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slight bulge towards the middle of the wings. Red a brilliant bright carmine with a slight yellow admixture 
(some specimens show a yellowish fold area of hindwings). No trace of minium. Black parts of wings with 
dull blue gloss, much more finely and densely scaled than alpina. Only a few of the BB show a greenish gloss 
in the basal area of forewings, whilst the majority of $$ show same. The specimens illustrated are from the 
collection of Burgeff. ab. flavinrubra Bgff. has yellowish red colouration, having a regular mosaic of yellow 
and red scales and cannot be mistaken for the usual yellowish red form of aurantiaca. — Besides we have var. 
jurassoboica Bgff. from the districts around Reichenhall and Berchtesgaden, which approximates closely to 
splugena, but which has considerably narrower and even more strikingly pointed wings. Spots are large, in 
the SB apical spots close together, in the $$ approximately in the degree of 1 to 3 confluent. Localities of 
splugena and jurassoboica are so widely separated, that a geographical relationship cannot easily be established, 
especially as the Inn Valley, that separates the two localities, is the habitat of alpina. 
II. Central Group: In subsp. hippocrepidis Hbn. (= astragali Spul.) from Thuringia (Jena), 
southern Hanover, Lower Franconia, Neckar Valley, the wings, in comparison to astragali are more pointed, 
the spots more or less angular, 5 and 6 often confluent. The colouration and the superficial gloss are much duller 
and with a somewhat slighter admixture of vermilion; scaling considerably less dense. The following aberrations 
are named: ab. rubescens Bgff. (Weilderstadt in Wuerttemberg, Jena): spot 1 on costa of fore wings is elongated, 
the other spots incline towards diffusion; ab. huebneri Bgff. the inversely marked form (illustrated by Huebner); 
ab. eimgulata Bgff. with red abdominal belt; ab. flava ( Kaufmann) Bgff., yellow instead of red. — The var. 
jurassicola Bgff. (= jurassica Bgff., praeocc.) (4 f) differs from hippocrepidis by its relatively shorter and wider 
wings, with which in most specimens we find a simultaneous reduction of spot 6. Further jurassicola varies 
by the shade of red being rather more brownish or yellowish. Swabian Alb (Geislingen on the Steige), 
franconian Jura (Eichstatt, Bavaria). The B illustrated was taken at the Teck (Swabian Alb). Here we have 
ab. flava Kaufmann (4 f) from Hohenneuffen (Swabian Alb), yellow instead of red; ab. brunrseafa Przegendza 
from the Altmuhl Valley, pale to dark brown instead of red; ab. alpirtoides Reiss, rosy with small spots, spot 6 
reduced in size, hindwings with heavy black margins; ab. eimgulata Bgff. (see above) and ab. totirubra Reiss 
(4 f) from the surroundings of Ulm with quite red forewings, only the apex and a narrow border at outer margin 
being black. — The hybrid flamrmula Bgff. was bred by Burgeff, being a cross between astragali B and 
jurassicola $. — Further the var. allgaviana Bgff. (= jurassica Bgff.) from the Algau Alps (Oberstdorf) which 
differs from jurassicola by the generally somewhat wider black margins to hindwings, but chiefly by the 
absence of the heavy green or blue gloss of the black parts of forewings, the dull black instead of glossy body 
and the longer scaling and hairs. Among these we find ab. eimgulata Bgff. 
Joining up here we have the subsp. centralis Oberth. in Vol. 2, p. 442 as ab. (4 g) from Central and 
S.W. France (asJype race), neighbourhood of Paris, Pont de TArche, Chartres, in July; the Pyrenees, Catalonia, 
New Castile. Smaller than alpina, red more vermilion colour. Spots 5 and 6 confluent, occasionally all spots 
conjoined. The specimen illustrated is from Burgeef’s collection. Aberrations are: ab. nigricans Oberth. in 
Vol. 2, p. 23, (= brunnea Dziurz.) and ab. flava Oberth., yellow instead of red. — The following races are 
described: var. ceritripyremaea Bgff. (= alpina Oberth.), differing from centralis by more truncate apex, especially 
of hindwings, duller colouration, heavier margins to hindwings and very long hairs on abdomen together with 
unusually long fringes to the wings. High Pyrenees (Vernet les Bains). — var. centricataloniae Bgff. (4 f) with 
much narrower and more pointed wings than specimens from the Pyrenees, with very dense scaling, deeply 
blue or green glossy with brilliant vermilion red spots and hindwings. Body smooth, but inner angle of hindwings 
often with long fringes. Spots small, 5 and 6 in fifty per cent of the specimens being confluent. Relatively deep 
black margins to hindwings. Catalonia (Mount Serrat; Mount Tagamanent, 50 kms north of Barcelona). The 
specimen illustrated is from the Collection of Bitrgeff. — var. philippsi Romei (4 g) from New Castile (Cuenca), 
Huelamo, 1200 m, is the same size and colouration as the former, but spots 5 and 6 are separate and the 
margins of hindwings are narrower. The specimens illustrated were collected by O. Querci, the £ illustrated 
inclines to be confluent. — var. hispana Vrty. based on a single specimen with locality label “Valencia” and 
therefore rather doubtful, looks similar to a typical sorrentina; the 6 spots of fore wings have white circum¬ 
scriptions. — Burgeff gives the name of var. aestivoprovincialis to a provincialis (see below) form occurring in 
the summer (July) in the neighbourhood of Marseilles which is double as large and with much wider wings. — 
The var. provincialis Oberth. (Vol. 2, p. 442 as ab.) flies in September and is a pronounced autumn race from 
the delta of the Rhone and Var. 
Here follows subsp. occidental^ Oberth. (4 g) (Vol. 2, p. 442 as ab.) from West France (Charente, Vendee, 
in May and in August). The specimen illustrated is from Auzay. Red vermilion colour. Spots often enlarged 
and consequently touching. Spot 6 attached to spot 5. There is an inclination to the formation of a red 
abdominal belt. Hindwings with narrow black margins. In ab. vertebralis Le Charles from Aignes the upperside 
of abdomen is scaled throughout the middle with red. The ab. cingulata Hirschke (= micingulata Oberth., 
semicingulata Seitz) and ab. miltosa Cand. belong here. The names vigei Oberth., rosea Oberth., pallidior Oberth. 
(Vol. 2, p. 442) are withdrawn. 
Supplementary Volume 2 - 0 
flavinrubra. 
jurasso¬ 
boica. 
hippo¬ 
crepidis. 
rubescens. 
huebneri. 
cingulata. 
flava. 
jurassicola. 
flava. 
brunneata. 
al pi no ides, 
cingulata. 
totirubra. 
flammula. 
allgaviana. 
cingulata. 
centralis. 
flava. 
centri- 
pyrenaea. 
centri- 
cataloniae. 
philippsi. 
hispana. 
aestivopro¬ 
vincialis . 
provincialis. 
occidentalis. 
vertebralis. 
