LYCAENA. By Chr. Bollow. 
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more prominent than in name form. The $ is deep black-brown with slight traces of silvery blue scaling 
and a few silvery hairs at base besides having more or less pronounced white lunules. Underside somewhat 
paler grey than meleager. — alpiumclara Vrty. from the S. Tyrol is said to have still paler underside, alpium 
— ab. superlunulata Vrty. is a $ from Oulx with a row of pale grey lunules in front of the submarginal 
spots on hindwings and a row of similar spots on forewings. Ft forms a transition to Herrich-Schaffer’s 
Tig. 244—245. 
clara. 
super¬ 
lunulata. 
The race macra Vrty. occurs at higher altitudes in Tuscany, the Mainarde and in Sicily. It is smaller than macro,. 
name type, $$ are considerably darker but not so dark as steeveni Trie. dalmatina Wgn. from the neighbourhood dahnalina. 
of Zara in Dalmatia, described from 2 Upperside shows a wider black margin, which can extend to the end 
of cell. Anterior to margin of hindwings is a faint dark shadowy band. Underside of all wings is brownish 
without greenish dusting at base of hindwings. — The race marteniana Sag. from Santa Coloma de Queralt in mar- 
Spain has intensively blue showing only slight grey in disc and brown plumules. Margin is diffuse brown, 
extremities of veins black. The blue of the $ is sharply separated from the brown margin and fairly extensive. 
The description like all those of this author is in Catalonian dialect and it is difficult to obtain a precise 
translation. — subsp. oricus Fruhst. from S. Russia can be distinguished by the narrower black margin to wings, oricus. 
the paler underside of all wings and the considerably smaller black spots in the median area of hindwings from 
specimens from mid Europe and the northern parts of southern Europe. The chief difference however lies in 
the absence of both black basal eyespots on underside of hindwing. 
hybr. <$ meledamon Rbl. from Bisamberg near Vienna is said to be bred from meleager Esp. £ and mcledamon. 
damon Schiff. and this seems credible on account of the small size and the predominance of the dam,on charact¬ 
eristics. 
L. escheri Hbn. (Vol. 1, p. 314, pi. 81 a, b). —- The 9 ab. caerulescens Vorbr. is dusted with blue from 
base of wings to disc and closely resembles subapennina Trti. (Vol. 1, p. 314). — 9 ab. styx Trti. <£• Vrty. from 
Valdieri has a dark chestnut brown upperside without the vellow-red marginal lunules; underside normal, ab. 
albata Courv. from Berisal is completely white on underside. — ab. chryseis Trti. <V Vrty. from Vadieri has large 
golden yellow lunules up to apex on both sides in place of the yellow-red. — The ab. escherinus Rowl.-Br. is a 
9 with underside coloured a rich buff with irregular submarginal spots, two on the right and one on the left 
wing. The submarginal spots are absent on left hindwing, whilst on the right wing there is a single spot which 
is very small and close to anal angle. — ab. subfus-impuractaia Oberth. is a J without basal and arcuate eyespots. 
rostagnoi Stef, has no ocelli on underside with the exception of the discoidal lunule and the innermost (3rd) 
basal spot. — ab. radiata Oberth. (= radiata Siepi, valderiensis Strd., radiata Trti. <V Vrty.) shows a conjunction 
of all arcuate ocelli with the marginal lunules and eventually also with basal spots. — ab. novopuncta Courv. 
(= bipunctata Musch.) has two additional median ocelli. — subsp. rhaetica Vorbr. from Filisur has <$<$ with 
strikingly wide black margin and 9? with dark bluish black colour almost without orange spots. It has a 
slight resemblance to the blue subapennina Trti. Underside of $ is dark grey, of 9 very deep brown. Fre¬ 
quently one or two basal eyespots occur in 9 cm forewings, which otherwise escheri does not have. — var. 
helenae Oberth. has its home in the chalky plains of Charente-Inferieure around Dompierre-sur-Mer. Its underside 
is dark grey, almost brown in differing thereby from all other forms. The 9 has a very dark upperside of a 
warm rich brown, whilst the underside is slightly more grey-brown than and differs in this respect from all 
other races which throughout have a light creamy coffee ground colour. — The 9? of foulquieri Oberth ., the 
race from Provence are characteristic. They have a complete orange yellow submarginal band on fore wings 
from costal margin to hindmargin, consisting generally of 6 almost quadrate spots. — var. balestrei Fruh.st. 
from Moulinet near Mentone can be distinguished from all allied races by its prominent size. Upperside of q 
unusually light reminding one of dalmatica Speyr. (81 b). Underside is also very light with very outstanding 
black markings. The 9 R striking by its very wide red-brown submarginal band. — rondoui Oberth. is a small rondoui. 
race from the High Pyrenees, it is one third smaller than specimens from the estuary of the Rhone. The o 
is blue with slight greenish sheen in certain light; underside grey with strikingly small black spots. On the 
hindwings the small white patches around the black marginal dots are almost absent. Ground colour of 9 R 
dark brown with narrow blue basal dusting, which sometimes extends to the disc. Black marginal dots on 
hindwings distinct, the 3 to 4 anal spots finely outlined with grey outwardly, inwardly with small orange-red 
triangles. Fringes white in both sexes. - roseonitens Oberth. occurs as a race in the E. Pyrenees. Upperside roseonitens. 
of d 1 suffused with rosy blue, being mere transparent than all other races. Underside lively grey-white with 
very large black spots. Underside of 9 like pale creamy coffee but more vivid than foulquieri. Band of lunules 
is orange-red or yellow, varyingly wide, sometimes touching the costa of forewings. The 99 me very variable, 
but the character of the rosy tinge to the tone of the wings on upperside of £ seems common to all specimens. 
The race is generally of goodly size. —- ahmar Le Cerf on the other hand is a very small race from the Middle ahmar. 
Atlas of Djebel Ahmar and Tizi s’ Tkrine. The $ is still slightly smaller than southern french specimens and 
escheri. 
caeru- 
lescens. 
styx. 
albata. 
chryseis. 
escherinus. 
subins- 
impunctata. 
rostagnoi. 
radiata. 
novopuncta. 
rhaetica. 
helenae. 
foulquieri. 
balestrei. 
