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Show 1886.] MR. H. J. ELWES ON THE GENUS PARNASSIUS. 1 !) SECT. IV. 12. DELI'IIIUS, Ev Mont. Tarbagatai, Altai, &c. Var. la. staudingeri, Bang-Haas.... Mont. Bokhara, Khokand, &c. 13. STOLICZKANUS, Feld Prov. Lahoul, N.W, Himalaya, Ladak. SECT. V. 14. IIARHWICKEI, Gray Himalaya 6000-14,000 ped. alt. Ab et var. § vix nom. conserv. Prov. Ladak. charino, Gray (obscurior). SECT. VI. 15. CHARLTONIUS, Gray Prov. Lahoul, N.W. Himalaya. Prov. Ladak, supra 11,000 ped. alt. SECT. VII. 16. IMPERATOR, Oberthur Ta-tsien-lo, Tibet or. SECT. VIII. 17. TENEDIUS, E V Sib. cent, mer., prov. Amur sup. SECT. IX. 18. MNEMOSYNE, Linn , Europe (excl. reg. pol. et Anglia), Asia occ. et cent. Var. a. ? nubilosus, Chr Armenia, Persia bor. Var. vel transitus ad stubbendorfi. Prov. Amur sup. Var. b. ? an bona sp. stuhbendorfii, Prov. Amer. sup. et inf. Men. Var. c. vel trans, ad glacialis Corea. 19. GLACIALIS, Butl Japan. citrinarius, Motsch. 20. EVERSMANNI, Men. Prov. Transbaikal, Amur sup., Prov. Alaska. a. Var. ? felderi, Brem Prov. Amur cent. b. Var. ? thor, H. E d w Yukon Eiver, N.W. America. 21. CLODIUS, Men Mont, et litt., N.W. America. a. Var. ? menetriesi, H. E d w Mont. Sierra Nevada, California. 22. CLARIUS, Ev Mont. Altai ?, Tarbagatai. 23. NORDMANNI Mont. S.W. Caucasus, Daghestan. The two species marked f are only provisionally placed in the sections of the genus, as the female pouches are unknown. The varieties marked with a ? are those which do not seem from my present knowledge to be sufficiently well marked to be always recognizable. P A R N A S S I U S A P O L L O , Linn. This is the best known and one of the most widely distributed species of the genus, and is found in almost all the mountain districts of Central and Southern Europe, from about 1000 up to nearly 6000 feet in the Alps, and in many parts of Northern and Eastern Europe at quite low elevations; in the Caucasus according to Wagner up to 8000-9000 feet, in Southern Sweden and Norway, in Finland close to the sea-coast, in the hilly sandy pine-forests of the Lower Ural and Central Russia, in the higher mountains of Spain, Greece, and Asia Minor, and in some of the mountain-ranges of Northern Turkestan and the Altai, though its distribution in Asia is not yet perfectly known. In some parts of Germany it has become extinct of late years, 2* |