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S.4 TYIUD.E. 
145, 6, 510, 11 ; Fidia var. 52, 4. Statilinus var. Maiiiani, II. S. 
190, 1 ; yi. p. 15. — Expands from 1’75 to 2*50 in. Larger and 
paler than the type ; the female has the black spots distinctly 
ringed with yellow. Under side ; Hind wings much paler and 
more uniform in colour than in the type ; the white band indistinct 
or, as in the figure, altogether absent, but the dark lines across the 
wings are rather more conspicuous by contrast to the lighter 
ground colour ; near the hind margin are some whitish or yellow 
s})ots. PI. LXX., 1. 
Times op Appeakance. — June and July. 
Habitat. — The South of Europe and Asia Minor. 
h. Fatua, Err. 415, 3, 4 ; H. S. 192, 3; Stgr. Hor. 1870, p. 72. 
— Very close to AlUonia, but the under side of the hind wings is 
much more uniform in colour, being almost entirely one shade of 
grey, without any white band or central dark streaks ; the hind 
margin is somewhat more dentate than in AlUonia. PI. LXX., 2. 
Times op Appeaeance. — June and July. 
Habitat. — Eastern Greece, principally in the neighbourhood 
of Athens ; also Asia Minor. 
Obs.- Hi’. Staudinger gives Fatua specific rank, but I am 
inclined to agree with those who consider it merely a local race of 
S. Statilinus, and do not think it sufficiently distinct from AlUonia 
to be considered a distinct species. I have a series, taken last year 
in the South of Spain, all in one locality, containing several 
forms intermediate between AlUonia and Fatua. 
14. — S. Fidia, Linn. Syst. Nat. xii. 770; Esp. 49, 3; Hub. 
147, 8; 0. i. 1, 179; Godt. ii. 11, 34. 
Expands from 1-75 to 2 in. Very similar above to the last 
species, especially to var. AlUonia, but there are some whitish 
spots on the fore wings internal to the two black ones, and the hind 
wings sometimes show a trace of a whitish central band ; the hind 
margin of the hind wings is somewhat more dentate than in the 
last. Under side : Fore wings much the same as in the last 
species, but somewhat lighter in the ground colour, and with more 
strongly marked lines, especially near the base and on the costa. 
Hind wings white and grey, the inner marginal portion of the 
