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LYCMNID^. 
are two or three broods in the year ; the individuals of the spring 
brood are smaller than those which appear later in the season, and 
to these the name Folysperchoii, Berg., is generally given. — Expands 
0'70 to 0’80 in. Besides this seasonal variety, there is an 
aberration found at the same time and in the same localities as the 
typical form : this is the 
VARIETY. 
Coretas, Och. i„ 2, 60. Differs from the type in the absence 
of the orange spots on the under side. 
Larva. — Pale green, with a darker dorsal stripe, dark lateral 
streaks, and light brown and white spots. 
Times of Appearance. — June, and again in antnnin and early 
spring, after hybernation. It feeds on trefoil and other Leguniinosce. 
5. L. Fischeri, Ev. Bull. Mosc. (1843) iii. 537 ; H.-S. 218-9 ; 
Err. 440, 2. 
Expands 0.90 to 1 in. Hind wings with very minute tails. All 
the wings are dark brown ; the fore wings have a small dark dis- 
coidal spot ; on the hind wings is a row of faint light spots placed 
parallel to the hind margin. The fringes of all the wings are white. 
Under side : — The ground colour is light grey. The fore wings 
have a double row of narrow black spots placed parallel to the hind 
margin ; internal to this is an irregular row of larger spots, that 
near the anal angle being the largest, and besides these there is a 
black discoidal spot surrounded like the others by a light ring. 
There are no basal spots. The hind wings have a double row of 
hind-marginal spots enclosing a faint orange band, the black spots 
near the anal angle being spotted with silvery green ; between this 
row and the narrow linear discoidal spot is an irregular row of 
black spots in light rings ; besides these, there are basal spots four 
in number. PI. XXIII., 6. 
Time of Appearance. — July. 
Habitat. — The Steppes of South-Eastern Bnssia ; dry 
meadow^s in the Ural Mountains and the Altai. Like most other 
exclusively Ilussian species, rare and dilhcult to obtain. 
Larva. — Uiikuown. 
