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length, and has the usual Lijaeiia shape. Its food-plant is the 
stork-bill {Eroclimn cicutariimi). 
The Pupa has the usual Lycceiut form, pale yellow in colour, 
with a green tinge, with a dorsal stripe of reddish purple. It is 
spun up among the dry leaves of Erodiuia and Artemisia. 
VARIETIES. 
a. Allous, Hub. 990, This variety has the wings entirely dark 
brown above in both sexes, without any trace of an orange baud. 
It is found as a varietal form of the summer brood in South, 
Central and Southern Europe and North Africa. 
h. Salmacis, Steph. This and the following form are insular 
varieties peculiar to the British Isles, Salmacis, which has only 
been found in the North of England, is intermediate between the 
type and the var. Artaxerxes. The male has no orange band on 
the fore wing, and the black spots on the under side of the wings 
are very small. The female has a white discoidal spot on the 
fore wings. It is single-brooded. 
c. Artaxerxes, Fab. E. S. 297 ; Lew. Ins. pi. 39, 8, 9 ; Haw. 
Lep. Brit. p. 47. The male is often without any orange hind- 
marginal bands above. In the female they are generally distinct. 
Both sexes have a white discoidal spot on the fore wings. Under 
side entirely without black spots, the white ones only remaining. 
PL XXIV., 10. 
Habitat. — Scotland, as far as Aberdeenshire. 
Larva. — Pale green, with a darker dorsal line, and pink lateral 
stripe. It feeds on ELelianthemum vulgare. 
Artaxerxes is single-brooded, appearing at the end of June; 
the larva in May, 
22. L. Anteros, Frr. 265, 1 ; hi. p. 101 ; H.-S. 16, 17. 
Expands 0’60 to 1 in. Fringe white, narrowly spotted with 
brown. The male has all the wings light greyish blue, brown along 
the hind margins ; the fore wings generally have a black discoidal 
