ARGYNNIS. By M. Gaede. 
of both wings. — j-nigruni Tutt (= interligata Cab.). The 2 black spots on middle of inner margin of forewings j-nigrum. 
merged horizontally. — triangularis Rev. Like j-nigrum without more detailled description. goetgheburi triangularis. 
(recte goetghebueri) Lamb. Black spots on upper and underside prolonged to points, marginal spots merged goetgheburi. 
in pairs, the small spots at apex larger and triangular. Base of both wings pale greenish. - Names for melanotic 
specimens are melaena Spul., erebina Oberth .; hungarica Aign., the latter varying however by having normal 
hindwings. — According to Verity the typical locality for lathonia is Sweden. The race there is small and pale. 
- fiorens Vrty. Larger and brighter than typical. The 1st generation still resembles the northern, in the 2nd florens. 
and 3rd generations the difference is greater. These are larger and with much brighter colours. The greenish 
black cloud on upperside at base is more or less absent. Typical of Florence. — Nevertheless transitions to the 
northern form occur in Tuscany: emiflorens Vrty. — The 2 asiatic races are pale: messoa Fruhst. much larger emiflorens. 
than the europeans. Underside with even larger silvery spots than in isaea Gray (Vol. 1, pi. 69 a). Ta-tsien-lu. messoa - 
sheljuzhkoi Std. Black markings of upperside much reduced. Underside with less silver and less rusty sheljuzhkoi. 
coloured spots. Wing contour more truncate. Hi district. isaea Gray is, according to Reuss a different isaea. 
species from lathonia through the genitals. isaeoides Reuss is like a large lathonia , not a large isaea. Szechuan, isaeoides. 
Perhaps like messoa Fruhst. 
A. elisa Godt. (Vol. 1, p. 236, pi. 69 b). The typical form from Sardinia is illustrated in Vol. 1. 
elisa. 
stechei Vogt is larger. Fore wings more brilliant, darker. Underside of hindwings darker, the green colour turned stechei. 
brownish. Corsica. 
A. aglaja L. (Vol. 1, p. 236, pi. 69 b). Besides the pale forms already enumerated in Vol. 1, there are aglaja. 
still to be named: albomaculata Rbl. with silvery grey to white spots. — molybdina Newnh. Ground colour albo- 
buff, all other markings of upperside silvery. - susamia Steph. is leathery yellow on hindwings, black spots 
thereon widely surrounded by white. - aurantiaca Reuss with light golden yellow ground colour. — Now the susanna. 
dark forms: neoarctica Reuss. Both wings dark on upperside at base. All the otherwise green spots on underside aurantiaca. 
are olive brown to red-brown, viridiatra Strd. is dark coffee-brown, probably like sujfusa Tutt and a transition neoarthca - 
to emiliae Quens. mentioned already in Vol. 1. - hindenburgi Schuster differs from the. latter by also having hindenburgi. 
a black underside, only the silvery spots still slightly reflect through. - According to Verity the typical race 
occurs in Sweden. It occurs there together with borealis Strd. and specimens like those from central Europe. 
The races from S. Tyrol and the Tessin are not yet named. — In the Maritime Alps the species is much larger, 
richer reddish yellow, black markings reduced. The silvery markings on underside more extensive: locuples locuples. 
Vrty. (= locupletata Vrty.). Specimens from Geneva and the Simplon look slightly different. =— emilocuples emilocuples. 
Vrty. is a gradation between locuples and specimens from Sweden. Typical of Berlin; this form also occurs in 
the South of England, whilst in Scotland we find the Swedish. Nevertheless a race from there is named: - 
scotica Wath., as of course identically the same specimens do not occur at different altitudes. Larger than scotica. 
typical. The black markings on upper and undersides bolder. Lhiderside with darker green, silvery spots larger. 
$ very dark with whitish submarginal spots. Sutherland. — In mid-Italy the species becomes smaller. The 
black markings often as faint as in vitatha Mr. (Vol. 1, pi. 69 c): -- apenninicola Vrty. A and $ scarcely differing apennini- 
in colour. The spot below the costa on forewings always small or absent. Much more uniform than the bright 
coloured northern specimens. Piceno (Apennines). — From Spain we have methana Fruhst. $ strikingly pale in methana. 
the outer half of both wings in comparison with german or alpine specimens, the black median spots larger, 
submarginal silvery lunules smaller. Upperside lighter than german specimens, black markings daintier, 
especially at margin of hindwing. Sierra Guadarrama. — mirabilis Sag. Very large with bold colouration, very mirdbilis. 
variable. Aragon. — In Asia we have firstly anxo Jach. Large, black dots larger, base of hindwings darker, A a nxo. 
upperside rich yellow-red; $ darker with violet or greenish sheen. Pjatygorsk. North Caucasus. — Then new 
races are only established much further eastwards: — valesinoides Reuss. Coloured like a brown valesina Esp. vatesinoides. 
The type is illustrated as from Kashmir, the spots on costa of forewing and marginal spots of both wings almost 
white. — ashreta Evans is the high altitude form of vitatha Mr. Larger, brilliant yellow-red, $ dark and often ashreta. 
dusted with violet. S. Cliitral at 2000 — 3000 m altitude. — yopala Fruhst. Upperside especially of $ very yopala. 
dark. A white spot on costa of forewing behind the cell. White centres to the 2 anterior black spots of the 
outer row.' White spots in the band of cone-like marks before the margin. Perhaps this is a transition to the 
form valesinoides from Kashmir already described. — kenteana Stich. Especially dark $ from Transbaikal, kenteana. 
possibly with right of priority over yopala and valesinoides. taldena Fruhst. Very like european aglaja and taldena. 
not the western Chinese bessa Fruhst. (Vol. 1, pi. 69 b). No spots on upperside of hindwing, underside with 
normal silvery spots in pale grass green ground. Yellow-brown submarginal area as narrow as in bessa. Ta- 
tsien-lu. — plufus Oberth. from the same district is totally different. The round black spots of both wings larger, ylutus. 
the middle row on forewings narrower. No silver on underside of apex of fore wings, brown spots before the 
margin on hindwing. Ta-tsien-lu. — claviniacula Flats. Differing from fortuna Jans, by the black ap ex,clnvimacula. 
disco-cellular spot formed about like a “6”; middle band of hindwings more dentate. The silvery spot in middle 
of cell on underside of hindwings is missing. Corea. — graeseri Kardak. Very large, ground colour more crude graeseri. 
reminding one somewhat of myoniae Fruhst. from Japan. Ussuri. — sachalinensis Mats. (= matsumurai Nakah.). sachalinen- 
Like selene Schiff. Luniform spots at outer margin of forewings. L T pperside of hindwings with larger spots and 
wider bands, on underside each in cellules 2—6 a silvery white spot with brown ringlet. Sachalin. — ofaniana otaniana. 
Mats, has a wider margin on both wings than sachalinensis and therein a row of small yellow spots. Base and 
sis. 
