AGRIADES CORIDON. 33 



fig. 361 (1843); vi., supp. p. 27 var. c (1852); Barr., " Lep. Br. Is.," pi. xii., fig. Id 

 (1893); Pickett, " Ent. Rec," xii., p. 272 (1902); " Proc. Sth. Lond. Ent. Soc," 

 p. 114 (1902); Trautm., " Int. Ent. Zeits. Guben," ii., p. 162 (1908). Mariscolore, 

 Bdv., " Gen.," p. 12 (1840); Heydnr., " Lep. Eur. Cat. Meth.," p. 14 (1851); Gerh., 

 " Moa.," p. 17, pi. xxxii., figs. Sa-b (1852); Bell, " Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr.," ser. 3, 

 vi., p. 310 (1858); Mill., "Icon.," i., p. 84 (1858); Girard, " Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr.," 

 ser. 4, v., p. 114 (1865); Berce, " Fn. France," L, p. 143, pi. vi., fig. 7 (1867). 

 Syngrapha, [Kef., " Stett. Ent. Ztg.," xii., p. 308 (1851)]; Meyer-Diir, " Schmett. 

 Schweiz," p. 86 (1852); Staud., " Cat.," 1st ed.. p. 6 (1861); Kirby, " Syn. Cat.," 

 p. 368 (1871); Staud., "Cat.," 2nd ed., p. 12(1871); Sand, "Cat. Lep. Ber. 

 Auv.," p. 6 (1879); Mosl., " Illus. Lep.," pt. vii., pi. v., fig. 6 (1880); 

 Jourdh., "Cat. Lep. Aube," p. 18 (1883); Frey, "Lep. Schw.," p. 19 

 (1880); Berce, "Lep. Fr.," p. 17 (1884); Lang, "Butts. Eur.," p. 122, 

 pi. xxvi., fig. 7 (1884); Kane, "Eur. Butts.," p. 45, pi. iv., fig. 11 (1885); South, 

 "Ent.," xx., p. 4(1887); Dale, "Hist. Brit. Butts.," p. 6t (1890); Riihi, "Pal. 

 Gross-Schmett.," pp. 278, 763 (1892); Caradja, "Iris," vi., p. 176 (1893); Tutt, 

 41 Brit. Butts.," p. 167 (1896); Obth., " Etudes," xx., pp. 19 et seq. (1896); Mosley, 

 " Nat. Journ.," v., supp. p. 9, pi. iv., fig. 1 (1896); Courv., " Soc. Ent.," xii., 

 p. 26 (1897); Favre, " Macr.-Lep. Val.," p. 21 (1899); Staud., "Cat.," 3rd ed., 

 p. 86 (1901);-Spuler, " Schmett. Eur.," 3rd ed., i., p. 66 (1902);Lamb., " Pap.Belg.," 

 p. 239 (1902); Sladen, " Ent.," xxxv., p. 274 (1902); Wheeler, "Butts. Switz.," p. 31 

 (1903);Bartel, " Ent. Zeits. Guben," xviii.,p. 114(1904); South, " Butts. Brit. Isl.," 

 p. 168, pi. 117, fig. 8 (1906); Lamb., " Cat. Lep. Belg.," p. 427 (1907); Rebel, 

 "Berge'sSchmett.,"9thed.,p.72(1909); Seitz, "Gross-Schmett.," p. 315, pi. lxxxi., 

 fig. d (1909). Syngraphia, Mill., " Cat. Lep. Alp.-Mar.," p. 104 (1872).— Thickly 

 dusted with blue, with black central lunule; the hindwings with orange marginal 

 spots; beneath brownish-grey, with eye-spots and orange marginal spots on hindwings. 

 Descr.: ? . Thickly sprinkled with greenish-blue scales, a central black lunule on each 

 wing. The forewings on the costa and hindmargin broadly black-brown ; the hind- 

 wings on the hindmargin with orange spots inwardly bounded by black angular 

 marks, but outwardly containing black dots ; fringes white spotted with pale brown. 

 The underside brown-grey, with a black central spot and many ocellated spots placed 

 as in the figure : on the outer margin there is a row of black dots, and, in front of 

 them, similarly-coloured lunules, whilst between these the hindwings have orange 

 spots. This butterfly occurs in June in the Tyrolese and Swiss Alps ; the figure is 

 taken from a specimen in the Liege museum. I have not seen the J (Meigen). 

 Distribution. — Belgium : With the type, Namur, rare (Lambillion), Han, 

 Torgny (Haverkampf). England: Kent — Dover (Pickett); [Surrey (Sweeting, Proc. 

 . Sth. Lond. Ent. Soc, 1908, p. 76) wants confirmation] ; Wilts — Devizes dist., Alton 

 Barnes (Sladen). France: Aube — les Riceys (Jourdheuille); Bouches-du-Rhone — 

 rare, Ste. Baume (Siepi); Calvados — rather rare (Fauvel), Amfreville, Eraines 

 (Moutiers); Cher— Sologne, St. Florent, rather rare (Sand); Charente — between 

 Jarnac and Rouillac (Giard); Charente-Inferieure — St. Romain-de-Benet (Robin, 

 coll. Rowland-Brown), St. Georges near Royan (Oberthur); Dordogne (Tarel); 

 Doubs — Besancon (Oberthur); Eure — Deux-Amants, Chateau-Gaillard (Dupont); 

 Eure-et-Loire (Guenee); Haute-Garonne, occasionally (Aubusson); Hautes- 

 Pyrenees, rare (Rondou); Indre — [form approaching syngraplia at Fongambault 

 and Concremis (Martin),] Gargilesse (Sand); Loir-et-Cher — Forest of Russy, 

 rather common (Chevillon); Maine-et-Loire — sometimes commoner than the type 

 (Delahaye); Puy-de-D6me — the hills of the Limagne, not rare (Guillemot); 

 Clermont-Ferrand (Sand); Sarthe (Knockaert cit. Frionnet); Seine — Paris 

 •(Oberthur); Seine-et-Marne — Fontainebleau (Tutt); Seine-Inferieure — Orival 

 (Martel); Saone-et-Loire — St. Sernin-du-Plain (Constant); La Grisiere (Lafay). 

 Germany: Hanover — Giesener Berg, near Hanover (Peets); Baden — the Turmberg 

 at Durlach (Spuler and Meess); Prussia — Jena (Trautmann). Silesia (Neustadt and 

 Kornatzki). Spain : Aragon (Nicholl); Masegar, Lindayos de Moscardin (Zapater). 

 Switzerland : Follaterre, near Fully, once (Favre), Gamsen (Courvoisier, Soc. Ent., 

 xii., p. 26); Neuchatel (de Rougemont), Tramelan (Ruhl); Bernese Jura (Agassiz). 

 [Aigner-Abafi notes (in litt.) that this form does not occur in Hungary as Spuler 

 says. Rtihl gives Budapest.] 



It appears very probable that the earliest reference to this insect is 

 the note by Schroter, referred to by Bergstrasser (Norn., in., p. 3), 

 where he says that the former speaks of a green Argus which is, 

 indeed, very similar to coridon, but has the peculiarity that the 



