376 BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



Moncayo; also occasionally in the Swiss valleys, e.g., Saas-im-Grund, 

 August 7th, 1904, etc. 



8. ab. eleus, Fab., " Ent. Sys. Supp.," p. 430 (1798); Heyd., "Cat.," p. 12 

 (1851) ; Werneb., " Beitr.," p. 395 (1864) ; Staud., " Cat.," 2nd ed., p. 9 (1871); 

 Lang, " Butts. Eur.," p. 95 (1884) ; Kane, " Handbook," etc., p. 31 (1885) ; Pryer, 

 "Khop. Nihon.," p. 16 (1886); Leech, " Butts, of China," p. 400 (1893-4) ; Riihl, 

 "-Pal. Gross- Schmett.," p. 218 (1895); Tutt, "Brit. Butts.," p. 153 (1896); 

 Weism., "Entom.," xxix., transl. pp. 30 et seq. (1896) ; Obth., " Etudes," p. 14 

 (1896) ; Staud., " Cat.," 3rd ed., p. 74 (1901) ; Wheeler, " Butts. Switz.," p. 19 

 (1903); Chapm., "Ent. Rec," xvi., p. 170 (1904). Phlaeas var., Zell., " Isis," 

 p. 128 (1840). — Hesperia Rusticus alis emarginatis fuscis ; anticis utrinque disco 

 fulvo nigro punctato, posticis fasciola fulva, subtus cinereis nigro punctatis. 

 Habitat in Germania. Affinis certe if. helle at omnino distincta. Antennae 

 fuscse, albo annulatae, clava oblonga nigra, apice ferruginea. Alee anticse fuscaa 

 disco fulvo nitido, punctis majoribus nigris, subtus cinerese disco fulvo punctis 

 subocellaribus atris. Posticae valde emarginatas et fere bicaudatae, fuscae, nitidre 

 fascia abbreviata, dentata, fulva, subtus cinereae punctis minutis nigris strigaque 

 postica obsoleta, fulva (Fabricius). British localities. — Essex : coast district 

 (Harwood). Hants: New Forest (Bayne). Kent: Deal, Cuxton (Tutt), Dover 

 district (Pickett). Distribution. — Africa : Morocco— Tangier, etc. (Walker) ; 

 Algeria — Guelma, June, 1884 (Baker). Asia: Japan (Pryer), Asia Minor — 

 Broussa, August and September, 1903 (Fountaine), Smyrna, Beyrout, 

 Marmariee district (Mathew) ; Syria — Zebedani, Ain Zahalta, July 10th, 1904 

 (Graves), Jerusalem (Swinton). Austro-Hungary : pretty general in summer 

 brood — Herculesbad, July 12th-20th, 1900 (Lang). Belgium (Lambillion). 

 Corsica : Ajaccio, May 30th, 1893 (Standen), July, 1899 (Lang), July 12th-24th, 

 1903 (Rowland-Brown), Tattone, Corte, common July 9th-19th, 1904 (Rosa), 

 France : Fontainebleau (Tutt), Arcachon, early July, 1901 (Chapman), Ville- 

 franche (Mathew), Nice, almost replaced type in summer of 1893 (Bromilow), 

 St. Martin Vesubie, July 26th, 1903 (Rowland-Brown), Alsace — near St. Louis 

 (Kundeg). Germany: Prussia — ? near Lych, August 1st, 1877 (Sanio) ; Sachsen- 

 wald, in hot summers (Laplace), singly near Liineburg (Machleidt and Steinvorth), 

 rare in Thuringia (Knapp), not rare in second brood in Berlin district (Bartel and 

 Herz), one, July, 1898, near Reuthau, another, August, 1900, on the Sandberge, 

 near Zeisdorf (Pfitzner), once near Grimma, once near Beucha {Verein Fauna, 

 Leipzig), <s near Regenstauf, July 15th, 1875 (Schmid), near Kempten, on the 

 mosses (von Kolb), rare in hot summers, Baden (Meess and Spiiler), in the Wild- 

 park, near Karlsruhe (Gauckler). Greece : throughout the summer — Mesolonghi, 

 June, 1900 (Fountaine), Athens, Salamis Bay, Poros, Platea, Corfu, August 4th- 

 12th, 1897 (Mathew), Navarino (de la Garde). Italy : throughout, in the summer 

 — Sicily (Zeller), Naples district — Camaldoli (Weismann), Capri (Browne), Florence 

 district (Verity), Piedmont — Orta Novarese, June, 1900 (Lowe), Susa, Torre Pellice, 

 Bobbie, Aosta, etc. (Tutt), Gardone, August 1st, 1900 (A. H. Jones), Leghorn, Pisa, 

 Brindisi, Ancona (Mathew). Malta (de la Garde). Scandinavia: second brood, 

 Suldal, Stavanger, August-September, 1901 (Strand). Servia : Belgrade (Tutt coll.). 

 Spain: throughout in summer brood — Andalusia (Staudinger), Moncayo, Bejar, 

 Bronchales, etc. (Chapman), Gibraltar, Algeciras, San Roque, Balearic 

 Isles— Minorca, August 19th, 1874 (J.J.Walker), Majorca, April 8th-20th, 1906 

 (A. H. Jones). Switzerland: in the summer brood singly, more frequent in 

 the southern valleys — Val d'Anniviers (Tasker), Berisal, end of August, 1898, 

 Brigue, August 30th, 1898, Bellinzona, dark and abundant, July 15th, 1904 

 (Wheeler), Sion, Sierre, Niouc, Visp (Favre), Stalden (Tutt). Tukkey : PortBaklar 

 (Walker), Gallipoli district (Mathew), Crete, Isle of Pachalimon, June 17th, 1878, 

 very abundant and very dark (Mathew). 



It is generally assumed that eleus, Fab., comprises the darkest 

 tailed southern forms. The original description was made from a 

 German example, with fulvous disc to the fore wings, fulvous 

 hindmargin on the hindwings, and with the ordinary spots ; the 

 ground colour more suffused than the type, but evidently not at all 

 the most extreme form in this direction. Of the German suffused 

 forms, Zeller writes (Isis, 1840, p. 128) : " The aberration, mentioned 

 by Ocbsenheimer (p. 90), flies near Frankfort and Glogau, in July and 



