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Underside with few silvery markings. Kansu. — intermedia Reuss is a form of subornatissima without silvery infermedia. 
markings. Peking. — subomatissimoides Reuss. Similar to ornatissima Leech in the plumules. Size approxi- .s/for¬ 
mating to niobe from Europe. Colour identical with subornatissima from East Asia, with a single plumule, nahsminy.- 
fiery orange. Underside with rich silvery markings on green ground. <$ and $ not inclining to adumbration. 
Ta-tsien-lu. The subform anargyra Reuss has no silvery markings on underside. Szechuan. — voraxides Reuss anargyru. 
(14 e) is also similar to ornatissima, upperside brilliant yellow-red. Underside of hindwings olive-green. Similar vora:r,,lrs 
to niobe, the silvery marking does not extend or only rarely extends to the anal margin of hindwings. Marginal 
markings sharply outlined like in niobe. Ussuri territory. — xanthodippoides Reuss is the form of this without rantho- 
silvery markings, from warmer regions. Upperside faintly greenish. Peking. — valesinoides-$ Reuss (14 c) dippouh-s. 
(illustration pi. 14 b = niobe-valesinoidis) is as large as gigantea St.gr. The black spots on upperside are relatively ' " 
heavier than in normal niobe, especially on hindwings. Ground colour of both wings dusky with the exception 
of few small patches. Underside of hindwings greener than in typical specimens. Corea. 
A. adippe L. (Vol. 1, p. 238, pi. 69 d). This species is now also named cydipjie L., Verity’s proposal adippe. 
to rename it esperi Vrty. has met with little support. - The number of new aberrations is relatively small. 
In extincta Bryk (14 c) the middle band of hindwings is absent, on underside the corresponding row of silvery extincta. 
spots diffuses inwards. varenii Holmgr. Forewings with black veins up to the apex. On hindwings the black, vcirenii. 
respectively brown spots are absent on upper and undersides; silvery spots reduced. — margareta Steph. has margareta. 
darker fuscous forewings with black ray-like markings near the margin. Hindwings with blue sheen, almost 
quite blackish, but with ray-like markings in pale ground colour at margin. - berolinensis Reuss is dusky, black berolinensis. 
with violet sheen. — cuneata Tuti has the large quadrangular black spot in the middle of underside of forewing cuneata. 
extended towards the base. — Under cleodoxa a specimen with deep fuscous ground colour is denominated as 
fulvescens Tutt, the band in which the small silvery spots are situated is especially dark. On the other hand the julvesceus. 
spots that replace the other silvery spots are dark ochre-yellow. — toroki Aign. Fore wings olive-green at base, toroid. 
a few brown spots on margin, otherwise velvety black, a light patch only in the cell. Hindwings olive-green in 
marginal area. Underside like a normal cleodoxa. — virgata Tutt has a fulvous band on underside of hindwings virgata. 
behind the centrar low of silvery spots. — mainalia Fruhst. (? = berecynthia Poda) is large, ground colour mainalia. 
deeper, resembling aglaja-locuples Btlr. Alpin. clarens Vrty. is smaller than the alpine races and those from darens. 
southern France. Upperside brilliant red-yellow, the black marking reduced especially in the $ like other 
Italian Argynnides. Underside rarely suffused with green, similar to chlorodippe from Spain. Typical from 
Florence but occurring from Turin to Calabria and also found in Barcelona. — Among the $$ of chlorodippe 
H.-Schdff. which are mostly yellowish there are also red-brown specimens: morena Rbb. from the Sierra de morena. 
Alfacar. adelassia Fruhst. Very large and fiery. Markings not diffuse on underside. Mentone. siciliensis adelassia. 
Reuss (14 c) classified to cleodoxa, is also fiery coloured with reduced black markings. Underside only pale tiensis. 
greenish-yellow; $ greenish on underside of hindwings in the region of the band of ocelli, however otherwise 
yellowish. — garcila Fruhst. is also a large but pale race. The black spots of upperside of both wings are small, garcila. 
Saratov. —- In Asia a considerable number of new races is described: thalestria Jack, is a richer red-yellow on thalestria 
both sides, black markings heavy. Underside uniform; hindwings yellowish, sometimes coppery at the inner 
margin, without any green sheen, maculae glossy silvery or yellow (as in the subform chalciope Jack.). Caucasus chalciope. 
and Transcaucasia. - formosa Krul. Ground colour ochre-yellow, spots black-brown. The costa on underside formosa. 
of forewings greenish-yellow, with browny-green spots. Hindwings pale yellowish-grey, especially at costa. 
Silvery spots poorly developed; bluish silvery dots in a few of the ochre coloured eyespots at the margin; 
yellow spots with silvery sheen and browny-greenish crescents at costa. From the Amur territory; possibly 
identical with pallida Btlr. — martini Reuss is a very large race with silvery spots on underside. Specimens martini. 
without silver are named bischoffi Reuss (14 d). Turkestan, tianschanica Alph. (enumerated in Vol. 1, p. 238 bischoffi. 
as tianchanica Stgr.) according to Fr. Wagner is a transition from adippe to chlorodippe in regard to the tianschani- 
colouring of the hindwings. The silvery spots are fairly large and in the $ often especially well developed. 
Tian-sban. juldana Reuss. The plumules are like those of niobe in the apical half and like those of adippe in juldana. 
the basal half. Exceptionally the notorious black spot occurs in the cell on the underside of hindwings, which 
otherwise oilly occurs in niobe. From the description of the author it would appear that the form described 
in Vol. 1, p. 238 would more correctly be denominated niobe-tianschanica. Consequently the name juldana 
becomes necessary for the adippe race. Tian-shan. No particulars are given as to how it differs from the niobe 
race. — taliana Reuss (14 e) is precisely like adippe in regard to the plumules. It differs from closely allied races, taliana. 
for instance pallescens, vorax through the shorter androconia stripes which do not extend beyond the outer 
border of the neighbouring black spots and end almost abruptly. Heavy silvery markings on underside of 
hindwings, a considerable patch also between the base of vein 8 and the cell; the one at end of cell heavily 
bordered with black on both sides. A spot also between veins 4 and 5 behind the cell. Tali, Szechuan. - 
stoetzneri Reuss (= leechi Wtk.) is closer to locuples Btlr. from Japan than to the Chinese vorax Btlr., of which stoetzneri. 
pallescens Btlr. is the paler form from the northern island. The coloured underside and rounder forewing 
correspond to vorax, but the <$ has distinct silvery marginal spots like locuples but smaller than taliana. 
Ta-tsien-lu. — niraea Oberth. (14 d) as nivaea is similar to the widely distributed cleodoxa 0. which has no niraea. 
silvery markings. Underside base of hindwings is more green, yellow patches thereby standing out more promin¬ 
ently. Probably a (previously denominated) taliana race. — riickerti Fruhst. Similar to ornatissima Leech ruckerti. 
and locuples. Upperside with deep blue-green sheen, the black submarginal spots on forewings particularly 
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