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marginal fringes brown and dull white, and the hind wings have 
their hind margins somewhat dentate. Under side : Fore wings 
orange, paler in the female ; along the costa are some dark brown 
streaks ; the apex and hind margins are brownish grey, and the 
black spots are distinct and have white centres ; hind wings 
mottled with brown and grey, being lighter in the centre ; the 
neiiration is not conspicuous, being of the same colour as the wing 
pattern ; along the hind margin is a row of indistinct dark brown 
spots. PI. LXIX., 2. 
Times of Appeaeance. — July and August. 
Habitat. — South Germany, Central and Southern France, 
Switzerland, the South of Europe, Armenia, and the Altai. It 
occurs in France as far north as Fontainebleau and Versailles, but 
it is not found in Britain or in any of the more northern parts 
of Europe. It frequents limestone or chalky districts, dry and 
rocky woods, &c., often settling on the ground. 
Laeva. — Unknown. 
VAEIETIES. 
a. Erythia, Hidi. 591-2; 0. i. 1, 209. — Differs from the type 
merely in having the under side of the hind wings paler, and with 
whitish central band. 
Habitat. — South Eastern Europe. 
h. Dentata, Stgr. Cat. p. 29 (1871) ; Erijthia, Stgr. Hor. 1870, 1. 
— Has the subuiarginal spots larger than in the type, and distinctly 
dentate in shape. The hind wings have the neuration marked with 
white on their under side ; they also have a distinct white central 
band, and generally a darkish dentate line between it and the hind 
margin. 
Habitat. — South Eastern France. PI. LXIX., 3. 
c. Boabdil, Eamb. Faun. Andal. PI. 12, 1, 2 ; H. S. 474-6.- — 
Very dark above, with hardly any fulvous markings, some specimens 
being almost unicolorous. Beneath the colour is lighter than in 
the type, the hind wings being even more variegated with white than 
in var. ])eutata, and the neuration being, as in that variety, marked 
with white. 
Habitat. — Mountains in Andalusia. 
