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Var. d. with the humeral spots beneath the anterior wings obliterated. 



Var. e. all the wings beneath with the central rliscoidal spot alone; the 

 margins with faint rudiments of ocelli. 



Var./. with the spots more or less confluent beneath, sometimes prolonged 

 into dashes ; the colour of the upper surface of the wings in both sexes varies 

 much ; the female has been found with the disc fine rich blue. 



There are a great many named varieties : — 



Yar. Albicans, H.8., as its name implies, is a white form found in Anda- 

 lusia. 



Yar. Appenina, Zell., is a very pale form found on the Italian mountains. 



Yar. Hispana, H.S., or Arragonensis, Gerh., is another pale form, with 

 spotted hind-margin, found in Spain. 



Yar. Corydonius, H.S., or Ossmar, Bis., is a violet-blue form, found on the 

 mountains of Asia Minor. 



Yar. Caucasica, Led., is a sky-blue form, from Armenia. 



Yar. Syngrapha, Kef. is a form of the female which resembles the male, 

 except that there is a brownish band of orange rings or lunules round the 

 hind-margin of all the wings. It occurs chiefly on the Swiss Alps, but I 

 have a specimen taken in the South of England, and it has also been met 

 with at Frankfort. 



Yar. Calathais, Jermyn, has a discoidal white-cinctured crescent on the 

 underside of the hind wings, below which, towards the posterior margin, is an 

 undulated band consisting of seven ocellated spots ; the , forewings sometimes 

 have a central spot and sometimes more. I have both male and female of 

 of the variety, and also a specimen with only a central spot on the underside 

 of one of the forewings and several on the other. 



Var. Cinnus, Hubner, closely resembles the last, but the hind wings are of 

 a much darker brown, and the fore wings have seven black spots in white 

 rings on the underside. 



Var. Parisiensis, Gerh., closely resembles the type with the exception of a 

 white streak on the underside of the hind wings. 



Besides these there are other remarkable varieties. Mr. Welman has a 

 female taken at Croydon, with a small patch of the male colour on the fore 

 wings, and a larger patch on the hind wings ; and I have one which is chalky 

 white on the underside, and has only one black spot, and that in the centre 

 of each fore wing. 



The caterpillar is very similar to that of Adonis, but is of a lighter and 

 and brighter green, and the hairs it is covered with are of a light brown. In 

 every other particular of form and ornamentation the two agree. It 

 feeds on Hippocrepris comosa, Anthyllis vulneraria and other allied plants. 



