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NYMPHALWM. 
Laeva. — Black, dotted with white ; head and prolegs black ; 
spines rust-coloured (Bup.) Feeds on Plantago, &c., in May and 
September. 
The following aberrations have been named : — 
a. Corythalia, Hiib. Btr. ii. 2, T. 3. — The fore wings more 
broadly fulvous than in the type. 
b. Navarina, Selys-Longchamps, Catalogue des lepidopteres de 
la Belgique, Liege, 1837, p. 19. — Almost entirely black above, with 
hind-marginal fulvous band. 
14. — M. Aurelia, Nick. Syn. p. 12; Frr. 641, 2, 3. 
Pakthenie, Hbst. T. 283, 1-4, x. p. 238. 
Athalia Minok, Esp. 89, 2 (1). 
Athalia, Hiib. 19, 20. 
Expands from 1-25 to 1-30 in. Very close to M. Athalia, but 
rather smaller ; the wings are lighter in colour both as to the 
ground colour and the markings. The under side is much the 
same as in Athalia, but the white spots are smaller and less 
distinct. PI. XLV., 4. 
Times of Appearance. — June and July. 
Habitat. — Northern and Eastern Germany, Switzerland, 
Lapland, Kussia, and Armenia. 
Larva. — Black, dotted with white, and with yellow lateral 
spots ; spines black. Feeds on Veronica in June. 
VARIETY. 
Britomartis, Assman. Bregl. z. 1847 ; Veronicce, Dorfmeister 
z. b. 1863, p. 136. — According to the original description this 
variety differs from the type in having the exterior margin of the 
fore wings fulvous. I confess to my inability to see sufficient 
difference in specimens which have been shown to me as Brito- 
martis to constitute a variation ; nevertheless this form is supposed 
to exist, and inhabits Eastern and South Germany and the Valais 
in June and July. 
