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Butterflies and Moths in Nabokov's Published Writings By Work and Page Part 3: 1979-1999 This index does not include the butterflies and moths in Nabokov's strictly technical papers. The arrows [»] are hyperlinks to the corresponding entry in the alphabetical sections or to the biographical page. All stories are in this part, under »STORIES (1995).
STIKHI: "KAK LYUBIL YA STIKHI GUMILRVA!" (1979)
297 "I will die … with a heavenly butterfly in my net / on the summit of (some) wild hill"
"MEMOIR: ON REVISITING FATHER'S ROOM", by Dmitri Nabokov (London: Encounter, October 1979, pp. 77-82) 77 Often my parents and I would look into that miniature magic world [of Grammont, the mountain opposite of Montreux on Lake Geneva] and plan to take the tempting road that switchbacks up to the left sub-peak and curls into the meadows and hamlets of the alpine valley beyond, ... to see what butterflies were available ... We never did go 77 But here [on Nabokov's writing lectern], propped against the desk's rear parapet, is the unframed, faded, and dusty reproduction of Fra Beato Angelico's L'Annunziazone, ... with the rigid angel making his announcement on one knee. And, pencilled underneath in Father's minute, meticulous hand, referring to the angel's stylised rainbow wings: "A recollection of »Iphiclides podalirius with a slight dash of »Papilio machaon and perhaps a hint of the day-flying moth Panaxia quadripunctaria [»Euplagia quadripunctaria]. The two blackisch stripes on each 'wing' correspond to the pattern of I. podalirius in the natural position of rest *See Portman, Animal Forms, p. 110, NY 1967." [»Butterflies in Art] 77 For years he had longed to do that never-to-be book on »butterflies in art 77-78 Discovering a perfect »Vanessa atalanta concealed in a Brueghel bush thrilled him almost as much as discovering a rare mutant on the wing [»Butterflies in Art] 78 Here is an American dictionary with the national eagle on its olive-brown cover transformed into a magnificent furry »hawk-moth 78 There are boxes of notes, too, for the butterflies-in-painting book, and sketches of lepidoptera organs for scientific study [»Butterflies in Art] 80 He had a rich supply of [special observations and fleeting thoughts], carded away for future use, like unspread butterflies in opaque envelopes 80-81 The word "rural," or, better yet, its Russian equivalent derevenskoye, connotes to me (who, by choice, have never been to Russia): fields of grain, sudden patches of wild weed inside a copse, spirals of cow dung, a dirt road with a succession of puddles and damp patches over which blue butterflies must hover 82 [During DN's penultimate visit to Nabokov's bedside in a Lausanne hospital] Tears suddenly welled in Father's eyes. I asked him why. He replied that a certain butterfly was already on the wing; and his eyes told me he no longer hoped he would live to pursue it again
THE NABOKOV-WILSON LETTERS 1940-1971 (1979/2001)
#45=38old I managed to get into Harvard with a butterfly as my sole backer. I am catching a good deal of them here, chiefly »moths … the noblest sport in the world #59=49old Lycaeides anna Edw. [»Plebejus idas anna] #59=49old L. argyrognomon Bergstr. [»Plebejus idas] #59=49old cleobis Brem. [»Plebejus subsolanus] #59=49old Lycaeides melissa Edw. [»Plebejus melissa] #57=47old the poem… sorting out some butterflies … not the one referred to here in the poem] which is in New York and which I visited too [»Lysandra cormion] #76=64old Purple Emperor [»Apatura iris] #76=64old Emperor moth [»Saturnia pavonia] #66=55old everes comyntas [»Everes comyntas] #67=56old lotis [»Plebejus idas lotis] #67=56old scudderi [»Plebejus idas scudderi] #67=56old melissa [»Plebejus melissa] #69=58old »Cercyonis behri Grin. #69=58old Caleophrys sheridani Edw. [»Callophrys sheridanii] #69=58old Smerinthus [»Smerinthus jamaicensis] #69=58old Sphyngid (»hawk moth) #69=58old jamaicensis [»Smerinthus jamaicensis] #69=58old [... whether butterflies grow ... ] [»nymph] #78=66old »Lycaeides #85=72old Having sulkily pulled it [= Bend Sinister] out from under my butterfly manuscripts I discovered two things, first that it was good, and second that the beginning some twenty pages at least could be typed and submitted #85=72old An obscure paper on some obscure butterflies in an obscure scientific journal is another sample of Nabokoviana which will soon be in your hands #85=72old Papilio bunnyi [Bunny's butterfly} #90=77old »Lycaenidae #90=77old Lycaeides scudderi lotis [»Plebejus idas lotis] #95=82old »Lycaeides #100 a specimen from Havilah, Kern Co, Calif [»Plebejus emigdionis] #101 flutterbys #102=87old »Lycaeides #127=106old Aricia psilorita [»Polyommatus psylorita] #138=110old »vandeleuri #138=110old »Luperina berylae Vand. #142=113old A. luna [»Actias luna] #142=113old »Heterocera [»Introduction: Basic Subdivisions] #142=113old »Rhopalocera [»Introduction: Basic Subdivisions] #144=114old »Cyclargus erembis #182=147old L. bachmanni [»Libytheana bachmanii] #185=150old my huge butterfly work [on »Lycaeides] #198=163old a butterfly which I have describes, named, fondled - but never actualla taken myself at Teton National Forest, Wyoming [»Plebejus idas longinus] #226=186old photographs of me catching butterflies, and of rare butterflies on flowers and mud #231=191old a butterfly I had described from eight males [»Plebejus idas sublivens] #231=191old humming moths [»hummingbird moths, »Macroglossum stellatarum] #286=237old Lycaeides samuelis Nabokov [»Plebejus samuelis]
LECTURES ON LITERATURE (1980)
5 From the simple deception of propagation to the prodigiously sophisticated illusion of protective colors in butterflies or birds, there is in Nature a marvelous system of spells and wiles. The writer of fiction only follows Nature's lead. 374 There is a species of butterfly on the hindwing of which a large eyespot imitates a drop of liquid with such uncanny perfection that a line which crosses the wing is slightly displaced at the exact stretch where it passes through – or better say under – the spot [»Cerura vinula, »Brassolini, »Portschinsky]
SELECTED LETTERS 1940–1977 (1989)
19 Incidentally, I am not particularly interested in the butterflies of that department – Var 21 She [Maria Pavlovna] once collected butterflies in some wild spot with »Avinoff 33 catch American butterflies 40 a huge scientific paper about certain American butterflies I have discovered 41 I got a butterfly here [Vermont] which has never been recorded yet from the state: »Colias interior Scudder 51 a thing I call vetch on which melissa breeds and the species of lupine – the food plant of annetta … Melissa … Annetta … [»Plebejus melissa, »Plebejus melissa annetta] 55 Prof. William T.M. »Forbes 55 these excellent little lycaenids (faga, ramon, some hanno specimens) [»Nabokovia faga, »Hemiargus ramon, »Hemiargus hanno] 55 the mollicularia specimen [»Metarranthis mollicularia] 55 Itylos (sensu stricto) Koa Druce, 2 m, 2 f [»Itylos] 55 »Lycaena endymion Blanchard (forma chilensis Blanchard) 55 »Pseudolucia collina Philippi 55 Pseudothecla faga Dognin, 4 m, (one labeled "excisicosta") [»Nabokovia faga] 55 »Echinargus martha Dognin 55 Hemiargus ramon Dognin [»Hemiargus ramon] 55 Hemiargus hanno Stoll [»Hemiargus hanno] 56 the Lycaena martha of Dognin [»Echinargus martha] 56 »Echinargus n.sp. 56 the »Lycaeides forms 58–9 sliding cases of butterflies. I am the custodian of these absolutely fabulous collections. We have butterflies from all over the world … this retreat into entomology 59 airplanes, to him [Dmitri Nabokov], are what butterflies are to me 61 He did invent a radically new paradigm for the classification of an entire group of »Blues 64 Most of my time … is taken up by scientific papers on butterflies 80 Prof. William T.M. »Forbes 93–4 the butterfly wings in the third panel of the Bosch tryptich … can be at once determined as belonging to a female specimen of the common European species now known as »Maniola jurtina 102 Dear »Bequaert 102 winding up my lepidopterological affairs 102 Dr. »McDunnough 102 I am responsible for the arrangement of the Nearctic butterflies… was never officially curator of the Lepidoptera 102 certain lycaenids [»Lycaenidae] 102 the »Lycaeides (the "scudderi-melissa" group) 103 the Frank »Chermock batch 103 Some lycaenids occurring in North America [»Lycaenidae] 103 Neotropical »Plebejinae 103 »Scudder's Lycaenidae specimens 103 »Avinov, Carnegie Museum 103 »Phoebis argante race from Cuba 103 Franklin »Chermock 103 Colias occidentalis Scud. [»Pontia occidentalis] 103 W.P. »Comstock, A.M.N.H. 103 »Anea 103 R.M. »Fox, Carnegie Museum 103 about 1900 specimens of »Ithomine 103 A.B. »Klots, College of the City of New York 103 Boloria freija [»Clossiana freija] 103 I have given to the MCZ all the abundant lepidopterological material … that I collected in 1943 and 1947 in Utah and Colorado besides a smaller collection I made in various Eastern localities 104 »Stallings, »Grey, »Eff 104 The sentence about the ironically appropriate butterflies is too silly for words 104–5 "moth" should not be capitalized 113 a photographer from LIFE combined with my knowledge of butterflies and their ways would make a simply ideal team 113 the few showy ones that occur throughout the eastern states (the Monarch [»Danaus plexippus], two or three »Swallowtails, Admirals [»Vanessa atalanta] have been pictured ad nauseam 113 There is one little thing, a perfect jewel (and one of the rarest butterflies in the world) of which only thirty or forty specimens have been taken since it was turned up by Edwards' Negro gardener almost a hundred years ago; at the present time two or three collectors know of a locality for it in Vermont, in early May – but the exact place is a secret [»Erora laeta] 113 A very local blue butterfly which I have named myself [»Plebejus samuelis] 113 The only eastern butterfly that combines marvelous beauty with comparative rarity … is a large Fritillary [»Speyeria diana] 114 I would dearly want to have photographs taken of a charming middle-size butterfly that I discovered and named ten years ago in the Grand Canyon [»Cyllopsis pertepida dorothea] 114–5 very photogenic butterflies … what LIFE would decide to spend on the project 118 "Speak, Mnemosyne!" (this one is my favorite) [»Driopa mnemosyne] 119 let me review »Klots' book on butterflies 122 in specific search of a butterfly that I myself had described [»Plebejus idas sublivens] 134 the question of mimicry is one that has passionately interested him all his life 136 From eight a.m. to noon, or later, I collect butterflies 139 The passion for butterflies has turned into a real mania this year 150 There are… some admirable canyons where most interesting butterflies occur 186 a book on butterflies appeals to me tremendously … I think I could achieve a perfect blend of science, art and entertainment 187 pondering the butterfly book 189 devoted many years to entomological research … would need to examine certain collections 199 a »skipper and a lycaenid [»Lycaenidae] 199 ("shasta comstocki" is by the way »Icaricia Nabokov, 1944) 199 John Henry »Comstock 199 Dr. John A. »Comstock 214 Taos … headquarters when collecting butterflies in the N. Mexico mountains 215 the »Comstock of California … the Cornell »Comstock 239 one of which is pleasingly called by lepidopterists "Nabokov's Wood Nymph" [»Cyllopsis pertepida dorothea] 239 I annually attempt to identify the »noctuid »moth that circles around a lamp in the brothel scene of Joyce's "Ulysses" 239 there are three butterflies in "Madame Bovary", black, yellow, and white, respectively 257 Not only did he [Poe] not visualize the death's-head moth, but he was also under the completely erroneous impression that it occurs in America [»Acherontia atropos] 284 I like the two colored butterflies on the jacket but they have the body of ants … I would be the laughing stock of my entomological colleagues 284–5 a common »Cabbage White butterfly (whereas the insect in my poem is clearly described as belonging to a group of small butterflies with dotted undersides) [»Lysandra cormion] 285 Not to have any butterflies … different pattern 287 The title-page butterfly is now charming … The binding-design »Swallowtail lacks antennae 287 (two popular European insects, the »Galatea Marbled White and the »Machaon Swallowtail) 288 near Flagstaff, where I am collecting butterflies 290 this canyon in Arizona where my wife and I are collecting butterflies 294 getting some wonderful butterflies here 297 the butterfly, as finally evolved, is right lepidopterologically 327 Hessel's Hairstreak [»Mitoura hesseli] … or Aaron's Skipper [»Poanes aaroni] 331 Vladimir misses the States very much … including the American Lepidoptera 339 BBC … televised interview … Zermatt… all the time shooting pictures of V. catching butterflies 359 I find it unseemly to speak of … the butterflies bearing my name 360–1 the British Museum has … about 50% of Vladimir's butterfly list … if you still intend to go on with the project 367 sending me a copy of your Our Butterflies and Moths … Mr. »Howe … As an illustrator of Lepidoptera 368 in the settled butterflies the position of the legs in profile is not always correct 368 preponderance of common, showy species 368 He cannot be expected to chase »Papilio glaucus for very long 368 any of the »Colias, »Boloria and »Plebeius 368 old Dr. »Holland was a notorious offender 368 an illustrated monograph on »Polygonia or on the various races of »Papilio indra 384 The only symbol a broken butterfly is of is a broken butterfly 384 that particular peacock butterfly [»Inachis io] 400 Passio et morbo aureliana 407 A great number of Asian specimens of various forms of »Lycaeides are preserved in English, German, and Japanese museums 407 Although a genus (Nabokovia Hemming) and several new species (e.g., Eupithecia nabokovi McDunnough) do bear my name, no »Lycaeides species or subspecies happens to be named after me … e.g., L.sublivens Nabokov) [»Eupithecia nabokovi and »Nabokovia, »Plebejus idas sublivens] 408 Lepidoptera, a tricky subject 408 my »Blues 410 I protest vehemently against the lycaenization of my common use of the epithet »"blue" [»Lycaenidae] 410 Miss »Phalen … phalène means moth in French 410 to smuggle in a »pierid of the Southern States and a European »moth 410 I do not see the colors of Lepidoptera as I do those of less familiar things 410–1 if I use "morpho blue" I am thinking not of one of the many species of variously blue »Morpho butterflies 411 When a lepidopterist uses »"Blues", a slangy but handy term 413 »Pisky 413 phalène, moth [»Phalen] 413 I can glean only eleven lep references in LOLITA 413 Falter (German for "butterfly") 413 Humbert's complete incapacity to differentiate between Rhopalocera and Heterocera [»Introduction: Basic Subdivisions] 413 »"millers" 414 Pronuba … "Yucca Moth" [»Tegeticula yuccasella] 414 not birds but »Hawk Moths 414 »Callophrys avis 414 Butterflies are indeed inquisitive 414 "Schmetterling" (German "butterfly") 414 Moths like derelict snowflakes 414 Under the sign of the »Tigermoth (an Arctid) 414 Footnote to lycaeides sublivens Nabokov [»Plebejus idas sublivens] 414 »Lycaeides … »Plebejus 414 »Plebejinae 414 argyrognomon … idas … [»Plebejus idas] 436 Those two meleagers (?) [»Polyommatus daphnis] 436 the white-and-black mnemosyne of the Weidenfeld jacket [»Driopa mnemosyne] 437 daphnis by Schiffermüller [»Polyommatus daphnis] 437 meleager by Esper [»Polyommatus daphnis] 438 called cormion by me, and belongs structurally to the subgenus called Lysandra by »Hemming [»Lysandra cormion] 462 liked best Tukio Tabuchi The Alpine Butterflies of Japan 463 the Puss Moth caterpillar is all wrong [»Cerura vinula] 468 like shimmering little light-blue mirrors – »Morpho butterflies flying above the trees 469 family »Nymphalidae, not "genus" 473 We are distinguished by wings of black hue … (»Nymphalis antiopa] 473 Dr. »Higgins 473 the Twinspot Fritillary's map [»Brenthis hecate] 473–4 his [Mr. Hardgreaves'] drawing of »Ringlets 474 »E[rebia] pluto 474 Norfolk Swallowtail [»Papilio machaon britannicus] 474 »Verity 476 this wonderful occasion to do some butterfly hunting [in Israel] 478 your country's [Israel] spring buterflies 480 before I am too decrepit to chase butterflies 480 Barcant's Butterflies of Trinidad and Tobago 481 P barcanti should be P. barcanti Tite, not "P barcanti sp. nov". [»Pachythone barcanti] 481 N. maravalica should be N. maravalica Seitz, not "N. maravalica sp. nov". [»Nymphidium maravalica] 481 I continue to be distressed by the illiterate vogue of omitting the names of genus-describers 481 »Echinargus Nabokov to which I assigned huntingtoni 481 implying … that »Linnaeus is the author not only of the species iphicla but of the genus Adelpha [»Adelpha, »Adelpha iphicla] 484 the type locality of the butterfly described as »aurelia by Nickerl in 1850 is "Böhmen"… [parthenie Borkhausen 1788] [»Mellicta aurelia] 500 William D. »Field 500 V. atalanta … [»Vanessa atalanta] 500 your Catalogue of New World »Lycaenidae 500–1 two specific names in »Lycaeides … L[ycaeides] argyrognomon … L[ycaeides] idas … L[ycaeides] ismenias… [»Plebejus argyrognomon, »Plebejus idas] 501 arrived at the conclusion that my »L[ycaeides] melissa samuelis should be treated as a distinct species [»Plebejus melissa] 501 Lycaeides samuelis Nabokov … beyond Pnin's and Château's ken [»Plebejus samuelis] 503 the Death's Head Moth of mistranslation [»Acherontia atropos] 508 The only two kinds of "butterfly books" that I could contemplate writing … a learned work … on … European butterflies … the evolution of butterfly painting 516 (in case a … dancing butterfly leads me over the brink of a precipice) 532 the notebook (with butterflies) 547 the so-called "Karner Blue" illustrating Bayard Webster's note on insects needing protection (N.Y. Times, March 21 [1975]) is a butterfly I classified myself. It is known as Lycaeides melissa samuelis Nabokov or more properly Lycaeides samuelis Nabokov [»Plebejus samuelis] 549 The story of Lycaeides samuelis Nabokov, … which I separated in 1943 … from the W. American race of another species, now known as »Lycaeides idas scudderi Edwards … When thirty years ago I attempted to classify samuelis, I regarded it as a subspecies of melissa Edw. on the basis of the length of its falx but now I know better [»Plebejus samuelis] 550 Lycaeides samuelis Nabokov … is precisely the butterfly which settles on damp sand at the feet of Pnin and Chateau [»Plebejus samuelis] 552 For more than a month I hunted butterflies around Davos 559 thrilled by those first American butterflies 561 The Butterflies of North America by »Howe … in marvelous color 562 opalescent »morphos and so on
THE STORIES OF VLADIMIR NABOKOV (1995)
"Sounds" (1923/1995) 20 Butterflies floated above the unmowed scabious flowers "Gods" (1923/1995) 46-7 Butterfly, butterfly! Black with scarlet bands … A scrap of velvet … It swoops above the asphalt … Another, identical butterfly … Lesbia … entranced by the palpitating wings [»Vanessa atalanta] "La Veneziana" (1924/1995) 90 glinted behind his pince-nez like limp light-blue butterflies "Christmas" (1924/1976) 132 deftly plucking off with his net a butterfly that had settled on a railing 133 having babbled about … some great Oriental moth [»Attacus atlas] 134 an English biscuit tin that contained a large exotic cocoon which had cost three rubles [»Attacus atlas] 134 even files of specimens 134 those spectacular »Swallowtails, those dazzling »Coppers and »Blues, and the various »Fritillaries, some mounted in a supine position to display the mother-of-pearl undersides 134 the moths, the moths, the first Aspen Hawk of five summers ago 135 the biscuit tin with the pear-shaped cocoon [»Laothoe amurensis] 135 names of captured butterflies 135 a fresh specimen of the Camberwell Beauty [»Nymphalis antiopa] 136 the muslin of the butterfly net 136 a black, wrinkled creature the size of a mouse … It became a winged thing imperceptibly … a great Attacus moth like those that fly, birdlike, around the lamps in the Indian dusk [»Attacus atlas] "The Aurelian" (1930/1958) 244 »Aurelian 244 a butterfly store 244 Eyed wings wide open in wonder, shimmering blue satin, black magic [»Morpho] 246 such dreamers as used to be called in the old days 'Aurelians' – perhaps on account of those chrysalids, those 'jewels of nature' 247 when … butterflies had begun to oust the stuffed birds of paradise 247 the biography of the silk-worm [»Bombyx mori] 247 showy insects, popular stars among butterflies 247 perfect specimens impeccably spread and labeled 247 loaded brown pupæ 247 yielded a limp, bedraggled, miraculously expanding »moth 248 a large turquoise-green caterpillar with a china-blue horn on the last ring [»Mimas tiliae] 248 the rarest butterflies of distant countries 248 the furious throbbing of wings through a clutched fold of the gauze 248 exotic Lepidoptera 248 the late Dr. »Staudinger 249 "»Eisner got one like that at an auction in London" ... "And Eisner's female was not so fresh" 249 the native collectors of Father »Dejean … how enviable was thy lot! 249–50 the famous sites dear to butterfly collectors 250 a whitish »moth had dashed in 250 a weird local race of the »cabbage white 250 the swat and dusky Corsican swallowtail [»Papilio hospiton] 250 the arctic bogs that produced such delicate downy butterflies 250 a plump sleepy »moth of a still undescribed species 250 glazed Apollo butterflies [»Parnassius] 250 an oleander hawk … its wings vibrating so rapidly that nothing but a ghostly nimbus was visible about its streamlined body [»Daphnis nerii] 250 the loftily flapping Brazilian »morphos 250 those crowds of African butterflies closely stuck like innumerable fancy flags into the rich black mud and rising in a coloured crowd 251 those small »clear-wing moths that mimick wasps or mosquitoes 251 the extravagant brilliancy of an iridiscent green insect with many tails … Madagascar [»*Chrysiridia riphearia] 251 those tiny vitreous creatures with bright orange feet and belted bodies [»clear-wing moths] 251 »uralensis 252 his new existence, where only butterflies mattered 254 velvety black butterflies soaring over the jungles 254 a tiny »moth in Tasmania 254 that Chinese 'skipper' said to smell of crushed roses when alive [»skipper: *Capila pieridoides chinensis] 254 the short-clubbed beauty that a Mr. »Baron had just discovered in Mexico [»*Baronia brevicornis] "Terra incognita" (1931/1973) 294 Gregson … continued catching butterflies and Diptera as ever 295 a gigantic »swallowtail, with a flap of its satin wing, sailed away "Perfection" (1932/1975) 340 geometrid moths, matching the bark in coloration, flew off the tree trunks [»Geometridae] "Spring in Fialta" (1936/1958) 423–4 till he reached that coveted corner of the frame where rested a compact furry »moth, which he deftly slipped into a pillbox "Cloud, Castle, Lake" (1937/1958) 430 A »moth dashed about the ceiling "Mademoiselle O" (1936/1958) 482 Coming from nowhere, a comma butterfly settled on the threshold, basked in the sun with its angular fulvous wings spread, suddenly closed them just to show the initial chalked on their underside, and as suddenly darted away [»anglewing, »*Hesperia comma] "First Love" (1948) 603 pale »moths revolved about a lone lamp 604 At a tremendous pace a stray golden-orange butterfly came dashing across the palpitating plage [»Colias crocea] 604 that "butterfly" in the Basque language is misericoletea (actually it is tximeleta) 605 surpassed my passion for butterflies 606 I stuffed a folding butterfly net into a brown paper bag
ON 'CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE' (1950/1998) – New Yorker, 28 December 1998 (page numbers of Nabokov's Butterflies, 2000)
457 through the thin sheath of a chrysalis one can see ... a miniature revelation of the butterfly that will soon emerge 457 he is known as a somewhat eccentric taxonomist 457 relating to new species or forms of butterflies 457 other entomologists have named butterflies and moths after him 458 I was shown several tiny moths which Nabokov discovered 458 One of these »McDunnough has named »Eupithecia nabokovi 13 his tribulations while collecting butterflies in Europe [this page number refers to the LoC typescript]
THE BUTTERFLIES OF EUROPE (BE) – Notes for a book project (September 1963-August 1965), published in Nabokov's Butterflies, ed. Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle, p.569-612
571 (BE) P. machaon sphyrus [»Papilio machaon sphyrus] 572 (BE) machaon machaon [»Papilio machaon machaon] 572 (BE) »Erebia (simplicia) flavofasciata thiemei 573 (BE) Papilio (Papilio) machaon machaon L. [»Papilio machaon machaon] 575 (BE) Plebejus Lycaeides idas bellieri [»Plebejus idas bellieri] 575 (BE) It matters little whether we place »Danaus or »Charaxes (with »Apatura) or »Satyrus in separate families or arrange them as subfamilies within »Nymphalidae. The same in regard to »"Riodinidae" or "Riodininae in »Lycaenidae" 575 (BE) »Cupido includes Cupido and »Everes 577 (BE) five »Plebejus (or »Plebejina) species occur (say, P. argus, P. idas, P. icarus, P. bellargus, and P. arstrache) [»Plebejus argus, »Plebejus idas, »Polyommatus icarus, »Polyommatus bellargus, »Aricia agestis] 577 (BE) »Charcharodus = Charcharodus + »Reverdinus + »Lavatheria and »Pyrgus = Pyrgus (t. malvae) + »Scelotrix (t. sidae) + »Ateleomorpha (t. onopordi) 578 (BE) machaon britannicus [»Papilio machaon britannicus] 578 (BE) machaon gorganus or machaon machaon [»Papilio machaon gorganus, »Papilio machaon machaon] 578 (BE) The structural distinction between P. machaon and alexanor is absolute [»Papilio machaon, »Papilio alexanor] 578 (BE) hospiton [»Papilio hospiton] 578 (BE) podalirius [»Iphiclides podalirius] 578 (BE) feisthamelii [»Iphiclides feisthamelii] 579 (BE) Boloria alethea should have been Brenthis (Boloria) esperi and (Clossiana) titania rossica should have been Brenthis (Clossiana) titania seripe [»Boloria aquilonaris, »Fabriciana adippe] 580 (BE) »Lysandra cormion Nab. 580 (BE) Lysandra polonus Zell.== "calydonius", "haffneri" etc (coridon × bellargus) [»Polyommatus polonus] 580 [BE] Brinteria etc. [»Brintesia] 580 (BE) "valesina" [»Argynnis paphia] 580 (BE) M. dictynna [»Melitaea diamina] 580 (BE) M. didyma [»Didymaeformia didyma] 580 (BE) B. napaea [»Boloria napaea] 581 (BE) alb. Colias & "valesina" [»Argynnis paphia] 582 (BE) Papilio machaon, machaon sphyrus, machaon britannicus, machaon gorganus, machaon alpica [»Papilio machaon, »Papilio machaon alpica, »Papilio machaon britannicus, »Papilio machaon gorganus, »Papilio machaon sphyrus] 582 (BE) »Papilio feisthamelii Duponchel [»Iphiclides feisthamelii] 583 (BE) podalirius podalirius [»Iphiclides podalirius podalirius] 583 (BE) »Zerynthia Ochsenheimer 583 (BE) »Archon (Archon) apollinus Herbst 583 (BE) »Parnassius (Parnassius) apollo Linnaeus 583 (BE) brittingeri [»Parnassius apollo] 584 (BE) »Parnassius apollo provincialis Kheil 584 (BE) P. (P.) phoebus cervinicolus Fruhstorfer [»Parnassius phoebus cervinicolus] 585 (BE) P. (P.) brassicae brassicae L. [»Pieris brassicae] 585 (BE) Pieris (Pieris) brassicae azorensis Rebel [»Pieris brassicae] 585 (BE) Pieris (Pieris) mannii Mayer [»Pieris mannii] 585 (BE) Pieris napi [»Pieris napi] 585 (BE) bryoniae Hub. [»Pieris bryoniae] 586 (BE) P. napi flavescens Wagner [»Pieris napi] 586 (BE) P. napi bryoniae Hübner [»Pieris bryoniae] 586 (BE) Pontia (Pontia) daplidice Linnaeus [»Pontia daplidice] 586 (BE) »Euchloe (E.) ausonia ausonia Hüb. 587 (BE) »Delias Subgenus: »Aporia Hübner:… one species in Europe: crataegi Linnaeus [»Aporia crataegi] 587 (BE) Colias (Colias) … hyale & australis [»Colias hyale, »Colias sareptensis] 587 (BE) Colias (Colias) chrysotheme schugurowi Krulikovski [»Colias chrysotheme] 587 (BE) »Leptidea Billberg 587 (BE) L. sinapis corsica Verity [»Leptidea sinapis corsica] 588 (BE) Minois pegala pegala F. and pegala nephele Kirby [»Cercyonis pegala pegala, »Cercyonis pegala nephele] 588 (BE) ferula Fabricius [»Satyrus ferula] 588 (BE) Hipparchia (»Neohipparchia) statilinus statilinus Hufn. 589 (BE) Hipparchia (Neohipparchia) statilinus australis … "fatua" Freyer … fidaeoformis Verity … onosandrus Fruhstorfer [»Neohipparchia statilinus, »Neohipparchia statilinus australis, »Neohipparchia fatua, »Pseudotergumia fidia] 589 (BE) Hipparchia (Chazara) hippolyte euxinus Kuznetsov [»Pseudochazara euxina] 589 (BE) Auclocera (Brinthesia) … circe Fabricius [»Brintesia circe] 589 (BE) Maniola (Pyronia) … bathseba Fabricius [»Pyronia bathseba] 589 (BE) »Aphantopus … species hyperantus Linnaeus 590 (BE) My arrangement of European species [of »Erebia] Dec. 1964 [48 species] 590 (BE) Papilio ligeia [»Erebia ligeia] 590 (BE) Phorcys [»Phorcis] 590 (BE) Monica [»Marica] 590 (BE) Truncaefolia [»Truncaefalcia] 590 (BE) »Atramentaria 590 (BE) »Callerebia 591 (BE) »Erebia (Erebia) … manto Schiffermuller 591 (BE) flavofasciata Heyne [»Erebia flavofasciata] 591 (BE) christi Rätzer [»Erebia christi] 591 (BE) »Erebia (Edda) cassioides murina Reverdin 592 (BE) »Erebia (Phorcys) … gorge Hübner 592 (BE) as alert as a »Dira [»Erebia disa] 592 (BE) »Erebia (Phorcys) … mnestra Hübner 592 (BE) »Erebia (Phorcys) … rhodopensis Nicholl 592 (BE) »Erebia … pandrose Borkhausen 592 (BE) »Erebia … pronoë Esper 593 (BE) »Erebia (Truncaefalcia) aethiops altivaga Fruhstorfer 593 (BE) »Erebia … embla Thunberg 593 (BE) Erebia … Callerebia … phegea Butler [»Proterebia afra) 593 (BE) »Pararge (Pararge) egeria 593 (BE) »Lopinga achine 594 (BE) Pararge (»Lasiommata) maera 594 (BE) Pararge (»Lasiommata) petropolitana Fabricius 594 (BE) »Dira (Dira) petropolitana petropolitana F. [»Lasiommata petropolitana] 594 (BE) »Melanargia … galathea Linnaeus 595 (BE) A. russiae [»Melanargia russiae] 595 (BE) galathea [»Melanargia galathea] 595 (BE) psyche [»Melanargia occitanica] 595 (BE) »Yphthiminae 595 (BE) »Coenonympha (Coenonympha) tullia suevica Hemming 595 (BE) scotica Staudinger [»Coenonympha tullia scotica] 595 (BE) »Coenonympha (Chortobius) … hero Linnaeus 595 (BE) iphis [»Coenonympha glycerion] 596 (BE) Coenonympha (Coenonympha) corinna elbana Staudinger [»Coenonympha corinna, »Coenonympha elbana] 596 (BE) »Nymphalis (Nymphalis) … antiopa Linnaeus 596 (BE) Nymphalis (Nymphalis) urticae ichnusa Hübner [»Aglais urticae ichnusa] 596 (BE) P. hospiton [»Papilio hospiton] 596 (BE) A. elisa [»Argynnis elisa] 596 (BE) Nymphalis caschmirensis [»Aglais kaschmirensis] 596 (BE) »Pyrameis Hübner (1818) 597 (BE) »Vanessa (Vanessa) … cardui Linnaeus 597 (BE) »Araschnia (Araschnia) levana levana L. 597 (BE) »Melitaea … cinxia 597 (BE) »Melitaea (Melitaea) cinxia pallidior Oberthur 598 (BE Melitaea (Melitaea) phoebe minoa Fruhstorfer [»Cinclidia phoebe] 598 (BE) »Melitaea (Melitaea) diamina aurelita Fruhstorfer 598 (BE) »Melitaea (Melitaea) diamina vernetensis Oberthür 598 (BE) Melitaea (Athaliaeformia) athalia Spanish and Balkan groups [»Mellicta athalia] 598 (BE) Melitaea (Athaliaeformia) deione berisalii Rühl [»Mellicta deione berisalii] 598 (BE) Melitaea britomartis melathalia Rocci [»Mellicta britomartis] 598 (BE) britomarti [»Mellicta britomartis] 598 (BE) parthenie [»Mellicta aurelia] 598 (BE) M. parthenie mendrisiota Fruhstorfer [»Mellicta aurelia] 599 (BE) Melitaea (Athaliaeformia) parthenoides sphines Fruhstorfer [»Mellicta parthenoides] 599 (BE) Melitaea (Athaliaeformia) parthenoides beata Caradja [»Mellicta parthenoides] 599 (BE) Melitaea (Athaliaeformia)… varia Herrich-Schäffer [»Mellicta varia] 600 (BE) Melitaea… didyma Esper [»Didymaeformia didyma] 600 (BE) Melitaea (»Didymaeformia) trivia 600 (BE) catananoides Verity … nana Staudinger … catapelia Staudinger [»Didymaeformia trivia] 600 (BE) Melitaea (Didymaformia) trivia aabaca Fruhstorfer [»Didymaeformia didyma aabaca] 600 (BE) Euphydryas (Euphydryas) maturna Linnaeus [»Hypodryas maturna] 600 (BE) »Euphydryas (Euphydryas) aurinia glaciegenita Verity 600 (BE) merope de Prunner [»Euphydryas aurinea] 601 (BE) »Euphydryas (Euphydryas) aurinia provincialis Boisduval 601 (BE) »Issoria … lathonia Linnaeus 601 (BE) »Brenthis … daphne Schiffermüller 601 (BE) A. laodice [»Argyronome laodice] 601 (BE) Boloria (Boloria) pales mixta Warren [»Boloria pales] 601 (BE) graeca [»Boloria graeca] 601 (BE) pales [»Boloria pales] 601 (BE) pyrenesmiscens [»Boloria pales pyrenesmiscens] 601 (BE) Boloria (Boloria) sifonica aquilonaris Stichel [»Boloria aquilonaris] 602 (BE) Boloria (Boloria) aquilonaris alethea Hemming [»Boloria aquilonaris] 602 (BE) Limenitis (Limenitis) populi semiramis Schrank [»Limenitis populi] 602 (BE) bucovinensis [»Limenitis populi var. bucovinensis] 602 (BE) »Limenitis 602 (BE) Limenitis (Limenitis) … anonyma Lewis = reducta Staudinger … camilla … rivularis [»Azuritis reducta] 602 (BE) »Neptis Fabricius 602 (BE) Danaidae [»Danainae] 602 (BE) »Danaus chrysippus Linnaeus 603 (BE) Danaus body ... Vanessa cardui like wingtips … from a Theban tomb [»Danaus chrysippus ] 603 (BE) »Libytheidae 603 (BE) »Libythea … celtis Laicharting 603 (BE) »N[ymphalis] polychloros 604 (BE) The American species is Libythea bachmani Kirtland [»Libytheana bachmanii] 604 (BE) »Riodinidae 604 (BE) »Lycaenidae 604 (BE) Lycaena (Lycaena) … helle Schiffenmüller [»Helleia helle] 604 (BE) Lycaena (Heodes) alciphron gordius Sulzer [»Thersamolycaena alciphron gordius] 605 (BE) Lycaena (»Thersamolycaena) … dispar Haworth 605 (BE) »Cupidinae = Blues 605 (BE) the Polyommatini of »Forster (1938) [check] and to the »Plebejinae of authors e.g. of »Verity, 1943 (but not of »Stempffer or Nabokov) 605 (BE) Lycaena heteronea Boisduval [»Chalceria heteronea] 605 (BE) »Scolitantides … orion Pall. 606 (BE) Scolitantides, Glaucopsyche, Zizeeria, Maculinea & iolana [»Scolitantides, »Iolana iolas] 606 (BE) »Scolitantides ... orion Pallas 606 (BE) Scolitantides (Glaucopsyche) alexis aeruginosa Staudinger [»Glaucopsyche alexis] 606 (BE) Scolitantides (Maculinea) … nausithous Bergsträsser [»Maculinea nausithous] 606 (BE) intermediate between alcon and arion [»Maculinea alcon, »Maculinea arion] 606 (BE) teleus [»Maculinea telejus] 606 (BE) Scolitantidea (iolana) … iolas Ochsenheimer [»Iolana iolas] 607 (BE) In flight like a giant argiolus [»Celastrina argiolus] 607 (BE) »Plebejus Kluk … A large, clear-cut genus equivalent to the subfamily »Plebejinae of Stempffer 1937, 1938, and Nabokov 1944, 1945 (but not to the Plebejinae of authors, e.g. Verity); also equivalent to the "tribe" Plebejidi or Plebeiidi of Tutt & Chapman, 1909; and to the subfamily Polyommatinae of Forster, 1938 [also »Lycaenidae] 607 (BE) »Plebejus (Plebejus) argus aegidion Meisner 607 (BE) »Plebejus (Plebejus) argus corsica Bellier 607 (BE) P. idas bellieri [»Plebejus idas bellieri] 607 (BE) »Plebejus (Plebejus) pylaon trappi 607 (BE) extreme haefelfingeri [»Plebejus idas haefelfingeri] 608 (BE) »Plebejus (Lycaeides) idas valesiaca Oberthür … It grades into the altitudinal race argulus on the Simplon road … and into calliopsis in the Piedmont [»Plebejus idas calliopis] 608 (BE) »Plebejus (Lycaeides) idas argulus Frey 608 (BE) Plebejus (Lycaeides) idas corsica Tutt [»Plebejus idas bellieri] 608 (BE) Plebejus (Agrodiaetus) bellargus vestae Verity [»Polyommatus bellargus vestae] 608 (BE) Lycaeides (Lycaeides) argyrognomon [»Plebejus argyrognomon] 609 (BE) Plebejus (Aricia)… montensis debrosi Beuret [»Aricia artaxerxes] 609 (BE) Plebejus (»Agriades) glandon zullichi Hemming 609 (BE) A presumable cross between Plebejus (Agrodiaetus) coridon Poda and Plebejus (Meleageria) daphnis Schiffermuller was described from SE France as Lysandra cormion Nabokov 1944 [»Lysandra cormion] 609 (BE) »Polyommatus 609 (BE) Plebejus (»Polyommatus) … icarus Rottemburg 609 (BE) Plebejus (»Polyommatus) … icarus septentrionalis Fuchs 610 (BE) Plebejus (»Polyommatus) icarus flavocincta Rowland Brown 610 (BE) »Thecla 610 (BE) Thecla (Strymon) … acaciae Fabricius [»Satyrium acaciae] 610 (BE) Strymon (Strymon) ilicis inalpina Verity [»Satyrium ilicis] 610 (BE) »Callophrys (Callophrys) avis Chapman 610 (BE) »Hesperidae 610 (BE) »Ismenina[e] 611 (BE) »Carterocephalus 611 (BE) »Heteropterus 611 (BE) »Urbicolidae 611 (BE) Adopoea (Adopoea) … actaeon Rottemburg [»Thymelicus acteon] 611 (BE) »Heteropterus (Heteropterus) … morpheus Pallas 611 (BE) laodice [»Argyronome laodice] 611 (BE) xanthomelas [»Nymphalis xanthomelas] 611 (BE) Pyrgus … Scelotrix … carthami [»Pyrgus carthami] 611 (BE) »Pyrgus (Ataleomorpha) … armoricanus Oberthür 612 (BE) »Carcharodus (Carcharodus) … lavatherae Esper 612 (BE) »Erynnis … tages Linnaeus
NABOKOV'S DREAMS (1964) – published in The New Yorker, March 29, 1999
86 One is alive – a marvellous aberration of the Green Fritillary, with unusually elongated wings [»Speyeria edwardsii]
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