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LYCAENA. By Chr. Bollow. 
brunnea. 
caerules- 
cens. 
caeruleo- 
marginata. 
albo- 
nmrginata- 
brunnea. 
coerulea,. 
inornaia. 
demaculata. 
unipuncta. 
pauci- 
puncta. 
elongata. 
extenta 
radiaia. 
costa- 
juncta. 
retropuncia. 
limbo- 
juncia. 
subtus- 
radinla. 
misera. 
astragali- 
phoru. 
should belong to them. Spttler separates according to the colouration as ab. brunnea all such $9 which have 
no blue suffusion and no distribution of blue scales; he justifies this procedure by stating that the illustration 
of Bergstrasser showed a $ with blue scaling. — In the $ ab. caerulescens Gr.-Grshm. the fore wings are 
sky-blue with a wide black margin. On underside ocelli are small and the submarginal shows large white 
triangular lunae. From Nishnaja Saldo in the Urals. — ab. caeruleomarginata Lange has ocelli on upperside 
of hindwings circumscribed by blue instead of orange whilst the black row of dots on upperside of kindwings 
in $ ab. albomarginata Ebert have white surrounds. — $ ab. brunnea Courv. (= extincta Strd.) is quite browm 
on upperside and red marginal lunules are absent. - coerulea Strd. denotes $$ with normal colouration but 
they are said to belong to aegidion Meissn. which however as a rule also have blue dusted Markings of 
underside vary in ab. inomata Grund in such a way that the metallic markings before the outer margin are 
entirely absent on hindwings exactly as occurs in argus L. — $ ab. demaculata Strd. has the yellow-red lunae 
on underside of both wings extinct. — ab. unipuncta Grund is a C which shows only one basal spot on underside, 
a transition to caeca Courv. which is marked analogously to the forms already described. Of the forms 
established by Courvoisier the following have been found: ab. paucipuncta with reduced number of ocelli: 
ab. pluripuncta with supernumerary eyespots; ab. elongata Courv. with elongated arcuate eyespots; ab. extenta 
Strd. with cuneiform basal and arcuate eyespots; — ab. radiata with a confluence of marginal and arcuate 
eyespots; ab. costajuncta Courv. with a conjunction of the foremost arcuate eyespot with the corresponding 
basal eyespot of hindwing; ab. retropuncta Courv. with a confluence of basal and arcuate eyespots in the 3rd 
last hindwing cellule; ab. limbo juncta Courv. a confluence of one arcuate eyespot with the corresponding marginal 
lunule; ab. subtus-radiata Courv. with ray-like confluence of all spots on underside. — ab. misera Vrty. is a 
poorish specimen probably of the autumn generation from the neighbourhood of Florence. 
From Pfynwald in Thurgovia Vorbrodt describes in 1911 the race astragaliphora which is identical 
with nivca Courv. and nivea Oberth. $ is large, lustrous light blue on upperside, underside snow white, $$ 
unusually large, not under 28 mm wing expanse, with varying often very glossy blue dusting, however chiefly 
characterised by a coherent chain of yellow-red pointed spots to all wings from anal angle to apex. Under- 
vallesiaca. side is grey-yellow to yellow-brown. — vallesiaca Oberth. may be considered as belonging to subsp. calliopis 
Bsd. It occurs in the Rhone Valley in Valais. It is distinguished by a violet streak surrounded by the 
paler blue of the disc stretching from the discal cell of forewings, sometimes also of hindwings in cuneiform 
shape to the apex, often extending into the dark margin. — In northern France, Morbihan, Landes, Charente, 
but especially around Rennes we find subsp. armoricana Oberth. C is bluish violet on upperside with a parti¬ 
cularly fine black margin and white fringes. Ground colour of underside is grey with brownish tone and 
well developed markings. There are metallic black surrounded ocelli in the yellow submarginal band on 
hindwings. $ is brown on upperside with dark grey fringes and faint violet sheen at base of wings. Under¬ 
side somewhat paler brownish than all black spots and dots as in C but with paler surround. Orange 
band is wider than in C and the metallic blue ocelli therein more prominent on hindwings. occur having 
the basal half of the wings, especially the hindwings, scaled with blue. The race is larger than normal. 
armoricana . 
saturior. From Vernet-les-Bains in the east Pyrenees Verity describes the race saturior which according to 
his opinion is a mountain form of armoricana. It corresponds to the illustrations 261 and 262 in Oberthur’s 
Et. Lep. Comp. The upperside is very dark, margin of <$ unusually wide and black. — In Sierra Nevada and 
nevadensis. Sierra de Alfacar in southern Spain Oberthur discovered subsp. nevadensis which somewhat resembles <$ 
bellieri Oberth. from Corsica both in colouration and width of the black margin, whilst the underside varies 
considerably. Ground colour of same is a brownish tinged paler grey. Base of hindwings is suffused bluish- 
green to the row of 4 black basal spots widely encircled by white. Discoidal lunules and large black ocelli 
of the arcuate row of forewings are widely circumscribed by white. Orange band only narrow. Discoidal 
lunule on hindwings and the 2 upper dots of the discal ocelli are blackish with white ringlets whilst the 
remainder of the dots of the discal ocelli lie in a wide whitish band which extends to the orange coloured sub¬ 
marginal band. Blue ocelli are complete and very striking. Ground colour of $ is brown on upperside with 
grey-brown fringes and vivid orange lunae on margin of all wings. Underside almost as in $ only the bluish- 
green dusting is missing at base of hindwings and the blue ocelli in the orange band are still larger than 
vogelii. in <$. — From Taghzeft in the middle Atlas in Algeria a further race is reported viz: vogelii Oberth. with 
upperside of both sexes grey-brown, somewhat paler in $. Discoidal lunules are black and especially large on 
forewings, with faint white ringlets. Fringes checked white and brown. Black submarginal spots are edged 
by an orange coloured band which again is margined finely by black. Close to the outer margin there 
is a row of small whitish-blue sagittate marks lying internervally with the points towards the base. Underside 
is pale flax-grey with slight silvery sheen. Forewings with very large vivid black ocelli with white ringlets 
and the submarginal orange lunae have inwards and outwards black conical marks. These attach themselves 
to white sagittate marks towards the base. Body is brown on upperside with whitish hairs on underside. - 
Corsica, subsp. Corsica Tutt (= bellieri Oberth.) is generally of goodly size. of this race have the wide black 
margin typical of argus L., whilst the corsican argus have a narrow black margin of the typical argyrog- 
