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much smaller, hindwings particularly black with only the discoidal spot (or 

 spots) conspicuous ; underside of hindwings of <^ s brown, with white 

 spots almost restricted to central band ; of 2 , red, also with restricted 

 white spots = var. andalasica, n. var. (10) A $ from Cogne, August, 

 1894. The wings covered with grey dusting ; the spots of forewings 

 small, all, except angulated row, more or less obsolete ; hindwings as 

 forewings, and only the costal part ox transverse row of white spots 

 developed; underside of hindwings pale yellowish-brown, with well- 

 developed white spots = var. alpina, n. var. The described forms of 

 this species, so far as they are known to us, are as follows : — 



a. ab. zagrabiensis, Grund, " Ent. Zeits. Guben," xvii., p. • 49, fig. b 

 (1903) ; Gillm., " Soc. Ent.," xix., p. 34 (1904).— Form, size and ground colour, 

 identical with those of typical H. malvae, L., but the spots of the marginal area 

 form a complete white band on the forewings. This band runs from the costa to 

 the inner margin in the same direction as does the row of white spots. The second 

 row of white spots in the median area consists of two large white spots, meeting, so 

 as to form a blackish eye, with the white spot turned to the base of the forewings. 

 The outer row of white spots on the hindwings is obsolete, only represented by a 

 weak whitish dusting, whilst the median transverse row of spots on the hindwings 

 consists of only two short white narrow stripes. The fringes are not chequered, as 

 in the type, but those of the forewings are white, and only once interrupted by a 

 small dash of the dark ground colour just below the middle of the outer margin ; 

 three dashes occur in the fringes of the hindwings, but these do not reach the outer 

 edge, the external half of the fringes being quite white. On the underside of the 

 forewings, the spots also form a distinct white band ; on the underside of the 

 hindwings there are fewer, but larger, white spots than is the case with the type. 

 Near Agram — Zagrabia (Croatia) (Grund). 



Gillmer remarks (Soc. Ent., xix., p. 34) that the ab. zagrabiensis 

 differs from ab. taras and ab. intermedia; (1) in the fringes; (2) in the 

 confluence of the outer row of white spots into a complete band ; (3) by 

 the increased size of the white spots on the underside, whilst the spots 

 on the upperside of the hindwings are reduced, similar to those of ab. 

 taras and ab. intermedia. 



|3. ab. fasciata, Tutt," Brit. Butts.," p. 123 (1896); Lamb., " Pap. Belg.," p. 

 293 (1902) ; Wheeler, " Butts. Switz.," p. 6 (1903). Malvae var. c, WaUgiii., 

 " Skand. Dagf.," p. 274 (1853). Moryi , Strand, " Nyt. Mag. f. Nat.,'' xl., pt. 2, pp. 

 141, 163-4(1902); xlii., pt. 2, p. 132 (1904).— The forewings typical; the white spots 

 forming the central transverse fascia on the hindwings united into a complete 

 central band (Tutt). 



Strand's ab. moryi appeared to us, at first, to be a very slight 

 modification of ab. fasciata, viz., with the transverse band of the under- 

 side of the hindwings complete, and, as we were not at all sure whether 

 our ab. fasciata, in which the band on the upperside of the hindwings 

 is complete, is always so also on the underside, we were rather doubtful 

 whether ab. moryi would come within the limits of ab. fasciata. His 

 reference, however, to Wallengren's var. c determined the matter, for 

 the description of this form reads : " Fascia macularia media in parte 

 inferiore alarum posticarum continua maculis albis coh*erentibus 

 inter costam quadratam et sextam," which is a clear diagnosis of ab. 

 fasciata. 



Strand writes : " H. malvae is found abundantly at Odnes, and also in some 

 numbers at Vallo and Roikenviken. Examples of ab. taras, Bergs., were not found, 

 but I have a well-marked and quite intermediate specimen agreeing with 

 Wallengren's var. c, in which the white spots of the transverse band on the under- 

 side of the hindwings are joined, whilst between the 4th and 6th nervures a white 

 united spot is found. I name this new aberration after my friend Mory in Basle." 





