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NYMPHALIDM. 
more distinct ; the light apical patch of the fore wing extends 
almost along the whole length of the hind margin ; the black spots 
are very strongly marked. Hind wings deep reddish fulvous, with 
three straw-coloured hands spotted with black. PI. XLIV., 5. 
Times of Appeaeance. — June to jiugust. 
Habitat. — South-Eastern Europe, and Siberia ; Western 
Asia, and the Amur. 
Lakva. — Grey, with bluish grey spots mixed with brown ones. 
Head red, with black dots ; legs white, with black spots ; spines 
reddish, tipped with white (Guenee). Feeds on Verhascuin Thapsiis 
and other kinds of mullein in June. 
VARIETIES. 
a. Fascelis, Esp. ii. p. 171; 0. iv. 107 ; Hiib. 871-2. — Larger 
than the typical form, the female having the wings dusky. A 
variety of the spring brood found in South Russia (Sarepta). 
h. Nana, Stand. Cat. p. 18; Phaihe, Esp. 88, 5, 6 (1783); 
P'ascelis, Hiib. 873-4. — Smaller than the type, only having about 
two-thirds of its expanse; it is also much paler, having the ground 
colour of the wings pale fulvous. It inhabits the South of Turkey 
and other places in the South-East of Europe, occurring as the 
second brood. 
10.— M. Didyma, 0. I. 1, 30; Err. B. 85, 104, 1, 2; H. S. 
560-2; Esp. 61, 1. 
Expands from 1-35 to 1‘60 in. All the wings deep reddish 
fulvous. Hind margins black. The male has on the fore wings a 
row of crescentic black spots running parallel to the hind margin, 
a somewhat irregular central row ; there is a black discoidal mark, 
almost ring-shaped, and some basal spots. Hind wings with a 
hind-marginal row of black spots, and some black basal patches 
and spots. The female is slightly duller in colour ; and the fore 
wings have a faint row of spots between the hind-marginal and 
central rows, and traces of a similar row on the hind wings. 
Under side almost exactly as in Trivia, but not so brilliant in 
colour or so strongly marked ; the aj)ical light patch of the fore 
wings does not extend along the hind margin as in that species. 
