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Dark purple butterfly12/31/2023 Egg cyhndrical, ribbed, yellowish or greenish, somewhat tinged with red. The distribution of the nymotypical subspecies with its aberrations is as follows : Central Europe, Southern England, southwards to Spain, North Italy, Dalmatia, Roumania, Bosnia Asiatic Russia, Asia Minor (Amasia). Very singly there occur in this species females in which tlie upperside is irrorated with golden scales, which are more condensed in the posterior area of the forewing and the anterior area of the hindwing this is ab. lutescens Schultz, only the female observed, the white bands and spots shaded with darker or paler brownish yellow likewise rarely met with at large. Everywhere rare among the main form, both sexes being known. In all transitions towards the main form, also asymmetric specimens occur occasionally with pale radiating smears in the distal area of the hind- wing. (50b, transition), the counter-part of the preceding: the white markings obsolescent except the subapical spots of the forewing, the latter also sometimes absent, the whole black wing-surface shot with blue. thaumantis Schultz,the white markings enlarged and widened, the elsewhere but feebly marked pale spots larger and sharper, especially at the margin of the hindwing, on the underside of the forewing the russet-red scaling restricted by the widening of the black markings in the hindwing the narrow dark marginal line is wanting, the white median band is more or less shaded with black so far only males have been found at large, and but rarely, also artificially produced by experiments with temperature. Of known aberrations the following have received names: ab. The nymotypical subspecies is somewhat variable individually, there occurring for instance males with a pure blue gloss (Hungary), instead of violet-blue, or with the white markings flushed with rosy red, the marginal band of the hindwing being cinnamon-brown. Female larger than the male, somewhat more broad-winged, brown, without blue gloss. (5()a) is shot with violet-blue in the male, and is distinguished by the white band of the hindwing bearing distally a sharp tooth at the anterior median vein the outer margin of the forewing is but slightly incurved below the apex.
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