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SATYRIDM. 
VARIETIES. 
n. Cassiope, Fab. Mant. 42 ; Hiib. 626-7 ; 0. i. 1, 261 ; Godt. 
ii. 15, 1, 2 ; Frr. 20, 1, 2. — Smaller than the German type, and 
paler in colour, especially as regards the fulvous bands ; the black 
spots are smaller, less evenly arranged, and without the white 
pupils in the female; the submarginal fulvous bands are much less 
distinct, especially on the hind wings, where the black spots also 
are sometimes entirely wanting. PI. LVIII., 2. 
Time of Appearance. — June to August. 
Habitat. — The Alps of Switzerland and Piedmont ; the 
Pyrenees ; mountains in Hungary ; also in the North of England, 
and in Scotland, in marshy hollows at a great elevation. In the 
Vosges it occurs simultaneously with the typical Epiphron. 
h. Nelamus, Boisd. Gen. p. 26. — An Alpine form occurring in 
Switzerland. It has the black spots absent from the fulvous bands 
on all the wings. 
c. Pyrenaica. — Larger than Cassiope, with large ocelli on all 
the fulvous bands. Inhabits the Pyrenees. 
2. — E. Melampus, Fuess. Verz. p. 31, fig. 6 (1775) ; Esp. 103, 1; 
0. i. 1 ; Boisd. Ic. 35, 5, 6 ; Frr. 19, 1, 2. 
Janthe, H. S. 624-5. 
Expands from 1-16 to 1’25 in. Bark brown. Submarginal 
fulvous band of fore wings broken up into five or six spots of an 
almost oval shape, and separated only by the nervures, which are 
strongly dark brown or black ; in the centre of each spot is a very 
small black dot. Hind wings with three or four fulvous spots, 
smaller than those on the fore wings, each with a black dot. 
Under side : Dark brown, rather lighter than above ; fulvous spots 
small and distinctly separated. PI. LVIII., 3. 
Times of Appearance.-— July and August. 
Habitat. — Elevated meadows in the Pyrenees, the Alps of 
Switzerland, and South-Eastern France. It is a local species, but 
common where it occurs. 
Larva . — Unknown , 
