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NYMPHALW.E. 
f. Occidentalis, Stand. Cat. Hor. 1870, 60 ; Ginxia, Hub. 
869-70 ; 'Frivia, var. H. S. 326-7. — Differs from the type only in 
being of a lighter fulvous in both sexes. 
Habitat. — South-Western Europe, Dalmatia, Armenia, and 
North Africa. 
g. Persea, Koll. Ins. Pers. p. 11 ; Dalmatina, Stand. Cat. Hor. 
1870, 60. — Something like the last, but smaller, both sexes being 
pale fulvous and having very few spots, as in the Russian var. 
Neera. 
Habitat. — Dalmatia and Persia. 
11. — M. Dictynna, Esp. i. 1, 48, 2 a, b (1799); Godt. i. 4, 3 ; 
Err. 319. 
Cokythalia, Hilb. 15, 16. 
Expands from 1-25 to 1'50 in. Male: Fore wings dark 
blackish brown, with three rows of fulvous spots, and several 
basal spots of the same colour. Hind wings black, with two rows 
of fulvous spots. Female : Fore wings fulvous, with black bands ; 
hind wings black, with three rows of light fulvous spots, sometimes 
nearly white. Under side : Fore wings fulvous, with a few black 
spots, and some yellowish ones at the apex. Hind wings straw- 
colour, with a central row of light spots, some of them white, and 
almost as bright as those met with in the small species of 
Arggnnis ; on either side of this row is a bright brown band, that 
nearest the hind margin being the broadest. Marginal fringes 
brown and white. PI. XLV., 1. 
Times of Appeaeance. — June to the middle or end of 
August. 
Habitat. — Meadows and open places in woods, in Central 
Europe (with the exception of Great Britain), Southern Scandi- 
navia, Dalmatia, Turkey, and South Russia. 
Larva. — Dark brown, with bluish grey dots, and with a black 
dorsal line. The spines are reddish brown, with black tips. Head 
black, with greyish blue spots. It feeds on Veronica in May. 
