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of Rome is smaller than the second generation. The black marks of the upperside are less intensive, the hind wings 
powdered with yellow. - subalbidice Vrty. from Tuscany can scarcely be differentiated from cilbidice. 
jachontovi Krul. is the autumn form from Eastern Russia and Central Asia. It comes between daplidice and jachonloci. 
bellidice from those regions: it is somewhat smaller, the green of the underside is more pronounced and covered 
with black scales, the white spots are smaller. — Verity has proposed zellerica as nom. nov. instead of 
messanensis Z. for the first generation from Sicily. This new denomination is superfluous, it is without reason. 
Fruhstoreer describes from Palestine subsp. laenas. It is larger than bellidice O. from Smyrna and Beirut laenas. 
and than persica Bien., although otherwise it closely resembles same owing to the striking pale underside which 
shows considerable yellow admixture. - subsp. orientalis KardaJcoff from the South Ussuri territory belonging orientalls. 
to the summer generation contains much larger insects than the european. The marking of the underside 
of the hindwings is impure yellowish green, uniform without shading. — subsp. nubicola Fruhst. is very small nubicola. 
similar to persica Bien. but without yellowish tinge on the upperside: the greenish spots on the underside 
of the hindwings are much paler than in moorei Bob. From Kashgar in Turkestan. amphimara Fruhst. amphimara. 
is an unusually large race flying in Szechuan. The upperside of the hindwings is similar to moorei Rob. but 
with scarcely a shade of black. - subsp. avidia Fruhst. shows prominent black markings on the upperside avidia. 
which reflect through more distinctly on the hindwings than in other races. The underside is pale. Tsingtau. 
8. Genus: Relenois Hbn. (Anaphaeis Hbn.) 
B. mesentina Cr. (Vol. 1, plate 21 d, e). lordaca Wkr. is the dry season form of India with pale yellow mesentina. 
underside (compare Vol. 9, p. 137). These as well as the 4 following forms are all described bv Gauckler from l °rdaca. 
Jerusalem. — var. taprobana Mr. has a wide black margin on the upperside of all wings and is coloured orange- taprobana. 
yellow on the underside. — var. aurigena Btlr. a rainy season form is dark yelloit to orange-yellow on the aurigena. 
underside of the hindwings. — $-ab. iris Gauckler is reddish white in the cell areas on the underside of the iris. 
hindwings with a mother-of-pearl-like iridescence. — ab. sulphurea Gauckler shows a greenish sulphur yellow sulphurea. 
on the upperside of all wings with wide black margins. Underside of all wings ochre yellow and similarly wide 
margined with black. - - var. $ turanica Shelj. has white upperside with considerably narrower, darker margins turanica. 
than Syrian specimens. There are white spots on veins 6 and 7. Undersides faintly yellowish-white with reduced 
black markings and ribs less strongly dusted with black. 
9. Genus: Syucliloe Hbn. 
S. callidice Esp. (Vol. 1, plate 21 e). ab. $ mezgeri le Charles has strongly reduced apical marks which 
are greyish, only the discoidal spot is a distinct black. On the underside all the black markings with the 
exception of the discoidal spot are pale on yellowish-green ground. Riffelalp in Valais. — (J-ab. atrovirens Roth. 
from the Grisons is an adumbrated form. The costa is widely dusted with black, also the veins 4 to 8 cunei- 
formly at the extremities. Submarginal spots form large blackish spots extending to the closing nervure of 
the disc. Veins of hindwings more heavily dusted with black. In cell 1 c there is a black streak extending 
to the outer margin. Underside still more dusky, almost uniformly grey-black. — ab. rondoui Vrty. (7 d). A 
splendid melanic pair from the Engadin. The underside of the hindwings is more or less completely black and 
the hindwings are a uniform nice green with scarcely perceptible streaks internervally. — (J-ab. magnomaculata 
Vrty. belongs to kalora Mr., it has an enormously enlarged discoidal spot in the forewings reminding one 
thereby of daplidice. Hunza, Hindukush. - hinducucica Vrty. is a form flying in Beik in Hindukush, it resembles 
kalora Mr. on the underside, but the green is paler, whilst the upperside is striking through its pure white and 
the intensity of the black markings as well as the blue-gi’ey scaling at the base of the wings. — A form flies 
in Amdo which has quite the appearance of an extreme orientalis but which differs through its larger size and 
the purer white: amdensis Vrty. 
callidice. 
mezgeri. 
atrovirens. 
rondoui. 
magnoma¬ 
culata. 
hinducu- 
cica. 
amdensis. 
S. dubernardi Oberth. (Vol. 1, plate 17 f). (J-ab. parva Vrty. is a small form in which together with a dubemardi. 
reduction in size there is also a decrease of the black markings. — In ab. punctata Vrty. well developed dark P arvc 
~ r u 1 punctata. 
spots decorate the wing internervally before the margin. — rothschildi Vrty. (7 c) flies in the Tsingling Mountains, rothschildi. 
it has a neater more elongated wing contour with considerably increased and enlarged dark markings which, 
especially in the $ make a dusky impression through a dispersion of black scales. 
S. chumbiensis Nic. (Vol. 1, plate 20 e). The form flying in Gyantse in Thibet creates a paler race, chumbien- 
The ground colour on the underside of the wings is pale straw colour. The veins are narrowly surrounded with sls ‘ 
light grey in some specimens having a lilac hue. The orange coloured spot at the base of the wings is scarcely 
perceptible. Both sexes have almost the same marking: this is subsp. gyantsensis Vrty. gyantsensis. 
