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MELITAEA. By M. Gaede. 
white, marginal lunules with fine black surrounds. Hindwings brick-red with black veins and yellow-white 
bands, of which the individual spots have fine black surrounds similar to maturna , but larger. The very arched 
middle band is not longitudinally intersected by a black line. A small white isolated lunule before the margin 
below vein 2. Siao-lu. 
iduna. M. idima Dalm. (Vol. 1, p. 213, pi. 65 b). Specimens from Delbo, Helsingland closely resemble the race 
sajana B.-H., iduna from Quickjock is much darker. 
cynthia. 
impunctata. 
reducia. 
leucophryne 
iricolor. 
aurinoides. 
privata. 
obseurior. 
variegata. 
mundata. 
brunneo- 
marginata. 
drenowskii. 
leonhardi. 
aumnia. 
M. cynthia Hbn. (Vol. 1, p. 213, pi. 65 b, c). — impunctata Hoffm. has no black dots on upperside of 
hindwings in the fuscous band. — reducta Vorbr. The dark middle band of forewings faint or missing, 
leucophryne Schaw. Prominent white marginal spots on both wings. tricolor $ Schaw. Further pale yellow 
markings besides the brown and black bands in middle and at outer margin. Ground colour greenish-yellow, 
aurinoides 2 Kiefer. The red-brown band of spots continuous on both wings. Base of hindwings heavily black. 
All otherwise white spots on forewings are pale ochre-yellow here, smaller; the red-brown spots normal, "black 
margins. Yellow spots of hindwings still more reduced. Underside normal. A $ of same, that combines pallida 
Spul., impunctata Hoffm. and aurinoides is named privata Std. obseurior $ Hofer is a small dusky $ from 
low altitude (700 m). — New races are: variegata Trti. & Vrty. Brightly coloured specimens, as the name denotes. 
In some, one or more of the rows of spots in the discal area are absent and these are called mundata Trti. <0 
Vrty. Valdieri. - brunneomarginata Kiefer. Distinguished by extensive black marking and brown marginal 
spots on hindwings. Admont. drenowskii Rob. The yellow submarginal band on upperside wider, the 
individual spots less sharply outlined. Base of both wings paler than in cynthia and pallida Spul. Underside 
halfway between these. Rhodope. — The same author alters the name pallida Spul. into spuleri Rob. 
According to the Pungeler Collection pallida (which according to Rober also occurs in a local form in the 
Maritime Alps) has white marginal spots on both wings, also the next row is somewhat whitish. In one from 
the Rhodope Mountains both rows are yellowish-red on forewings and wider; marginal spots on hindwings white. 
leonhardi Fruhst. (13 c) from the same locality and therefore probably identical, even though the description 
reads differently: In the all red-brown markings more extensive than in Swiss specimens. Also in the $ 
red-brown submarginal band double as wide as in specimens from the Engadin. On underside almost pure 
white instead of yellowish bands and spots. 
M. aurinia Rott. (Vol. 1, p. 213, pi. 65 c). The compilation in regard to this collective species can still 
be only provisional, as since the first Volume was published, the forms dealt with therein of merope Prunn. and 
desfontainii Godt. have been separated as independant species. This has not been taken into consideration in 
description of new races and aberrations. A definition “like merope ” indicates little, as one cannot be certain 
that the authors in question are actually acquainted with merope; the opposite is the more probable. — The 
number of newly denominated aberrations is enormous: nana Rehfous is the inevitable dwarf form. — More or 
less pale forms are: leucophana Cab. The black markings normal, but ground colour of forewings yellowish- 
white, hindwings normal. gracilens Cab. Both wings uniform yellow-red, the black lines more or less extinct. 
deficiens Cab. The outer black line on upperside of hindwings extinct; the form in which all the bands of 
hindwings are extinct has not yet been named. — impunctata Schultz. The black central dots are absent in the 
fuscous marginal band on upper and underside of hindwings. diluta Heinr. The black lines on forewing very 
fine partly extinct (see provincialis). mamurensis Lamb, has a deeper yellow-red ground colour. Similar to 
didyma. Without the yellowish spots on both wings. Fore wings and hindwings with wide black margins, 
inwardly somewhat undulate. fulvacea Cab. is a somewhat paler namurensis. brunnea Tuft has brownish 
ground colour without yellow or red admixture, ochrea Tutt is similar; in praeclara Kan. the straw-yellow and 
red spots contrast strongly from the black bands, which are narrow in discal area. - The following forms are 
darker: virgata Tutt (= transversa Cab.) with wider black middle band on forewings. perianthes Cab. has 
white dots in the deep black marginal band of hindwings. - nigrolimbata Schultz has a wide black margin also 
on forewings. — atricolor Schultz. Forewings black with red-brown spots before the outer margin. With rusty- 
recl spots with black centres on hindwings; semifuscata Gab. is probably the same. — In epimolpadia Rev. there 
are a few red-yellow spots in the cell of both wings, otherwise like atricolor. catherinei Le Charles is an 
epimolpadia with wide yellowish-white submarginal band on forewings. The following names for variations 
of underside: sesostris Schultz. The yellow-white patches on hindwings are absent. — sebaldus Schultz. The 
outer orange-red band is diffuse or absent, also the black dots therein may be absent. On the other hand the 
base is often dark. — geminifasciata Cab. has a further yellow band next to the typical outer band on hindwings. 
scotica B.-H. (13 c). The northernmost race differs from hibernica on hindwings by small round, not luniform 
yellow submarginal spots, less pronounced on forewings. On underside of hindwings the lemon yellow margin 
is wider. Scotland (Oban, Carlisle). - The south English race amglicana Fruhst. differs from hibernica Birch 
(Vol. 1, pi. 65 d) from Ireland by more diffuse black bands on forewings and smaller black spots between the 
veins on hindwings. Instead of yellow spots as in hibernica they are dusky ochreous. Nearest to it are many 
acedia, bulgarica and balcanica\ - acedia Fruhst. $ with large regular submedian spots. In the 9 the pale area on 
forewings is more extensive. The black and red-brown patches are missing, so that it resembles davidi Oberth. 
leucophana. 
gracilens. 
deficiens. 
impunctata. 
diluta. 
namur¬ 
ensis. 
fulvacea. 
brunnea. 
praeclara. 
virgata. 
perianilics. 
nigrolim¬ 
bata. 
atricolor. 
epimol¬ 
padia. 
catherinei. 
sesostris. 
sebaldus. 
gemini¬ 
fasciata. 
scotica. 
anglicana. 
