AGRIADES THETIS. 355* 



September 19th, 1865. Gillmer specially mentions and figures (op* 

 cit., pi. i., fig. 12) an example captured by Krodel, in Nuremberg, 

 September 17th, 1898, in which, on the forewings, the ocellated spots 

 are wanting, and on the hindwings their disappearance is asymmetrical, 

 the right hindwing possessing on the underside two small basal spots 

 and six small spots in the submedian row, the left hindwing only one 

 small basal spot, and three small spots in the submedian row, 

 evidently a form antico obsoleta. Blachier records (in lift.) a 

 $ captured at Y voire, near Geneva, June 3rd, 1886, with 

 no ocellated spots, except the discoidal lunules and one ocellated point 

 on the left forewing, the hindwings brown, with only a triangular white 

 blotch at the end of the cell, although all the wings preserve the 

 marginal lunules. Another $ , captured at Hermance, May 31st,. 

 1909, is -similar, except that on the left forewing are four small ocel- 

 lated spots. 



k. ab. cinnus (non Hubn.), Staud., " Cat.," 2nd ed., p. 12 in part, viz., (Hag*. 

 non refer. (1871). Adonis, Hb., " Eur. Schmett.," pi. cxxxviii., tigs. 698-9 (1808- 

 16); H.-Sch., "Sys. Bearb.," i., p. 121(1843); Bruand, "Lep. Doubs," p. 159 

 (1845). Bellargus ab., Briggs, " Proc. Sth. Lond. Ent. Soc," p. 77 (1894); Gillm., 

 "111. Zeits. fur Ent.," v., p. 52, pi. i., fig. 11 (1900). Adonis ab., ? Obth.,. 

 " Etudes," xx., pi. iii., fig. 27 (1890); Mosley, "Nat. Journ.," pi. iii., fig. 24 

 (1896); Walker, " Ent. Mo. Mag.," xliii., p. 133 (1907). Cinnides, Staud., " Cat.," 

 3rd ed., p. 86 diag. non refer. (1901) ; Seitz, " Gross-Schmett.," i., p. 315. 

 (1909). — Alis posterioribus subtus non ocellatis (Staudinger). 



This is a form with the usual spots on the forewings normal, on. 

 the hindwings absent. This name has been a source of great trouble,, 

 for Staudinger, in 1871, strangely followed Keferstein (Stett. Ent. 

 Ztg., xii., p. 308), and referred to A. thetis (bellargus) (Cat.,. 

 2nd ed., p. 12) Hiibner's figures of cinnus (Schmett. Eur., figs. 830- 

 831), an evident aberration of A. coridon, but he did not diagnose 

 Hiibner's figs. 830-831, but his figs. 698-699, really representing an 

 aberration of A. thetis, to which figures, however, he made no refer- 

 ence. In 1901, he repeats (Cat., 3rd ed., p. 86) the diagnosis of' 

 Hiibner's figs. 698-699 under the name cinnides, but this time 

 erroneously refers to the diagnosis, the figs. 645-646, to which, equally, 

 the diagnosis does not apply, the latter figures having no ocellated 

 spots on the underside of any of the wings. It is quite clear, there- 

 fore, from Staudinger's diagnoses, that the form he described as cinnus 

 (Cat., 2nd ed., p. 12) was not cinnus, Hb., figs. 830-831, and equally 

 so, that the form he described as cinnides (Cat., 3rd ed., p. 86) was not 

 adonis ab., Hb., figs. 615-616, but that it was a description of Hiibner's 

 adonis, ab., figs. 698-699, and, since Staudinger's name must follow his. 

 diagnosis, and not his erroneous references, we must assume cinnus, 

 Staud. = cinnides, Staud. = t/ietis (bellan/us) ab., without ocellated spots 

 on the hindwings, whilst cinnus, Hh.=coridon ab., without ocellated 

 spots on fore- and hindwings. Herrich-Schaffer refers (Sys. Bearb.,. 

 i., p. 121) to Hiibner's figs. 698-699, and notes that they represent a 

 5 without blue on the upperside, without ocellated spots at the base 

 of the forewings, and with the basal spots at the base of the hindwings- 

 and those of the curved row absent, except for two tiny white (unocellated) 

 spots. Bruand notes (Lep. Doubs, p. 159) a $ taken near Besancon,. 

 by Gevril, without ocellated spots on the hindwings. Briggs- 

 records (Proc. St/i. Lond. Ent. Soc, 1894, p. 77) a $, taken 

 at Folkestone, in 1875, with partial submedian row of spots on 

 forewings, but none on hindwings ; another specimen being figured 



