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DORITLS; PARNASSIUS. By Dr. K. von Rosen. 
helios. helios Nick., the form described first (Vol. I, 10 b <$), from Transcaspia, flies especially near Merw. 
pcrsica. The North-Persian form (Vol. I, 10 b as helios $), from Shakuh, must be called persica Neuburger, although this 
name was originally intended only for aberrative specimens with no red colour on the forewings. A small race 
with strongly developed black marginal marking also in the <$. — Between helios Nick, and maxima Gr.-Grsh. 
balvcha. there occur all kinds of transitions. — balucha Moore, from the mountains between Quetta and Nushki 
(Baluchistan), in spite of the long description, is not safely separable from maxima Gr. Gr. The type according 
to Rothschild smaller than maxima. Moreover, Quetta and its surroundings are no more palaearctic. The 
ochracca. following individual deviations were denominated: ochraceal'Yb/., 3 from Namangan, ground-colour intensely 
phaeton, yellowish, with lighter red spots, on the forewing the black cellular spots are feebly traceable. - phaeton Bryk: 
instead of the black-edged red subcostal spots on the forewing there is only a black streak at the exterior cell- 
end between the 1st and 2nd median branches, hindwing only in the anterior half with an extremely narrow 
povcrina. black border, with hardly any ocelli. Beneath without decorative spots. Tcherdchul. poverina Bryk : 
decorative spots of forewing light yellow, ocelli of hindwing strongly reduced, above only represented by very 
narrow streaks. 
7. Genus: Doritis F. (A rchon Scudd., Dorarchon Rothsch .)*) 
apollinus. apollinus Hbst. Very dark females were denominated: nocticolor Stich. (3d) (to which also nocturna 
nochcolor. Schaw. belongs, described after a couple treated with cold). Like Parnassius apollo, also apollinus changes 
greatly in breeding, so that bred specimens are little to be considered injudging the geographical forms. I. a. the 
red colouring often increases very much in bred specimens, as for instance a series from Aleppo bred by Max 
Iyorb shows. An extremely red-coloured $ from this series with an almost entirely red hindwing was named 
pretiosa. pretiosa Schaw., whilst in ochracea Wgn., which was likewise based upon bred specimens from the Antilibanon, 
oehracea. the light parts of the wings are ochreous; aurantiaca Culot refers to brown $$ of the race bellargus Stgr. from 
can an Beirut. — The geographical forms may be divided into three groups: 1) specimens from Thracia and Asia Minor 
(thracica Buresch, apollinis Hbst., amasina Stgr.)-, 2) the more variegated form with a broader margin of the 
hindwing from Syria and Palestine (bellargus Stgr.), 3) the more alpine specimens from Armenia and Kurdistan 
(apollinaris Stgr., mardinci Stich, armeniaca Shelj.). In Asia Minor the species (type from Smyrna) seems to fly 
in almost the same form. The cell-end spot characterizing amasina Stgr. occurs but very rarely in deviations, 
except in amasina. (The specimens denoted as amasina in Vol. I, 10 d do not exhibit this mark, they appear to 
thracica. me to originate from the south-eastern part of Asia Minor.) — thracica Buresch, from the Kurn Dagh in South- 
Eastern Thracia, chiefly differs from typical apollinus in the black costal-marginal spots in the cell being more 
or less broadly connected, the $ with strongly developed red spotting. The first European habitat ascertained. 
armeniaca. — armeniaca Shelj. is somewhat larger than apollinaris Stgr., intensely dusted with grey, hindwing with hardly 
any yellow ground-colour, always with a distinct cell-end spot. From Turkish Armenia, Ak-Bunuz between 
Bajburt and Kalki, also taken near Erzerum. 
8. Genus: Parnassius Latr. 
Mnemosyne- Group. 
mnemosyne. P. mnetnosyne L. (Vol. I, p. 20, pi. 10 e). — The following condition-forms have been newly described. Opi¬ 
nions may differ as to their validity, yet they are mentioned so as to ascertain their range as exactly as possible. 
albovenata. 3 ab. albovenata Kammel, from Giesshtibel near Moedling, shows the whole neuration of the wings covered 
flavidove- with white, instead of black, scales. — ab. flavidovenata Reisser, a form of tergestus, shows the veins coloured 
not a- y e ii OW) above white-scaled; fringes black. - In ^-ab. perfusa Bryk, from Styria, the white on the wings above 
levcothea. is strewn with black scales. - - From Lower Austria, Reisser describes ab. leucothea which is said to be no 
albino. It is scaled chalky white, with yellow veins which are scaled white above, with white instead of black 
fringes. It is to be reckoned to subsp. mesoleiecus Fruhst. — A form hardly worth being denominated is ab. 
subochracea. subochracea Bryk the veins of which are said to be amber-coloured. — A transition to melalna Honr. (Vol. I, 
hemime- p. 20) is called by Bryk $-ab. hemimelaina. from Erstfeld, belonging to tergestus Fruhst. The forewing is entirely 
laina. greyish-black, transparent (melaina). In the hindwing the whole basal area inclusive of the disc is sooty 
black and not hyaline. Around this partially melanotic area there is grey powdering in which we notice distinct 
costal spots and a fasciata- band. The margin of the wing is lighter. — For small forms of all the races Verity" 
minuscula. introduces the name: minuscula (= minuscula Trti. & Bryk). — For aberrations of all the races, exhibiting 
lunulata white lunar spots in the hyaline margin of the forewing, Sheljl t zhko introduces the name: lunulata. — ab. 
*) Of. Rothschild Nov. Zool. 25 (1918), p. 219, who considers the name Archon Scudd. based upon HIbner Syst. 
Alph. List 1822, to be inadmissible, because it was already used 1816 by Hue neb. in the “Verzeichnis bekannter Schmetterlinge” 
(List of the Lepidoptera known) in the sense of Eques Linn& and since it is nomenclaturally composed just like Linnes Papilio. 
I do not agree with this opinion. 
