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form occurring freely in many of the warmer parts of Europe in the 

 late summer brood. Both sexes are wanting entirely in the characters 

 that specially distinguish celina, viz., the comparatively wide black 

 marginal line and interneural marginal spots in the <? , and the more 

 intense brown ground colour and orange marginal lunules of the 

 upperside in the 2 . Culot's examples appear much more like the 

 minor specimens that occur at Gresy-sur-Aix, etc., than the well- 

 marked celina of Mauretania and Sicily. Similar small Syrian forms 

 in the British Museum coll. are labelled $ , " Afka, Lebanon, 10. 

 viii. '97 (Day)," 2 . " Cedars, Lebanon, 26. viii. '97 (Day)," both very 

 small, the 2 with weakly marked underside. 2 , " Cedars, Lebanon, 

 v. 1900 (Nicholl)," 2 . " Lebanon, May, 1886 (Pratt)," also small, 

 but with better marked spots on the underside. [Seitz, in his picture 

 book, considers kashgharensis to be equivalent to lucia, and describes 

 the $ as being darker on the upperside than the type, and the 2 

 as lightly dusted with blue, the underside of both having very small 

 eye-spots. One would like to know what Seitz really knows about 

 icarus at all.] 



y. var. fugitiva, ButL, " Proc. Zool. Soe. Lond.," p. 606 (1881); "Ann. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist.," 5th ser., ix., p. 207(1882); Swinhoe, "Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.," 

 p. 340 (1885); de Nicev., "Butts. India," iii., p. 74 (1890). Persica,* Butler [nee 

 Bienert), " Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.," p. 407 (1880); " Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist.," 

 5th ser., ix., p. 207 (1882); Swinhoe, "Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.," p. 340(1885); 

 de Nicev., "Butts. India," iii., p. 74(1890); Staud., "Cat.," 3rd ed., p. 85(1901); 

 ? Krodel, " Allg. Zeits. Ent.," ix., p. 50 (1904). ? Ghilralensis, Swinhoe.— 

 Expanse 1-2 in. Intermediate in character between persica and zephyrus, but 

 nearer to the latter. Wings of the s bright lilacine-blue, with a black marginal 

 line; fringe, with the basal half grey, the external half white; wings of the ? 

 smoky-brown, more or less washed with blue towards the base, a submarginal 

 series of small lunate orange spots, the outer border broadly blackish, fringe as in 

 the $ . Wings below whity-brown, greyer and paler in the $ than in the ? ; the 

 black spots arranged exactly as in L. zephyrus, but all smaller and with less 

 conspicuously white zones ; the double series of submarginal spots on the primaries 

 grey, and without connecting orange spots in the s , paler in the $ ; submarginal 

 spots on the secondaries less distinctly black, the orange spots paler, and relieved 

 by a pure white border as in L. zephyrus; base of the secondaries rather more 

 broadly washed with bluish-green. Expanse of wings lin. l^lin. Three pairs, 

 the $ s much worn. Quetta, North Beloochistan, March and April (Butler, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1881, p. 606). A ? taken at Quetta, in May, 1881, is larger 

 than a ? previously received, and more highly coloured, but agrees in its markings 

 {Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 5th ser., ix., p. 208). Chaman (May), Gwal (May), 

 Sheerog (June), Quetta (March to May), very common (Swinhoe). 



The types of fugitiva (2 £ s and 1 2 only are now in the British 

 Museum coll.) are labelled " Quetta, March 28th, 1880 ; " the $ s of 



* & lin. 21in. ; ? lin. 41in. Allied to, but distinct from, L. icarus, Kott., 

 the cilia shorter, the hindwing more produced at the apex, s , underside both 

 wings chalky-white, all the black spots extremely small, the marginal ocelloid spots 

 scarcely visible, those of the forewing showing no trace of orange, those of the 

 hindwing with small pale orange lunules along their inner margin. ? , with 

 greyish costal border of the upperside of the forewing, and with the greater part of 

 the wing behind this washed with blue, the hindwing broadly touched with blue in 

 the same manner ; the orange submarginal spots well separated on both fore- and 

 hindwing. Underside both wings whity-brown, with all the black spots smaller. 

 Forewing with two additional spots towards the base, the orange of the submarginal 

 spots very pale and restricted. <$ and ? with very little blue or green at the base 

 of the wings on the underside. Abundant at Kandahar in April, May, and June 

 (Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1880, p. 407). Very common at Kandahar in 

 October and November ; also a very large variety taken at Quetta in August and 

 September, and at Kasian and the Lora valley in June, fairly common (Swinhoe). 



