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Addenda: POLYGONIA; ARASCHNIA; MELITAEA. By M. Gaede. 
orichalcea. 
nigroflava. 
flavo- 
maculata. 
reich- 
stettensis. 
elongana. 
erebina. 
alba. 
gerardii. 
aestia. 
umbraia. 
alpicola. 
semigriseis. 
jubilaris. 
rubro- 
fasciata. 
rom ula. 
Prussia such specimens are frequently captured. — orichalcea du Bois-Reym. is the race from the narrow 
tongue of land separating the Haff bay from the Baltic sea. It has a dull yellow brassy ground colour and 
transition forms are found at Konigsberg. The specimens are smaller than normal and the markings are not 
so intensive and dark. Slevogt mentioned in 1910 having captured similar specimens in the Baltic Provinces. 
nigroflava Biezanko has a row of large black spots immediately before the outermargin of forewings and 
next to same on inner side a row of yellow lunules. The yellow spots on costa of forewings are larger than 
normal and lighter. On costa of hindwings the yellow spot is almost as large as the black one. On outer 
margin next to the blue spots there is also a row of large black spots. 
V. antiopa L. — flavoniaculata Masl. has a yellow spot on upperside of hindwings in the same position 
as in polychloros, it is smaller than the uppermost blue spot and is situate about equally high. 
11. Genus: Polygonia Hbn. 
P. c-album L. In this species in Vol. 1, p. 207 we described a form reichenste.ltensis Buhl. According 
to v. d. Goltz it should actually be named reichstettensis Fettig. — elongana Cab. is a deformed specimen with 
long, narrow forewings of pale colour. The normally shaped hindwings are brownish red, the black spots are 
more indistinct than normal. The yellow marginal spots of forewings are less distinct, on hindwings small 
but distinct. 
P. gigantea Oberth. In this species a very dusky specimen is named: erebina Oberth. Upperside of 
hindwings is also blackish and with scarcely any markings. On middle of forewings there are 2 yellow-red 
spots retained in the ground colour and a few semi-extinct light patches at apex. 
12. Genus: Arascknia Hbn. 
A. levana L. — In alba Zobel the yellow-red patches of upperside are pure white, the black markings 
bold, not diffuse. On underside the light markings are more yellowish, the violet paler. — gerardii Oberth. 
is almost uni-coloured black-brown on forewings. Only 3 white submarginal spots and above same 2 white 
dots close to costa are left of the markings. Hindwing is also black-brown from base to close of cell and 
at costa and abt. 2 mm wide at outer margin, the remainder milky white. A quite similar specimen is illustr¬ 
ated in the Berlin Entomological Paper, Vol. 54, pi. 1, Fig. 13. 
13. Genus: Melitaea F. 
Iff. maturna L. The species is rare in E. Prussia and only periodically more frequent at certain locali¬ 
ties. These specimens were previously held to be wolfensbergeri Frey (from the High Alps) or urbani Hirsch 
(from the Salzach Valley). On account of the entirely different locality the name aestia du Bois-Reym. seems 
justified. The specimens are duller than type, more unicoloured and heavily adumbrated. The $ is generally 
smaller. The form has been found hitherto in the famous Frischings Moor, in Moosbruch and a few other 
localities. 
If/, cynthia Hbn. — umbrata Calv. denotes specimens with grey-brown uppersides of forewings without 
any white spots. In the middle cell there are 2 red-brown spots and also remnants of a red-brown band. 
Base of hindwings is grey with a few white patches. — alpicola Galv. is the race from the higher Alps in 
Salzburg, Tyrol and Switzerland. The white markings vary in extent in <$, the bands of spots incline to be 
impoverished. The red-brown spots of middle cell are not striking, the marginal spots are white, grey or 
brown. The is paler, rarely with white discal band. The ground colour of underside of wings is less bril¬ 
liant red with narrow yellow bands. The normal form from lower altitudes is larger and more brightly marked. 
Iff. aurinia Rott. — semigriseis Cab. has normal forewings. Hindwings are blue on upperside, the 
black markings are grey and the fuscous submarginal band is yellow. 
Iff. cinxia L. — To the aberrations of underside we have to add jubilaris Cab. On hindwings the 
normal black spots in the yellow discal band here form a striking almost completely transverse band. 
Iff. phoebe Knock. Here it must be stated that Verity no longer considers, as stated on p. 208, 
that bethune-bakeri is synonymous with guevara Fruhst. It occurs in Andalusia and Cuenca. I had no descrip¬ 
tion of same and Verity also does not mention the distinctive features of the two forms, bethune-bakeri is 
often wrongly classified as occitanica Stgr., but here again no differences are mentioned. — ab. rubrofasciata 
Gussich has no black discal bands on upperside of both wings. Base of hindwings is black with a fairly long 
rust-coloured spot. Outer margin is widely black. On underside only the black marking in discal area of hind¬ 
wings is absent. 
Iff. didyma 0. On p. 210 it was stated according to Verity that the 2nd generation of romana Calb. 
was identical with caldaria Vrty. Later the name of roniula Vrty. was given to same and this also was 
