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Habitat. — Southern and Central Europe (except North 
Germany and the British Isles), Western Asia, the Altai, the 
Amur, and North Africa. Local, frequenting meadows near woods. 
Larva. — Black, spotted with white, and with a lateral band 
brown or fulvous. Spines black, except those on the fulvous band, 
which are fulvous. The ventral surface is reddish grey (Guenee). 
It feeds on Centaurea jacea from May to September. 
VARIETIES. 
a. ./^^theria, Ev. Lep. Ross. p. 73, pi. ix., 5, 6. Generally some- 
what larger than the type, though not so in the case of the 
specimen figured in the present work. Much paler in colour, and 
with fewer spots. It occurs in South-East Russia, and Siberia. 
PI. XLIV., 4. 
h. Caucasica, Stg. Hor. 1870, p. 29, T. 1, 2. A variety figured 
by Staudinger from Armenia and Greece. Larger and darker than 
the type. 
c. Occitanica, Stg. Cat. p. 18. Mentioned in Staudinger’s 
Catalogue, with this note, “ Forma magis variegata,” and with the 
habitat, Italy. 
d. iEtherie, Hiib. 875-8. As may be seen by Hlibner’s figure, 
a more uuicolorous and deeper coloured form of the species — 
probably originating in North Africa, but now found on the sea- 
coast of Andalusia, as well as on the African side of the 
Mediterranean. 
9.— M. Trivia, Schiff. S. V. P. 179; 0. I. 1, 36; Err. B. 91; 
Hiib. 11, 12. 
Iphigenia, Esp. 77, 1, 2; Bkh. i. 61. 
Expands from 1-35 to 1-60 in. All the wings deep reddish 
fulvous, bases blackish. Fore wings with a double hind-marginal 
row of black crescents, a central row of black spots, and some less 
distinct black markings near the base. Hind wings similarly 
marked, there being three rows of black spots, besides some basal 
marks, and a black hind-marginal border. Under side marked as 
in Cinxia ; but the colour is much deeper, and all the markings are 
