228 BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



Alveolus var., Freyer, " Neu. Beit.," iv., p. 126, pi. 361, fig. 3 (1842).— P.P. U. 

 taras. Alis dentatis divaricatis, fuscis, albo-maculatis, punctatisque. Wings 

 irregularly dentated, dark brown, with white spots and dots. If this insect is a 

 distinct species as Scriba asserts, then the name taras would be more correct than 

 that of morio, as Scopoli called it*. In size and appearance, it is like saof , usually, 

 however, it is smaller, and the tips of the antennas, which are very prominent in 

 other species, are almost entirely covered with hair; the ground colour, the spotted 

 outer border and pattern of the hindwings resemble tbose of sao ; the markings of 

 the forewings are also similar, but the three innermost are very conspicuous, much 

 larger than the others, while that nearest the lower margin is long and broad ; on 

 the underside is the pattern of the upperside, and the ground colour is greenish- 

 grey-brown (Bergstrasser). British localities. — Berks : Wokingham (Hamm). 

 Cambridge: Chippenham Fen (Kothschild). Cornwall: Bude (Mathew). Devon: 

 South Devon (Bogers), Dartmoor (Gummer), Woodbury (Kane), Exeter (South), 

 Lustleigh (Buckell), Plymouth (Lemann), Oxton (Studd), Instow (Hinchliff), 

 Torrington, Barnstaple (Mathew). Essex: Epping (Gerrard), Hazeleigh (Raynor). 

 Gloucester : Leigh (Hudd), Gloucester(Merrin), Painswick (Metcalfe), Wotton-under- 

 Edge (Perkins). Hants : Isle of Wight (Mitford), Bingwood (Fowler), Brockenhurst 

 (Wells). Middlesex: Old Oak Common, Kingsbury (Godwin). Oxford: Cowley 

 (Shipp). Surrey: Woking (Russell), Godstone (Turner). Sussex: Hastings district 

 (Bloomfield), Abbott's Wood, Battle (Jenner), Milton (Adkin), St. Leonard's (Sweet- 

 love), Horsham (Jackson), Tilgate (Sheldon). Continental localities. — Asia: Asia 

 Minor — Brussa(Fountaine). Austro-Hungary : Dalmatia (Mann), Lower Austria — - 

 Hernstein, etc. (Rogenhofer), Schallmoss, near Salzburg (Richter), Glockner (Mann), 

 Carinthia — Wolfsberg(fesfeRiihl). Belgium: Marchovelette, Beez, Fond d'Arquet, 

 Gedine, Brussels, St. Servais, province of Luxembourg (Lambillion). Bosnia and 

 Hercegovina : Sarajevo, Vranica Planina, Maklenpass (Rebel,). Denmark (Lampa). 

 Finland : Karelia (Lampa). France : Riviera {teste Buhl), Indre — Branche 

 d'Ardentes, St. Florent (Sand), Seine-et-Loire (Constant), Pont de l'Arche (Dupont), 

 Haute-Garonne, Arguenos — Pic de l'Entricada, Pyrenees (Caradja), Calvados 

 (Fauvel), Brittany (Griffith), Aube — Larrivour (Jourdheuille), Autun (Constant), 

 Rennes, Besancon, Mont Revard, Sologne, Chateaudun (Oberthiir). Germany: 

 Pomerania (Hering), Hamburg (Zimmermann), Luneburg (Machleidt), Hameln, 

 Osnabruck, Hanover, Gottingen (Jordan), Wiesbaden (Bossier), Oberursel (Fuchs), 

 Cassel (Borgmann), Waldeck (Speyer), Osterland, Crefeld, Elberfeld, Trier, Aachen 

 (Stollwerck), Barmen (Weymer), Giessen, etc. (Speyer), Baden — Gengenbach, 

 Karlsruhe, Pforzheim, Heidelberg, Weinheim (Beutti), Alsace — Foret de Lutter- 

 bach (Gerber), Doller (Michel), Basle, Banks of Weise (Peyerirnhoff), Thuringia 

 (Krieghoff), Gotha (Ruhl), Brandenburg — Berlin, etc. (Bartel), Posen (Schultz), 

 Silesia (Wocke), Saxony — Dresden (Steinert), Rachlau, Lobau (Schiitze), Chemnitz 

 (Pabst), Bavaria — Kehlheim, Grass (Schmid), Kempten (v. Kolb), Wernigerode 

 Leipzig (teste Ruhl). Greece: Acarnania (teste Riihl). Italy: Tuscany — Pian 

 di Mugnons (Stefanelli), Lombardy — Monti di VilPAlbese (Turati). Roumania : 

 Costitcha (Fleck). Russia : Baltic Provinces — Livonia (Lienig), Pichtendahl 

 (Nolcken), Annenhof (Huene). Switzerland: Gadmen, Niesen (Jaggi), Martigny, 

 Sion, Sepey, Gryon (Favre), Veytaux, Aigle (Wheeler), Berne (Flemyng), Weissen- 

 burg (Huguenin), Saas-Fee, Hermance, Fernex, Monnetier (Blachier). 



This is largely a $ aberration, ? s rarely reaching an extreme 

 stage in the development of the white spots of the forewings. 

 Bergstrasser figures (Nomenclatur, pi. 91, figs. 5-6) a specimen, under 

 the name of taras, with the forewings very white along the costa, and 

 the central transverse band of white spots strongly developed ; the 

 hindwings black with a marginal row of small white spots, and a 

 median white spot only ; the underside also with the white specially 



® We are unable to satisfy ourselves as to this. Scopoli's morio var. 2 reads as 

 follows : " Alis anticis supra albopunctatis ; fimbria albo fuscoque varia ; subtus 

 albomaculatis, eademque fimbria ; posticus utrinque simili fimbria, subtus albo 

 sordidoque variis. Roes., " Pap. Duirn. 01.," Hi., tab. x., fig. 7 ; Poda, " Mus. Graec," 

 p. 79, fritillarius." In our opinion, Roesel's figure is probably earthami, whilst 

 Poda's friiilhiriiiH, we believe, is an Kryimid (Urbanid). Scopoli's description, 

 however, might very well apply to this insect. 



f Sao, Bergstrasser^ malvae, Linne. 



