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the costa, this border is crossed by very distinct yellow veins ; the 
discoidal spot is black, with a reddish centre. The hind wings are 
dusky at the base, and light yellow along the inner margin ; along 
the hind margin is a narrow but distinct black border, divided by 
yellow lines ; the discoidal spot is orange. Female somewhat 
larger than the male. The black borders of all the wings broader, 
and without stripes, but enclosing a row of large spots of a greenish 
yellow colour. The hind wings are greener than in the male, the 
orange discoidal spot being very conspicuous. Under side : — Fore 
wings light orange at the base, greenish along the hind margins, 
parallel to which is a row of black spots ; discoidal spot silvery, 
surrounded with black. Hind wings greenish yellow, with a silvery 
discoidal spot, surrounded by a dull red ring, and having a smaller 
spot of a similar character placed above it ; at the base is a dull red 
mark, and another on the costa ; an indistinct row of spots of the 
same colour runs parallel to the hind margin. Fringes of wings, 
head, antennae and legs, red ; thorax and abdomen black above, 
light yellow beneath. PI. XIII., 2. 
Time of Appeaeance. — August. 
Habitat. — South-Eastern Europe, including Hungary, but 
not Greece ; also Asia Minor, Armenia and Siberia ; inhabiting 
meadows. 
Laeva unknown. 
Obs. — Stephens (111. Brit. Ent. Haust. i. p. ii.), in 1827, 
described a small variety of C. Ediisa under the name of Chryso- 
thcme, and several writers of that period followed him ; C. Chryso- 
theme has never been taken in England, nor indeed in Western 
Europe. Such errors as this often crept into the works of the very 
foremost entomologists in the early part of the century, and arose, 
no doubt, from the great difficulty of becoming acquainted with 
continental species. {Vide p. 63.) 
10. C. Thisoa, Men. Cat. Baiso. p. 244 ; Boisd. Sp. Gen. 686 ; 
Stgr. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1866, p. 49 . — Myrmidoue var., 
Ld. Ann. Soc. Belg. xiii. pp. 20, 21. 
Expands 1-75 to 2 in. The male has all the wings of a brilliant 
orange, much brighter and clearer than 0. Hecla. The fore wings 
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