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space, which is filled up in this area by a reddish- brown patch, hardly 

 visible in tages, where it does not alter the whitish -grey tint of this 

 space. This inconspicuous spot is, however, characteristic, and is found 

 in other exotic species. Sometimes the dark tint of the wings hides or 

 obscures the markings. The underside is darker, and the small marginal 

 dots have a linear form, and are larger on the forewings than in tages. 

 Graslin discovered this form in the low parts of the Sierra Nevada," and 

 Rambur says that he found it in the neighbourhood of Granada. Freyer 

 notes (Neic. Beit., v., p. 56) that "this insect, considered by Boisduval 

 (Ind. Meth., p. 319) as a variety of tages, shows remarkable difference, 

 both in size and marking, being considerably larger, and of a browner 

 colour (tages having ash-grey bands and spots) ; the most important 

 character, however, is the absence of the white dots before the fringes, 

 which, in tages, are most striking. The underside, too, is different, for, 

 not only is it browner in cervantes, but the six small white spots on the 

 forewings are shown sharply and distinctly; tages also does not possess 

 the large pure white spot which cervantes shows so plainly between 

 the oth and 6th nervures, almost in the centre of the wing. Cervantes 

 is altogether a much larger and heavier insect than tages." 



y. ab. Can •war.) unieolor, Freyer, "Neu. Beitr.," vi., p. 37, pi. 505, fig. 1 (1852); 

 Staud., " Hor. Soc. Ent, Ross.," vii., p. 86 (1870) ; " Cat.," 2nd ed., p. 34 (1871) ; 

 3rd ed., p. 98 (1901) ; Riihl, " Pal. Gross-Sclmiett,," i., p. 682 (1895) ; Tutt, " Brit. 

 Butts.," p. 121 (1896) ; Lamb., "Pap. de Belg.," p. 297 (1902).— Under the above 

 name Weissenborn lias sent me a Hesperiid, with the remark that he received this 

 single specimen from Frivaldszky, who had obtained it from the Greek Islands. I 

 consider this specimen to be simply an uniformly brown-coloured aberration of 

 tages, with which it agrees entirely in form and size. All the wings, as well as the 

 thorax and abdomen, are uniform blackish-brown. The underside has quite the 

 colour of tages, and behind the apex of the wing one discerns only two light dots ; 

 the colour is paler than on the upper surface. The antennas are just as in tages. 

 From serieea ^marloyi), to which it might also be referred as an aberration, it 

 differs in form and size, and it lacks the white dots on the upper surface. It should, 

 therefore, remain in collections under the first of these two names (Freyer). 



Staudinger simply diagnoses this form {Cat., 3rded., p. 98) as " Supra 

 fere unieolor," but, in 1870, he had noted (Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross., vii., 

 p. 86) that, at the end of April and in the beginning of May, on the 

 Parnassus, as well as on the Veluchi, and probably also on the Taygetos, 

 as well as near Smyrna, N. tages had been taken, whilst Aber had found 

 it in Corfu and Tinos. All the Greek specimens of tages, he says, are less 

 marked than the German ones, the whitish scales on the upperside of 

 the forewings being almost always absent, and the white marginal 

 dots less distinct, and sometimes altogether absent. Staudinger further 

 notes that he has a very good $ of this form from Weissenborn's 

 collection (whence came Freyer's type), possibly taken in Crete. This 

 form is rightly or wrongly recorded from : — Bulgaria : Rilo district 

 (Haberhauer). France: Nice (Bromilow). Germany: Baden, Carls- 

 ruhe, Wernheim (Reutti). Italy : Certosa di Pesio (Norris). 

 Roumania (Fleck). Spain: Granada (Nicholl). 



8. ab.(an var.)cZarus, Carad.," Iris," viii.; p. 61(1895); Lamb.." Pap. Belg.," p. 297 

 ( 1 902). Typical tages and ab. unieolor, Fer., are abundant everywhere in Roumania 

 from May to September; two specimens from Grurnazesti arc unusually large, dark, 

 and distinctly marked, coming very close to var. cervantes, from Andalusia, East 

 Sajan, and Hadjin. 1 caught a specimen a1 Varatic on Augusl 1st. which was very 

 light-grey in colour, and which exactly resembled two remarkably pale specimens 

 From Ain;isi;i in Staudinger's collection. This form seems to occur in eastern 



