Fontainebleau (Berce); Seine — nr. Paris (cit. Kane). In Spain it is 

 noted as occurring in Catalonia — Barcelona, rare (Korb) ; Asturias — 

 Bilbao, common (Seebold). In Italy, it is recorded from Lombardy 

 — Bellagio (Forbes), Piedmont — Orta, (Lowe), Tuscany — Florence 

 (Stefanelli), Lucca (Verity), etc. In Roumania, near Slivno, at end 

 of May (Rebel). In Asia Minor — coast of Cilicia, April, 1895 (Holtz), 

 Amasia, rare (Staudinger), Brussa, rare (Mann). 



7]. var. (et ab.) coelestis,Obth., "Bull. Soc. Ent. France," pp. 23-26 (1908) ; 

 " Lep. Comp.," 3rd fasc, pi. xix.,figs. 65-68 (1909). Ceronus, Pierret, " Ann. Soc. 

 Ent. Fr.," ii., p. 119 in part (1833); Gerh., " Mon.," pi. xxx., fig. 2a (1853); 

 Trimoulet, " Cat. Lep. Gironde," p. 15 (1858); Girard, "Ann. Soc. Ent. Er.," 

 ser. 4, v., pp. 111-114 in part (1865); South, "Ent.," xx., pi. ii., fig. 12 (1887); 

 Bellargus ab., Austin, "Ent. Kec," ii., p. 273 (1891); Briggs, " Proc. 

 Sth. Lond. Ent. Soc," p. 77 (1894).— Neither of the two figures of 

 ceronus, (1) from Pressburg (Schmett. Eur., pi. xc. [cont. xl.j, fig. 2), (2) 

 from Wallachia (pi. cii. [cont. lvii.], fig. 1), given by Esper, nor that 

 represented by Hiibner (Eur. Schmett., pi. lxi., fig. 297), agree with the blue 

 ? of bellargus from western France, indeed, following the description of Esper 

 " alis ecaudatis caeruleis nigro-inductis," and in accordance with the figures in 

 Esper's and Hiibner's works, the ? form ceronus has the costa of the forewings 

 and the nervures black. This character is clearly shown in certain blue ? s 

 of bellargus, particularly in the Algerian form. On the contrary, the blue ? s 

 of bellargus from la Vendee, the Charentes, and the Bordelais, have the costal edge 

 of the forewings more silvery, as well as the wing-nervures ; on this account, 



