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Addenda: MELITAEA. By M. Gaede. 
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applied to the 2nd generation of subpatycosana. It is smaller than the 1st generation and fuscous in and 
somewhat whitish or with rosy admixture in $ but not ochreous as the summer forms usually are. The 
black dusting at base is reduced and can also be absent. The same author has created an almost incalcul¬ 
able number of new forms. — rectealpirsa Vrty. as the author himself declares completely resembles typical 
didyma in the <$; the $ is like alpestris St.gr., at least it has the whitish ground colour of the latter. - 
superalpina Vrty. fr'om somewhat higher altitude, 2000 m, above Bormio, is somewhat deeper and duller in 
the ground colour of $ whilst the $ is suffused with a pale grey nebula, only costa of hindwings is still 
yellow-red. Otherwise the pale marking is darker, the black is more grey. — garumna Vrty. typical from 
Vernet-les-Bains in S.W. France is a race resembling oreithyia Fruhst. from Trieste. It is also large, but 
forewings narrower, fringes longer and whiter, markings contrast sharply. On the other hand the $ is paler 
with duller colouration and more yellowish especially on forewings. — postgarumna Vrty. typical of Garzac 
(Gironde) is the 2nd generation which is almost identical with typical didyma from Bohemia and only differs 
from same by the more yellow and paler yellow-red ground colour. It is less black on inner margin of hind- 
wings. — pyrenealpina Vrty. occurs not far from there in Gedre (High Pyrenees). The almost always is 
like subalpina Vrty. (Suppl. 1, p. 210) or also like armoricana Oberth., or even meridionalis St.gr., as all the 
black spots are small and all the wings suffused with grey except the costa of hindwings. It differs from 
ravalpina Vrty. (vide below) and meridionalis by the much deeper tone of grey. The $ resembles alpina and 
is very dusky. — subseilemis Vrty. from Mt. Aigoual in the Cevennes in accordance with its geographic 
occurrence is a mixture of seilemis Fruhst. (from the Maritime Alps) with subalpina Vrty. (from Susa). The 
cJ resembles subalpina, but is larger and more brightly marked, the $ resembles a small seilemis (from the 
Maritime Alps) by its wide forewings and bright markings but the black spots are smaller. This minute 
difference is said to justify the creation of the name. — praeniarsilia Vrty. serves to separate late specimens 
of the 1st generation of the race protea Vrty. (p. 210) from Tuscany because they resemble or are identical 
with marsilia Fruhst. through the reduction of the black spots and the paler more yellow tone of ground 
colour. The $ belonging hereto is a transition between subalpina and marsilia. The spots are medium large 
and numerous. The inner submarginal row is grey, sometimes the spots in the basal area have grey edges. 
Ground colour as in a marsilia $, varying completely from the more ochreous caldaria. This race is said 
to be distributed also in S. France, on the lower Piave and as far as Sofia. Later on it is to be presumed 
that new names will be created for these other localities. — The double name caldaria-marsilia Vrty. has 
been introduced for specimens from the locality of Nimes, Nice, Monferrato, Ponzone forming a mixture of 
caldaria and marsilia. To compensate for this the territory of marsilia is limited to St. Zacharie (600 m) and 
refers only to specimens having the individual spots of different sizes and with fuscous ground colour a 
richer and warmer shade. In the $ it is inclined to yellow-brown. —- microleopardafa Vrty. is now therefore 
utilised for specimens from Hep. Lot in which the spots are fairly uniformly large. They are of the 2nd 
generation. The spots are usually large and round on a dull ochreous ground. The race differs from leo- 
pardata Vrty. by its smallness and duller colour. The 1st generation from this locality belongs to rubida 
Vrty. and subrubida Vrty., typical of Saxony and Berlin. — magnaestiva Vrty. is a mixture race from the 
coast south of Montpellier. The 1st generation quite resembles patycosana Vrty. from the coastal regions of 
Tuscany and Liguria. The 2nd generation varies. It is very large like protea and romana (1st generation), 
the wings are almost as wide as in subpatycosana Vrty. The $ $ are generally identical with romana only the 
yellow-red ground colour is duller and more whitish. Some specimens are more like subpatycosana in ground 
colour and marking. Nothing is said about the — Specimens from the southern side of the Simplon are 
already known as tarlonia Fruhst. subtarlonia Vrty. denotes similar specimens which however are somewhat 
smaller and which occur above Lago Maggiore. Specimens of the 3rd generation from Tessin are named 
georgi Fruhst. According to Verity these are late emergences of the 2nd generation. The first consists generally 
of brilliantly coloured specimens on upper and undersides. On underside the black streaks are on pure white 
ground, they^are quite typical of didyma. In 25% of the specimens the black spots are less developed, yellow- 
red colour less deep. Some $$ are exactly as in Mid-Germany, others are like ala (Vol. 1, pi. 66 f). Probably 
the name ab. ignea Vrty. denotes these specimens, because no name would be necessary for specimens that 
are “quite like didyma ”. It is not at all clear which specimens the name denotes. The typical locality for 
same is Intra, so that ignea is much more likely to belong to subtarlonia than to georgi which occurs so far 
away. — atralpina Vrty. denotes the form from high altitudes in the Valais. Wings with heavy black scaling, 
the spots in submarginal area merge somewhat. The illustration of alpina in Vol. 1, pi. 66 f. is said to repre¬ 
sent this form. — Similarly a high altitude form of the southern Tyrol naina Fruhst. (p. 209) must be sub¬ 
divided. These are named ravalpina Vrty., typical from the upper Schnalsertal (no particulars are given of 
altitude). It is smaller than naina but nevertheless larger than rectealpina, otherwise the are exactly like 
naina. The $$ all more or less uniformly suffused with pale green-grey, exceptionally they are as dark as 
atralpina but not with such dark spot marking as alpina and also not only dark along the veins as atralpina. 
—• The race occurring in Trieste and Istria was wrongly designated by Stauder as persea Stgr. In the 2nd 
generation it is almost identical with marsilia , exceptionally somewhat like caldaria but differing through the 
larger size and the pale dull yellow tone like in the 1st generation of oreithyia Fruhst. from Dalmatia. In 
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rectealpina. 
super¬ 
alpina. 
garumna. 
post¬ 
garumna. 
pyrene¬ 
alpina. 
subseilemis. 
praemarsi- 
lia. 
caldaria- 
marsilia. 
micro- 
leopardata. 
magnaes¬ 
tiva. 
subtarlonia. 
ignea. 
air alpina. 
ravalpina. 
