Piibl. 18. XII. 1930. 
LYCAENA. By Chr. Bollow. 
265 
L. osiris O. B.-H. from the Kagysman Mountains in Armenia flying on meadows at an altitude of osiris. 
2300—2500 m. Upperside a uniform black-brown without any markings, slightly darker than isis Stgr., only 
the black end cell spot is faintly visible. A $ has 2 yellow marginal spots on hindwings. Fringes are pure 
white without checking. Underside reminds one of eumedon Esp., but is paler brownish grey. Arcuate row 
on forewings consists of 6 large ocelli. Hindwings show a white streak, base of wings with metallic green dusting 
with 4 basal spots and yellow-red triangular marginal markings. 
oibscuraia. 
nigra. 
caerulea. 
praecocior 
oicles. 
impunctata 
costajuncta. 
multipunc- 
ta. 
unipuncta. 
tripuncta. 
occidental! s. 
L. baton Bgstr. (Vol. 1, p. 305, pi. 79 a) and allied forms have been minutely examined by Capt. A. E. baton. 
Hemming, abencerragus Pier, and vicrama Mr. hitherto deemed subspecies of baton have consequently been 
separated as distinct species. The formation of the androconia and differences in the genitals have brought 
about this separation of species. Such a thorough examination of a species and its forms cannot be too higaly 
welcomed and esteemed and forms an agreeable contrast to the claims of many well known authors when 
creating species, subspecies and aberrations on slight colour variations or quite negligible transpositions of 
markings. The following individual variations of baton are described: ab. obscurata Vrty. are extremely small 
$$ with distinctly brownish underside, — $ ab. nigra Hannem. is grey-black without any blue dusting and $ 
ab. caerulea Hannem. is completely suffused with blue. The two latter forms are from the neighbourhood of 
Berlin. — ab. praecocior Vrty. are $$ from the surroundings of Florence, which are so heavily covered with 
blue that it is difficult to separate them from <$. Probably caerulea Hannem. belongs to this form. — oicles 
Dannehl from the warm valleys of the Mendel and of Terlan is a larger summer form, pale grey with markedly 
bleached appearance, thinly scaled, so that markings of underside reflect through; marginal dots very large, 
somewhat diffuse, the yellow marginal band enlarged and often coherent. Margin black and very narrow. - 
ab. impunctata Skala is without basal eyespots. — According to the denominations of Courvoisier we have: 
— ab. costajuncta with conjoined anterior basal eyespot and anterior eyespot of arcuate row on hindwings; — 
ab. multipuncta with sup3rnumerary arcuate eyespots; — ab. unipuncta with only one basal eyespot and tri¬ 
puncta Courv. with 3 basal eyespots. — subsp. occidental^ Hemming from N. Portugal, Morocco and Algeria 
has a brownish gi'ey underside instead of bluish or whitish grey ground colour and with lighter checked fringes 
than name type form; orange lunae of the submarginal on hindwings more heavily developed and are more 
or less quadrate or wider than long, in contrast to baton. Ground colour of upperside of <$ is a dull blue, 
margin of fore wings narrow, black marginal spots of hindwings small; a black cell end spot on both wings. 
Upperside of $ shows a blackish brown, dusted with blue at base of wings. — Verity describes the race 
praepanoptes from Ambollas and Vernet-les-Bains in the East Pyrenees. It is halfway between baton and 
panoptes Hbn. (79 e) inclining more to the latter. However it has minutely small orange lunae on underside 
and besides it is larger than typical andalusian jMnoptes of average size. In the <$ the blue of the upperside 
extends to the fringes and the small black marginal dots are covered thereby. Underside shows a paler grey 
with small black dots. The $ has a faint blue tinge on upperside. — The race described by Ribbe as andalusica 
is nothing else than panoptes Hbn., whilst on the other hand orlaria Ribbe is a very rare modification of panoptes orlaria. 
(= andalusica Ribbe) showing a more or less very striking row of white spots at outer margin on upperside of 
forewings. — madriti Vrty. from Escorial near Madrid is said to be a larger race of baton, larger than the madriii. 
andalusian panoptes and characterised by extensive blue scaling on upperside of wings in <$$• Underside 
however just like panoptes, grey with large -black spots without a trace of orange. As however at Escorial we 
find other baton, identical with panoptes, this may be a more or less frequent modification. — The race albo- albonotata. 
notafa Sag. occurs in the Province Toledo, Saragossa, New Castile, at Escorial near Madrid, in Catalonia and 
beyond Spain in the Department of the East Pyrenees. It can be considered a transition from the name type 
form to panoptes. As the name indicates it has white streaks lying internervally near margin of wing on under¬ 
side; these chiefly occur in the $, but can also be found in the $, although they are less pronounced. With 
the characteristic white markings it reminds one somewhat of the rare orlaria of panoptes. The upperside of 
the $ is also lighter and more lustrous blue with narrower black margin, albonotaia differs from the name type 
form distinctly and can be immediately recognised by the absence of the orange lunae on underside of hindwings. 
praepanop¬ 
tes. 
L. abencerragus Pier. (Vol. 1, p. 305) is now considered a species and includes only the race famelica Seitz aben 
cerra- 
(79 e) of those described in Vol. 1, p. 305. The following new subspecies have also been classified to it: — amelia ame j- a gus ' 
Hemming from Alemtejo in Portugal, it is smaller than the other races of abencerragus', the wing contour is 
more rounded with a considerable reduction in the blue scaling on upperside of $ and with darker, more ashy 
grey ground colour of underside with larger basal spots and ocelli in the arcuate row. — A further subspecies 
cavazzae Romei from Sidi-Messri and Homs in Tripolitania shows a darker upperside of wings than in name cavazzae. 
type form, but not so dark as amelia. The marking of the spots on underside of hindwings is just as pronounced 
as that of forewings, thus reminding one of amelia. The ashy grey underside, whilst being paler than amelia 
is nevertheless darker than in name type form. — G. Kruger discovered the race coloniarum Trti. which is coloniarum. 
characterised by the extensive lustrous blue scaling of upperside of $. The fairly well developed ocelli of under¬ 
side remind one very much of cavazzae. In size it is somewhat smaller than abencerragus and rather larger 
Supplementary Volume 1 
34 
