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Hybridisation Experiments with Thera variata, Schiff., and T.
obeliscata, Hb. (with Plate I. *).
By EH. A. COCKAYNE, D.M., F.R.C.P., F.E.S.
In my paper in the Record of March, 1926, I described my attempt
to hybridise these two species in the autumn of 1925 and stated my
intention to try again with the spring brood. With this object | went
to the New Forest at Easter and beat about 850 Thera larvae from
Douglas fir. Some were pupating before my return, and I found it
impossible to separate those with pink legs from those with green ones
owing to the lack of time, and so was unable to confirm my conclusion
that the colour of the legs is a safe character, by whieh these two
species can be differentiated. From the larvae with pink legs, which
appeared to be more numerous, | expected to obtain obeliscata, and actually
did breed rather more of this species than of variata. I had originally
intended to cross the variata with videliscata from Oxshott, but beating
there was most unsuccessful and I only got one larva.
To avoid any risk of pairing between members of the same species,
I separated my pupae roughly into males and females and rejected any
imago, which had been with a member of the opposite sex of its own
species for however short a time. Fortunately the sorting was satis-
factory and very few were wasted for this reason. On April 25th, the
first specimens of each emerged and the experiment was begun. To
obtain pairings I had a number of boxes and into each I put two or
three males of the one species with two or three females of the other.
Imagines continued to emerge until May 27th, and, although parasites
had destroyed more than half the larvae, there were quite enough for
my purpose. On the whole variata appears to be a little later than
obeliscata. By May 6th, 1 had many females of the latter but only
three of the former, and the last imago of all was a variata. In order
to make sure that I had not introduced a pair of the same species in
any of the boxes the insects in each were examined at least twice and
a final examination was made when they died. Altogether I used 38
*Will appear in February number.—Hy.J.T.
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males and 26 females of obeliscata and 82 males and 21 females of
variata, and from these I got two fertile pairings of variata 3 x obelis-
cata 2 yielding 81 eggs, and five or six fertile pairings of obeliscata 3 xX
variata 2 yielded 200 eggs, the latter being the cross I failed to obtaim
last autumn. ‘The fertile eges were all laid singly or in rows of two or
three on the needles of the spruce, and pairing took place quickly or
not at all. One female obeliscata laid a full complement of eggs within
the first three days, and placed them all on the needles, suggesting
that she had paired, but all the eggs wereinfertile. The other infertile
females of both species either laid no eggs, or laid comparatively few
and after some days delay, and many of the eggs were laid on the sides
or bottom of the box, or on the muslin cover. The larvae from the
earliest pairing of each cross began to hatch on May 22nd, and at the
start throve on spruce, but after the first and second instars they
began to die. The larvae of the variata g X obeliscata 9 cross were
the hardier and several rapidly outstripped the rest, but of the
reciprocal cross only one larva grew with this rapidity. On June 28th
I noted that on the whole the larvae of this hybrid were the larger,
in spite of the fact that many of the smallest of the larvae of the other
hybrid had died.
On July 15th the first imago of each hybrid emerged, but many
more variata J X vbeliscata 2 had pupated than obeliscata J xX
variata 2 , and by August 1st, 22 of the former had emerged and only
8 of the latter. In the end even the bigger larvae of both hybrids
began to die and | lost two or three which were pupating. On
September 21st the last imago, rariata g x obeliscata ? , emerged,
and it was clear that the remaining larvae, which were obeliscata f X
variata 2, intended to hibernate. Before the end of October they were
all dead.
There is no doubt that all the imagines bred are true hybrids. I
have mentioned the care taken in the pairing, and to avoid any danger
of introducing larvae of either parent species | bred neither obeliscata
nor variata. There was little risk of bringing in larvae on the food-
plant. The spruce was gathered from places where variata does not
occur, and it is not a usual food of obeliscata, but nevertheless it was
always examined for possible intruders, Luckily most of the larvae
grew more quickly than wild larvae of obeliscata, and this made my
precautions almost unnecessary.
CHARACTERS OF THE HYBRID LARVAE.—In my former paper I pointed
out that the larva of variata has green legs and that of obeliscata pink
lees, An examination of the legs of the hybrid larvae in their last
instar gave the following results:—variata g x obeliscata 9 —25
pink: 10 pale pink: 1 green. Obeliscata § X variata 2? —20 pink:
20 pale pink: 4 almost green: 1 green. ‘Those which I have called
almost green showed a faint tinge of pink on every segment, but to the
naked eye they appeared green. The Jeg colour of obeliscata is to a
great extent dominant over that of variatau when obeliscata is the female
parent, but when variata is the female parent, the influence of this
species is little inferior to that of obeliscata.
In my previous paper I showed that most larvae of obeliscata had
7 setae on each side of the anal flap and some had 6, whereas in
variata the majority had 5 and some had 6. In the case of the
hybrids there was greater variation. Of 28 hybrid larvae, variata $
EXPERIMENTS WITH THERA VARIATA AND T. OBELISCATA, 8
x obeliscata 2 , 81x had 7 on each side, four had 7 on one side and 6
on the other, sixteen bad 6 on each side, and two had 6 on one side,
and five on the other. Thus ten had more setae than any rariata I
have examined, but only two bad fewer than any obeliscata, and none
had the commonest number in variata, 5 on each side. These larvae
resembled oheliscata nore than variata. Of 84 hybrid larvae, of
obeliscata f xX variata 2, four had 7 setae on each side, three had 7
on ove side and 6 on the other, nineteen had 6 on each side, five had
6 on one side and 5 on the other, two had 5 on each side, and one had
5 on one side and 4 on the other. Seven had more setae than | have
found in any variata, eight bad fewer than I have found in any
obeliscata, so that in this respect neither species appeared to have a
predominating influence in this cross. The number of asymmetrical
examples, fifteen out of sixty-two, is rather remarkable and did not
seem to be due to injury. It was noticed in some living larvae and in
others it was found in the cast skin of the larva after pupation. In
one asyimetrical larva of obeliscata g xX variata 2 the third and
fourth setae on the rigbt side were exactly at the same level, one just
internal to the other, but in all the others the setae were spaced out
fairly evenly along the edge of the anal flap.
The results obtained by examining the setae and the colour of the
legs agree. The influence of vbeliscata, when it is the female parent,
is greater than that of rariata, but, when it is the male parent, it is
about eqnal to that of variata.
Cuakacreks oF tak pupA.—I found that Loth parent species had
pupae varying from pale green to blackish green and was unable to
distinguish any difference in the markings or in the structure of the
cremaster. The pupae of both hybrids showed the same range of
colour variation.
CHARACTERS OF THE IMAGINES.—Hybrid Thera woodi, nov. bhybr.
T. variata @ X T'. obeliscata 2, named after Mr. H Worsley- Wood.
Hybrid Thera prouti, nov. hybr, 7. obeliscata 3 x T. variata 2,
‘named after Mr. L. B. Prout, whose paper first drew attention to the
occurrence of rarfata in England.
Of hybrid woodt, 27 were bred, 19 males and 8 females.
Of hybrid prouti, 28 were bred, 17 males and 6 females.
It is a pity the different broods were not kept apart both from the
point of view of the sex ratios and the colour variation, but the time
required for this was greater than I could afford. The excess of males
is noteworthy, and I do not think it was due to the death of feinale
larvae. ‘The females on the whole emerged later than the males, but
the first woodi to emerve was a female and the last to emerge» in the
ease of both hybrids were males. Most of the big larvae which died
were, to judge by their size, males and only one was undoubtedly
female. It is well known that in some hybrids the sex ratio is
abnormal; in some cases there are more males than females and in
others all are males.
THE MALES OF HYBRID wooup1.—These fall roughly into four groupses
(a) Four very pale: general effect very smooth and uniform. ‘Two
with much more grey than ferruginous both in median area and rest
of forewing (Figs. 9 and 10): two with median area pale ferruginous
and with ferrnginous tint in other parts of wing: one of the latter is
less uniform than the other and is paler outside the postmedian and
4 THK KNTOMOLOGISY’S RECORD.
between the antemedian and basal patch. The shade proximal to the
antemedian is faintly indicated in all: the nervures in median area
are slightly darkened.
(6) Five rather uniform and lacking in pattern, but darker than
the above and with a darker ferruginous median area and basal patch ;
in four the ground colour of the rest of the wing is much more brown
than grey: one is darker than the others and bas a browner median
area and greyer ground colour (fig. 11): with one exception the shade
proximal to the antemedian is very indistinct: nervures in median
area are dark.
(c) Seven very pale: pattern variegated like the better marked
variata, but with pale ferruginous median area and brownish tint in
ground colour; postmedian not indented: shade proximal to ante-
median well marked: nervures in median area darkened. In five the
wing between the postmedian and subterminal from the costa to the
bend in the postmedian is much whiter than the rest of the ground
colour, a character of variata (figs. 12-16).
(/) Three with median area blackish brown: basal patch paler
but with very dark edge and dark strips across it; paler lines distal to
patch and on either side of median area: ground colour greyish brown.
These are indistinguishable from some of the banded forms of
obeliscata (the nymotypical form) (figs. 17 and 18.)
Tue FremaLes oF HYBRID woop1.—(a) One is pale like the males in
group (a), but the ground colour is almost pure grey and the grey
shades proximal to the antemedian, and the grey subterminal are very
distinct and darker than the pale ferruginous median area itself. The
nervures in median area are darkened. (fig. 9.)
(b) One is rather like the males in group (b) but the markings are
more distinct. (fig. 22.)
(c) Four are very like the males in group (c) and one is even more
prettily variegated; the outline of the postmedian lacks the loops
which indent that of variata: the nervures in the median area are
darkened. (tigs. 20 and 21.)
(7) Two are banded, but not so distinctly as the males: the ground
colour is a darker brown and the median area is less clearly delimited
by pale lines. (figs. 23 and 24.)
Mates oF HYBRID pRouTI.—(a) Four very similar to group (a) of
the reverse cross, but with brownish ground colour. (fig. 1.)
(6) Six like group (b) of woodi: two with very red-brown ground
colour (fig. 2): three with greyer ground like the darkest woodi. (fig 8.)
(c) Seven a good deal darker and with one exception not so well
marked as group (c) of woodi: one bas the median area narrow and
broken in the way which is so common in juniperata. In the figure
the median area is too dark. (fig. 4.) But for the more ferruginous
median area it might easily be mistaken for the uncommon brown
form of variata.
All six females of prouti correspond with the males of group (c):
none show much variation and resemble in pattern the obscurely
marked variata race britannica; in five the ground colour is brown
(figs. 6 and 7), and in one grey-brown (fig. 8.)
The two hybrids have many points in common, and their colour
and pattern show characters derived from both parents. The median
area almost always has the ferruginous or brown colour of obeliscata,
EXPERIMENTS WITH THERA VARIATA AND T. OBELISCATA. 3)
The rest of the ground colour varies; in many it is as brown or nearly
as brown as in obeliscata, but only in two is it nearly as grey as in
variata. In none is it as pale reddish as in the common var. herrichi,
and in none as grey as in variata. In the majority the pattern is more
nearly that of obeliscata, although in some it is more like that of variata
The outline of the postmedian is almost always that of obeliscata, and
only in one is it as looped as in variata. The darkening of the
nervures in the median area is well marked in most, and in this respect
they are more like variata. The banded forms are almost identical
with some obeliscata. The chief differences between the tw» hybrids
are that prowti is the darker and lacks the branded and pale variegated
forms.
Taking all the hybrids together, there are several specimens which
would attract little or no attention in a series of obeliscata, but none
would be mistaken for variata, although one at least is more like this
species. The effects attributable to each parent are less easy to assess
exactly in the case of the imagines than in the larvae, but here too the .
influence of obeliscata appears to be the greater especially when it is
the female parent. Those most like obeliscata occur amongst the woodi
and the one most like variata amongst the prouti.
Owing to its much more restricted distribution on the continent
Herr Hofer thinks it probable that obeliscata is the more recent species,
or, to be more accurate, he regards it as a species in the making, but
he expresses the view that crossing it with variata may lead to a more
definite conclusion. This has now been done, but it would have been
still more interesting to have seen to what extent segreeation of
characters occurred in the second generation of the hybrids and
whether obeliscata would have proved to be a true dominant. No
attempt was made to do this, because I have found it impossible to
keep Thera larvae alive through the winter, and I do not even know
whether such secondary hybrids can be obtained.
In the case of hybrids the species with the greater influence on the
offspring is usually regarded as the older, and if this be accepted as
true, obeliscata must be phylogenetically older than variata. The
result is unexpected, but I am very doubtful if the argument is sound.
It seems to me more probable that the recessive is the older form.
Recessive characters must be common to both species, but dominant
ones may be present only in one. If they have not been lost by the
species lacking them they must have been newly acquired, and indicate
that the species possessing them is the younger.
Bowater describing his hybrid Cernra furcula f x bicuspis says
that it shows a greater resemblance to furcula than to bicuspis and
gives the following quotation from Harrison. ‘‘ The superior influence
of the male is noted in practically all the hybrids I have reared, not
only amongst the genus Nyssta and Lycia, but also in Ennomids and
Larentiids likewise.” The hybrid woodi is an exception to this rule;
for both on the larvae and imagines the female parent has the superior
influence,
6 ‘ THE KWKNYLOMOLOGIST’S KKCORD,
The Ants (Formicidae), and some Myrmecophiles, of Sicily.
By HORACE DONISTHORPE, F.Z.S., F.E.S., ete.
(Concluded from Vol. XXXVIII., p. 165.)
-
_ Strongylognathus destefanii, Emery.—Up to now only a single
specimen (the type, a female) of this ant had been taken. I was
fortunate enough to find three colonies, as well as a single 9. On
April 6tb, I took a single deiilated 9, which was by itself under a
stone at Taormina. On April 12th I discovered a strong mixed colony
of S. destefanii and T'etramorium ferox v. diomedaea, at Taormina,
It was situated under a stone on the hill side. but extended some
distance both sides in the stony ground. I should say about 80% of
the ¥ ¥ were Tetramoriium. The nest was very difficult to dig up,
and much time and labour failed to disclose females of either species.
Another similar mixed colony was found on the other side of
Taormina on April 20th. The ants were under a small stone, but
extended widely in the very stony hard ground. In this nest four
specimens of the beetle Dichillus pertusus were present. Finally on
April 22nd, I found a mixed colony of the Strongylognathus and Aphaeno-
gaster semipolita! I cannot explain this, but the fact remains, and no
amount of digging produced a single T’etramorium.
Different forms of the genus Strongylognathus (of which there are
four species, six subspecies, and two varieties, known) have occurred in
Algeria, Tunis, Spain, France, Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, Caucasus,
Urals, and Central Russia, and have always been found associating
with forms of TZvtramorium caespitum. They possess sickle-shaped
jaws similar to those of the true slave-makers Polyeryus, but have been
called degenerate slave-makers, as they appear to have mostly lost the
power of making slave raids. Unlike most parasitic ants the female of
both host ana guest live side by side in the nest. The Tetramorium
workers bring up males, females, and workers of the Strongylognathus,
but only rear their own workers. Wasmann suggested that these
mixed colonies were founded jointly by a female of each species, but
Wheeler rather thinks that the Strongylognathus female enters a
Tetramorium colony after it has already been established. This latter
view is perhaps borne out by the finding of solitary Stronyylognathus
feales. Such a female is probably waiting near a Jetramorium
colony, for an opportunity to enter its nest.
As the worker of Strongylognathus destefanii is undescribed, I have
drawn up the following description of the same :—
_ _& Yellow, shining, antennae, vertex of head, and gaster a little darker (more
shining and of «a brighter yellow than in 8. huberi, EHmery,), with somewhat long
erect hairs (slightly longer than in 8. huberi) on head and whole body.
Heap: broader in comparison to its length than in huberi; mandibles long
and strong, sharply pointed and very finely striated ; clypeus and frontal area smooth
and shining ; rest of head almost smooth, with fairly large widely separated punctures,
and with faint striae on cheeks and temples ; antennae rather long, scape slender,
funiculus with a rather large, well-marked, 3-jointed club.
THORAX: pronotum and mesonotum smooth and shining; sides of mesothorax
and epinotwm longitudinally striate ; epinotum armed with two short, sharp teeth.
PrrioLe with node high; post-petiole transverse (much more so than in huberi)
and lower than petiole, both petiole and post-petiole broader than in hubert ;
gaster apparently smooth and shining, but very finely transversely striate.
Lone 3°5-3'8mm.
ANTS AND MYRMECOPHILES OF SICILY. 7
Subfamily DoricHopertinas.
* Bothriomyrmex adriacus subsp. tonia var. sicula, Emery.—This
form was described by Emery [Bull. Soc. Vaud. Sct. Nat. 56 17
(1925)| in 1925 from two workers taken in Sicily (locality unknown)
by de Stefani many years ago.
On April 22nd I found a large and prosperous colony under a stone
at ‘Taormina.
* Tridomyrmex humilis, Mayr.—On March 21st, 1926, in Palermo,
I found a number of workers of this introduced species running in
small single files on the pavement of a road towards the outskirts of
the town. They appeared to come out of a garden, and one % was
observed to be carrying an Aphid. This is the first record for Sicily of
this pest —the well-known “ Argentine Ant’’—which has been rapidly
extending its range during the last twenty or thirty years and becom-
ing cosmopolitan. In Madeira it has exterminated the local species.
It has been introduced into New Orleans (where it now extends over
fully 5000 square miles to the Gulf of Mexico), California, Cape ‘Town
and Basutoland. MacDougal sent it to me to name from the Canary
Isles in 1924, I received it from Guernsey in 1919, and Forel records
it from Central France. In Britain —Carpenter recorded its occurrence
in vast numbers in Belfast in 1900, where it caused the greatest
inconvenience; Waterston sent it to we to name from Kdinburgh in
1912; Fryer‘from Enfield in 1916; Theobald from Kastbourne in 1916,
(here I understand two streets are uninhabitable on account of the
presence of this species): Keys from Plymouth in 1923; in 1921
Holkyard took it in a bot-house at Broadbottom, Cheshire ; in 1922
Britten captured % ¥ in Canary bananas at Fallowfield, Manchester ;
and in November 1926, I found it at Tring.
Tapinoma nigerrimiun, Nyl.—This ant was abundant everywhere,
nesting under stones, in bushes and rocks, and running on walls and
in gardens, etc. A number of males was observed at Taormina on
April 6th running on a rock, in the interstices of which the colony
was situated ; and males and winged females were found in a large
colony nesting under a stone on April 21st, A deiilated 9 was taken
on April 6th which was walking along a dusty road. Various
myrmecophiles were found with this ant—the beetles, Stenosis
brentoides var. sieula, Sol., occurred in two nests at Mondello on Mareh
17th, and again on April 22nd, at Taormina, Drusilla emnonins, Er.,
in a nest under a stone at Palermo on March 21st; and numerous
examples of Anthicus 4-yuttatus, Rossi, were running in company witb
workers of this ant in the xcelsior Palace Hotel garden at Taormina
in March, looking so ant-like that I was frequently taken in. Young
males of two spiders Micaria sp.?, and Phrurolithus sp.?, which were
also very ant-like, were found at Mondello on March 17th running in
company with 8 8 of 7. niyerrimum. The wost interesting find how-
ever was an Aphid of the genius Paracletvs, new to science, which™
Professor F. V. Theobald bas named after me. On April 21st
at Taormina I found a number of this new species, one winged form
being present, ina nest of 7. niyerrtmuwmn under a stone, and when
disturbed the ants hastened to carry away these Plant-lice into safety.
On Apri] 24th at Mola it was found again in still greater numbers,
with the same ant. Forel and other writers have stated that ants of
8 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD.
the genus Vapinoma do not keep Aphids, but this discovery proves
that they do rear these insects, especially as the Genus Paracletus is
the most truly myrmecophilous of all.
Subfamily Formicinar.
Plagiolepis (Plagiolepis) pygmaea, Latr.—This little species was
abundant at Mondello, Taormina, etc., nesting under stones, and
generally a number of queens was present in each nest.
Acantholepis frauenfeldi, Mayr.
* Acantholepis frauenfeldi, Mayr. var. nigra, Emery.—I found
colonies of this variety at Taormina on April 6th, 7th, and 16th, etc.,
always under stones. Three or more, and on one occasion very many
queens, were found in a single nest.
Acanthomyops (Donisthorpea) niger, Li.
Acanthomyops (Donisthorpea) alienus, Forst.
Acanthomyops (Donisthorpea) brunneus var. nigro-brunneus, Donis.
(alieno-brunneus, For., of Kmery’s list ?)—This dark form of brunneus,
which I have named nigro-brunneus [Ent. Rec. 38 18 (1926)|, was
found nesting under stones, and also, as does the true brunneus, in
trees. At Palermo on March 16th, workers were observed running at
the foot of a wall in a field, and on 21st a colony was found under a
stone. In the Hotel garden a colony occurred in a hollow tree, and on
March 28th my old Windsor friend the ant’s nest beetle, Huryusa
stnuata, was taken running on a path in company with workers of this
ant. Two more specimens of the Huryusa were found on April 2nd in
the nest of this ant which was situated under a stone.
At Taormina colonies were observed in the wood-mould in holes in
olive trees, and on Isola Bella on April 26th another was seen inhabit-
ing a hollow olive tree.
Silvestri [ Boll. Lab. Zool. R. Scuola Agri. Portici 6 237-38 (1912)]
records the capture of two myrmecophilous beetles—Homoeusa
acuminata, Mirk., and Claviger nebrodensis, Rag., with A. (D.) brunneus
at §. Guglielmo, near Castelbuono. The last named beetle which, like
all the species of the genus Clavier, is blind, and is a true guest,
being fed by its hosts, and also supplying them with a sweet secretion,
was first taken in Sicily by Ragusa, who recorded and described it in
1871 [Bull. Soc. Ent. Italiana 8 194-96 (1871)].
* Acanthomyops (Donisthorpea) brunneus, Latr. (Ragusa; Silvestri).
Acanthomyops (Donisthorpea) emarginatus, Latr.
Acanthomyops (Chthonolasius) flavus, F.
Formica sanguinea, Latr.
Formica fusca, L., var. glebaria, Nyl.—Many workers were seen
running about on the rim of a fountain, and on a willow tree, ete., in
the Excelsior Palace Hotel garden at Palermo in March.
Camponotus (Camponotus) ligniperdus, Later.
Camponotus (Camponotus) vagus, Scop.
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) sylvaticus ssp. pilicornis var. sicula,
Emery. Stray soldiers and workers were taken in cart-tracks, drains,
etc., and in spiders’ webs in the Hotel garden at Palermo in March.
At Mondello on March 17th large colonies were found under stones
containing many soldiers, and workers of all sizes.
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) aethiops, Latr.
ANTS AND MYRMECOPHILES OF SICILY. 9
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) atlantis, Forel (pallens, Nyl.).
Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) atlantis ssp. nylandert, Kmery.—This
subspecies was found at T'aormina, Capo S. Andrea, and Mola, nesting
under stones, and in walls, ete. Workers were seen running about on
leaves, and hunting high up on olive trees, etc. Soldiers were always
present in the nests and gynaecoid workers were noticed in several
(Taormina 14th April, etc.). Very large and brightly coloured
workers (¥ ¥ not 2{ 2{) were found in a nest at Mola on April 24th.
In a nest under a large stone in a wall at Taormina (April 15th) the
following myrmecophiles occurred—the Cricket Myrmecophila ochracea ;
the beetles Coluocera formicaria, Oochrotus unicolor, and Merophysia
formicaria var. sieula; the Fish-Insect Lepisma aurea; and the little
Spring-tail Cyphodeirus albinos. Some aphids (Tetraneura ulmifoliae,
Baker), occurred in another colony on April 18th.
Camponotus (Myrmoscirus) rufoglaucus ssp. uicans, Emery.—On
March 16th a number of workers was taken running on a wall, and a
single deiilated female in a drain by the roadside on 20th at Palermo.
At Mondello, on March 17th, a mixed colony of this ant and Aphaeno-
gaster testaceo-pilosa var. sentpolita, was found under a stone. At Capo
S. Andrea on April 9th, a very large colony containing a deilated
female, soldiers, and workers, was found.
Camponotus (Myrmentoma) gestroi, Kmery.
Camponotus (Myrmentoma) lateralis, Ol.—Workers of this pretty ant
were observed on walls, and running on the herbage, etc., at Taormina
in April.
* Camponotus (Myrmentoma) lateralis ssp. spissinodis, Forel.—A
colony of this subspecies was found under a stone at Taormina on
April 21st, a number of winged females being present in the nest.
Camponotus (Myrmentoma) sichelt, Mayr.
Camponotus (Colobopsis) truncatus, Spin.
At the base of a rock at Taormina, on April 26th, I found a number
of the larvae of the fly, Vermileo deyeer’, Macq., in their funnel- shaped
pits which they construct, after the manner of the true “ant-lions”
(Myrmeleon), to entrap ants.
The large grey woodlouse Porcellionides myrmecophilus, Stein.,
taken on April 21st and 24th, was taken by Budde-Lund in Dalmatia
in nests of Messor structor, and by Dollfus in ant’s nests at Lentini,
Sicily.
Since be first part of this paper was publehes Professor = Sis
Tycheoides ane Koch., was taken with Pibiaen tn asta ila: at
Taormina on April 17th; V'etraneuwra ulmifoliae, Baker, (uli, L.) with
Tetramorium caespitum ssp., semilaeve, at Mola on April 24th; and
Anuwraphis siciliensis, Theob. (a new species), with Cremastogaster
sordidula, at Taormina on April 27.
Mr. E. E. Green, has also seen the white globular objects, which
were being carried by Cremastogaster laestrygyon % % on April 7th, and
he suggests that they might possibly be immature coccids allied to
Margarodes.
P.S.—Mr. Green also tells me that the coccids I took in a nest of
Camponotus sylvaticus, at Bordighera on February 18th, 1925, are
Erriococcus bahiae, EKhrh., see Ent. lec. 88, 17 (1926).
10 THE ENLOMOLOGIST’S RECORD.
Note on Dr. Verity’s Method of Nomenclature.
By G. T. BETHUNE-BAKER, F.L.S., F.Z.S.
On page 121 ante my friend Dr, Verity refers to Boisduval as the
author of Hirsutina rippertii, He says “ If, following Courvoisier, we
fix on Boisduval as the author of rippertit because Freyer’s figure . .
: is unreliable,” and he then follows with the conclusion that the
nymotypical race is from Digne; in doing this he, unfortunately,
ignores the Code altogether, for the original author of r/partii is Freyer,
and this being so Boisduval cannot be the author of it. It should
however, after Freyer’s spelling, be ripartii—then, I fear, I do not
agree that the figure is unreliable. It is quite a good figure of that
insect, the only thing is that the white of the stripe and of the irides
of the ocellations is turned blackish-grey as so often happened with
the old authors, and I am sorry to say with those of our day also, for
in some of Oberthiir’s beautiful plates the white markings have already
gone blackish.
The point is that no one can transfer a published name of one
author to another author, as my friend purposes. Ripartii, Freyer,
must remain (being described and figured) riparti?, Freyer, and cannot
be listed as rippertit, Boisduval.
Again on the following page Dr. Verity names a form of /’. cortdon
rufosplendens, ealling it a race and he says it is “characterised by the
bright warm tawny underside of the hindwings in a large percentage
of individuals.” I want to emphasise the statement ‘‘a large percentage,”
it may I suppose be 80, 40, or 50% or possibly even inore, but this
does not constitute a race, it is merely a very common variation.
A race is generally accepied as a form, that replaces in a given
area, the typical form. This is by no means the case with rvfo-
splendens. Referring to Ll’. meleager, my friend describes superlunulata
from a single specimen ; it is evidently a ‘sport,’ or unusual aberra-
tion, and most of us, at least in Kngland, consider this constant
naming of aberrations and pseudo-races, a really reprehensible practice.
As long ago as 1916, Vol. XX VIIL., when dealing with the varieties of
P. coridon, Dr. Chapman winds up his paper with these words * the
terrible multiplication of vavietal names we suffer from, is an evil that
ought in some way to be checked.” The great majority of British
authors entirely agree with Dr. Chapman, whilst the Zoological Record
has decided not to list them.
It is getting more obvious as time goes on, that in this country,
at least, this great multiplication of names is considered not only
unnevessary, but also unscientific and | would appeal to Dr. Verity to
help us to reduce the practice.
A sub-species, a race, a local form or a form! What are they ?
By G. T. BETHUNE-BAKER, F.L.S., F.Z.S.
The continual wppearance of Dr. Verity's papers in this magazine,
describing and naming what he considers new varieties, often on
minute and variable differences and calling them races, when they
generally are only a per centage of the species being dealt with, has for
NOTES ON NOMENCLATURE. 11
sometime been disturbing my peace of mind on these matters and leads
me now to ask for, and if possible get, a discussion on what constitutes
a sub-species, or a race, or a local form
My own opinion is that a sub- species and a race are almost
synonymous, if there be a distinction, the term race is very, very, little
lower in the category than sub-species.
A local form is a concept much lower in the category.
A sub-species or a race, therefore, entirely replaces what is generally
regarded as the typical race in a given area.
A local form does not replace the stem, but flies in more or less
abundance with it. I will cite a case in point—A. coridon-roystonensis,
is neither a race nor a sub-species ; it fliesin a limited area with what
we call the stem, or parent species and therefore cannot be treated as
a race.
The question also arises as to what is the difference between a
Species and a sub-species. We call for instance P. coridon, a species
or the parent species and we eall albicans, from Andalusia a sub-species,
but many scientists will say they are sub-species of one concept.
I have written this expressly to obtain the views of entomologists
on this question, and I would ask that the matter should be seriously
considered and I hope that many observers will give us their views.
Notes on Nomenclature.
By Hy. J. TURNER, F.E.S.
Race.—This term has come to be used in two ways: one as an
indefinite term often applied, in general remarks at meetings and in
field notes in our magazines, to a group of individuals found in some
particular locality, such as a field, a slope of downs, a portion of a hill-
side, with a meaning more akin to an individual brood, the offspring
of one pair, or of a number of pairs closely cohabiting ; the other
use as marking a more or less definite grade in the conception of a
species, subordinate to a subspecies. As Mr. Bethune-Baker has said,
a subspecies is that which entirely replaces the species in any locality,
and a local form does not replace the species but flies with it in more
or less numbers. He has cited roystonensis as a local form, and I may
add also one of the other forms flying in the same locality, tnequalis.
Both these are recurrent forms;. were they only occasional forms they
would both be termed aberrations. But the cortdon occurring in the
Royston area characterised by the comparative abundance of royston-
ensis, by the abundance of inequalis, by the great excess, in Most seasons,
of females over males, and by the unusual abundance of varied
aberrational forms is an example of one of the best characterised races
which we have in this country. Strange to say it has escaped the
nomenclator so far.
Var.—The old term rar. (varietus) was used for generations to
designate any and every divergence from the ordinary specifie fori”
and became so abused in its use that at present one can only recognise
it as a ‘‘term of ignorance” only indicating that the individual or
individuals are not identical with the species, and affording such a
limited amount of information as to grade as to be negligible. Thus
our grades appear to be Species, subspecies, race, form, generation,
aberration.
12 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD.
Y)OTES ON COLLECTING, ‘etc.
Acrius (Spainx) convoLyvuLt in GRAVESEND.—A living specimen
(imago) of A. convolvuli, was brought to me on November 23rd last,
it having flown into a window in this town. Is not this an extra-
ordinarily late date for this insect to be on the wing ?—F. T. Grant,
87, Old Road West, Gravesend.
Morn ann Parror Pracur.—In the Daily Mail of November 23rd,
appeared a paragraph from their Correspondent at Sydney, N.S.W.,
writing under date of October 22nd, reporting a plague of moths at
Port Macquarie on so extensive a scale that the town was stated to
have been almost black with them, but what strikes me as more curious
is that simultaneously the town was visited by thousands of green
parrots which the children are reported to have caught in hundreds on
fences and fruit trees. This combination appears so remarkable that
it may be worth recording.—G. C. Lemay, F.E.S.
[In the Abstract of Proceedings of the South Londou Entomological
Society for Jan. 9th, 1890, is the following extract of a letter bearing
on the above, “ Mr. F. E. Strong, writing from Melbourne on Nov.
14th last, stated that about three weeks prior to the date of his letter,
Williamstown was invaded by a vast swarm of moths, which came
into the houses and churches, and the sea was literally covered with
their dead bodies. When these were washed up by the waves they
formed a long line, over a mile in length, averaging about a foot in
breadth and about four inches deep. They appeared to be all of one
Species, The matter had been discussed in the Melbourne papers, but
without any satisfactory explanation being arrived at.’””—Hy.J.T.)
Suearinc 1x New Minion, Hants, Aurumn, 1926.—Results were
not very good, but much better than during the summer. The follow-
ing insects were taken :—6 Ayrotis segetum, 4 A. puta, 10 A. suffusa=
ypsilon, 9 Noctua c-nigrum, 7 N. rubi, 68 N. wanthographa, 6 N. plecta,
7 Apamnea secalis=didyma, 2 Aporophyla nigra, 738 Phlogophora meticu-
losa, 1 Laphyyma exvigua (in fine condition), 2 Omphaloscelis lunosa, 7
Amathes lychnidis, 1 Xanthia lutea, 1 X. fulvago, and 7 Cidaria
(Dysstroma) truncata. It will be noted from the above list that many
common insects are entirely missing and that many insects that are
usually very common are scarce.—Linur. 8. A. Jones, ‘ Biskrah,”
New Milton, Hants.
Autumn nores From §. Devon.—Colias croceus (edusa) ; I saw only
two, in mid-September. Leucania wnipuncta: a fine male taken at
sugar on the evening of August 24th. JL. vitellina: one female at
sugar, on September 21st, apparently just freshly emerged. Laphygma
(Caradrina) exiqua: This species was of very fairly regular occurrence
throughout September, with an average of two or three per night.
The first was seen on September 8rd. On September 10th, I took
eleven /.. ewigua and the following night seven turned up. All were
at sugar. In one example the two stigmata on the left forewing upper-
side are united to form a yellow streak, the right side being normal.
I may add that | took a specimen at light at Bournemouth on October
7th. Heliothis peltiyera: Only two turned up at sugar, a male on
NOTES ON COLLECTING, 18
September 18th, and a female on September 20th. H. armigera: I
was fortunate enough to take three H. armigera all at sugar. The
first appeared on September 3rd, a male apparently in an exhausted
condition as it rested quietly on the patch in a manner quite different
from that of the other two. It was also much paler than the later,
freshly emerged ones. | therefore concluded it had flown a consider-
able distance. ‘The second was taken on September 10th, apparently
freshly emerged, and the third on September 18th, also in perfect
condition, Cidaria (Orthonoma) obstipata (fluviata): two or three
turned up at sugar on September 11th. One female laid eggs freely
and at the present time (October 12th) most of the larvae have gone
into the pupal stage. I also took a male at Bournemouth on October
7th. Dianthoecia luteago race barrettii: larvae and pupae were exceed-
ingly common in certain spots, sometimes as many as six or seven from
a single plant, but more usually singly —H. B. D. Kerriewett, Caius
College, Cambridge.
HeLiopHoBus HISPIDUS AT BournemourH.—In a certain small area
of sand-hills near Bournemouth there was an abundance of H. hispidus
sitting on the marram grass among the dunes. ‘They appear to belong
to a particularly large race and to have a broader white border than
those | have seen from the Devonshire coast. They could also be
picked up in the daytime under the gas lamps.—Isip.
Lare Emercencss in 1926.—Dianthoecia carpophaga, commenced to
emerge on June 17th, and finished July 24th. Dianthoecia conspersa,
commenced to emerge June 26th, and finished Aug. 8rd, some pupae
lying over. Nenria saponariae, commenced to emerged June 30th,
finished July 14th, (usually well out by June 10th.). Agrophila
trabealis (sulphuralis,) first and only emergence Aug. 2nd, remaining
pupae lying over.—H. M. Edelsten, (F.E.8.), Hillside, Lindfield
Sussex,
GXYURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES.
A meeting of the Entomological Club was held on Tuesday,
November 2nd, 1926. Mr. H. Willoughby Ellis in the chair. Owing
to the Chairman leaving London for Sevenoaks, Kent, his London
residence was not available for the meeting which was consequently
held at the Junior Carlton Club, Pall Mall, 8.W.1. Members present
in addition to the Chairman—Mr. Robert Adkin, Mr. H. St. J. K.
Donisthorpe, Prof. E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., Mr. Jas. E. Collin, Dr.
Harry EHltringham, Mr. W. J. Kaye, Lord Rothschild, F.R.S.
Visitors present—Dr. K. Jordan, Mr. R. W. Lloyd, Capt. N. D. Riley,
Mr. G. C. Leman, Dr. Guy A. K: Marshall, F.R.S., Mr. W. Rait-
Smith, Dr. E. A. Cockayne, Mr. EK. C. Bedwell, Dr. S. A. Neave,
Mr. K. Ernest Green, Mr. Granville Proby. The eight members of the
Club were present, this being the second occasion in the history of thew
Club on which the whole membership was present. The members and
visitors were received in the ante-room where conversazione was held.
Dinner was served at 8 o’clock in the Parliamentary Library on the
historic Round Table. At a late hour the party broke up after spending
a most enjoyable evening.
14 THK ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD,
We would like to call our readers attention to the List of Geometers
of the British Islands, whieh we have published. It includes all the
named varieties and synonyiws up to the date of issue. Not only is it
useful as a list of all such but itis also an index to the references of
each species in Seitz, Meyrick and South as the most commonly used
books for consultation on the British species. In addition, as the
arrangement is new to our British collectors an index has been added
to the List to facilitate reference.
The Derbyshire Entomological Society bas recently issued a /ast
of the Lepidoptera of Derbyshire, compiled by H. C. Hayward, M.A.,
F.E.S. It is a praiseworthy piece of work and will be of great use to
all local workers and to visitors who spend a few leisure weeks in this
beautiful county of dales. It is arranged on the system of Meyrick’s
Handbook, which although based on one character and therefore mis-
leading as to general relationships, and also shirks difficult species such
as Apamea gueneei, Scoparia basistriyalis, etc., yet gives most useful,
workable and reliable mechanical keys of species placed in the various
genera. One wishes Lists like this to be of use to the beginner, who
will have to use it with books like South’s Butterflies and Moths. It
has been pointed out ad nansewn that minimus, astrarche and phlaeas
(sic) ave in no way congeneric ; neither are argiolus and icarus, nor are
they Lycacna. One does not like to criticise hardly this most useful
work on distribution and recording, but one does feel that it is only by
the careful editing of local lists and the comparison with the latest
determinations, that stability can be attained in our nomenclature and
systematics for the coming generation of students. We want them to
start, where we older ones leave off, and not where we or our forefathers
began. It is our duty to the future to give the new generation a fair
start and not leave them to work it all out again with consequent
delay of progress.
Pars 83 of the Lepidopterorum Catalogus bas just come to hand.
It lists the whole of the names which have been applied to the species
in the genus Ziyaena found in the Palaearectic Region. The author is
the well-known specialist of the “ Burnet” family, Dr. H. Burgeff.
He lists 4 new species of bis own describing and divides the 74 species
into 12 subgenera, using for these last the 4 names given in Hiibner’s
Verz. and adding 8 of his own names. He quotes the date of Hiibner’s
Verz. as 18222.” Sherborn, Prout and Durrant have put this
portion of the list as issued in 1820, basing their views on contem-
porary references and peculiarities of certain letters. When one turns
to the varietal names, which have been used, one is appalled at the
enormous number, most of them only having been used once or twice
in literature. One can only hope that the future will prove that many
are synonyms given by those, who rush into naming without adequate
knowledge of what has already been done. 7%. purpuralis bas 24 pages
of such, 4%. exulans has nearly 2 pages, 7%. achilleae has 4 pages, Z.
meliloti bas 8 pages, 7. filipendulae has 8 pages, 7. trifolii has 8 pages,
and Z. lonicerae has 24 pages. The author details all the uses of the
various names. Tor instance the loti of Esper is treated as a synonym
of achilleae with a ? and also as one of angelicae with a ?. Stephens
loti is a synonym of lonicerae. Verity’s loti (nt. Rec.) one of trans-
alpina, While Hubner's lutt (Sammi. 82.) is treated as a synonym of
REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 15
Z. meliloti, bis loti (Samml. 32) as a synonym of a form of Z. trans-
alpina witb a ?, and his loti (Beitr.) as one of 7. elegans. The amount
of work put into a Catalogue of this description is amazing, and one
can only say that no student of any pretention can work without such
at hand always. Errors there may be, for it is humanly impossible to
personally verify every reference with the original, and printers have a
knack of inverting numbers, and other idiosyncrasies which are very
annoying. However the part is another instalment of a most useful
and admirable series, and a great credit to the originator and publisher
of the Catalogus, Dr. Junk, of Berlin.
JIREVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS,
Tue Hureroprera or Hastern Norra America, with especial
Reference to the Kaunas of Indiana and Florida. By W.S. Blatchley,
LL.D. The Nature Publishing Company, Indianapolis, pp. 1116, 12
plts. and 215 text figures.—The present work is a book for practical
field-naturalists written by a past-master in the outdoor study of “ other
orders’ of the American fauna. A quarter of a century ago the author,
Mr. W. 8. Blatchley, published a similarly grounded volume, The
Coleoptera of Indiana; six years later he produced The Weevils of N.
America; and six years ago The Orthoptera of North-eastern America.
For more than forty years, he tells us, he has studied the Hemiptera,
and to-day we have the results of his labours marshalled for the use
of future students of the Order in this new work. The author claims
that he has not written for the specialist, but for the tyro; he has used
simple language for his characterisation of the families and genera with
keys leading up to them. The species are diagnosed with clear and
adequate descriptions in accord with the full and sufficient key-tables
including every species in the area dealt with. ‘To the description of
each species is appended a very interesting account of the life-history,
habits, habitats, distribution, food of the immature stages and often
literary references culled from previous writers or from the information
of his correspondents as well as from his own field experiences. Thus
the identification of a species 1s rendered the more certain than if the
description alone were furnished, and renders the volume an
eminently educational book.
In the matter of illustration we confess we are greedy, for like Oliver
Twist we “ask for more.” There are 1253 species dealt with and these
are illustrated by 12 plates and 215 figures, many of these being
composite and consisting of a large number of details of structure, to aid
in the morphological differentiation of the various groups and genera
or in the case of very closely allied species. Wherever one opens the
book, one finds evidence of the practical knowledge of a field worker
aided by skill in pourtraying the species as it lives and as it reposed in
the cabinet of the collector. —
The matter is admirably arranged and properly displayed on the
1116 octavo pages, with an excellent Index by genera and a Biblio-
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Duzee and of .H. M. Parshley for further consultation.
The author is to be congratulated on the success of his persistent
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and energetic work carried on for nearly half a century and we hope
that the book will receive the support it deserves, published, as we
privately understand, at the sole expense of the author, and costing in
these times a not inconsiderable amount. No mean part of the
appearance of the book is due to the care which the printer has shown
in carrying out his technical share.—H.J.T.
Novirates Macroneprpoprerotocicak.—A Catalogue of the Palae-
arctic Macrolepidoptera not contained in, or newly described since, the
publication of Seitz. By Otto Bang-Haas. I Band up to 1920. Dr,
Staudinger and A. Bang-Haas. Dresden-Blasewitz.—This is the first
attempt of the new generation of the ‘‘ Firma Staudinger ” to follow in
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Seitz encyclopaedic work. This first volume covers to the year 1920.
A second section will cover 1920-1925. A further part will deal with
subsequent additions. An endeavour will be made to include many
described forms omitted in Seitz, such as numerous forms described by
Tutt in his British Butterflies I-IV. and British Noctuae, only some of
which were included in that work. Of course ina work like the
present it is an easy matter to point out omissions and errors in
numerical references ; it is so absolutely necessary for the latter to be
checked and checked again with the originals to secure correctness, a
long, difficult and tedious matter almost impossible for one alone.
Then, in the final proofs printers will often invert numbers and make
such references absolutely hopeless. That a great advance has been
made during the period from 1906 to 1920 is well shewn by the fact,
that of machaon no less than 71 named forms have been added, to
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The enormous number of forms added to the species of the genus
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The species are emphasised by Clarendon letters; the date of description
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Hybridisation Experiments with T. variata and T. obeliscata, Dr. &. A. Cockayne,
MA, FEELS. 3 i's oe uk 1
Ants and some wirindontitthe of Sicily, na Deniochbent: F.Z. 8. BiH Sse we 6
Note on Dr. Verity’s Method of Nomenclature, G. T. Bethune- nie F.L.S., F.E.S. 10
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PARACLETUS DONISTHORPEI, sp. nov.
Fig. 1.—A. Head and antenna of apterous 9 ; B. Apex of antenna; C. Rostrum;
D. Hindtarsus. Fig. 2.—Antenna of alate ¢ of Paracletus cimiciformis. Fig.
3.—Head and antenna of alate ¢ Paracletus donisthorpei. Fig. 4.—Ornamen-
tation of body of alate ¢ P. donisthorpei.
TWO NEW APHIDES FROM ANTS’ NESTS, 17
Two new Aphides from Aunts’ Nests. (Plate 17.)
By FRED. V. THEOBALD, M.A., V.M.H., F.E.S.
1. Paracletus donisthorpet, sp. nov.
Alate viviparous 2. Antennae not quite half the length of the
body, of 6 segments; I. a little wider but much shorter than II.; III.
from 2-24 times length of II. with many round and oval sensoria all
over it; IV. from 14-12 of III., with many sensoria; V. about 3 of
IV., with four sensoria and a large apical primary one; VI. small, a
little more than 4 of V.; ‘nail’ very small; all the segments with
minute hairs. Hyes large, with a large ocular process. Three marked
stemmata. Head rounded in front, with a median line and many
minute hairs. Pro-, Meso-, and Meta-notum dark, the pronotum
slightly paler than others. Abdomen with dark median bars, the
middle ones irregularly divided in the centre. Apex dusky. Cauda
rounded. Legs long, dark, many minute hairs on tibiae. Body with
minute hairs. Wings normal. Length, 8mm.; wing expanse,
79mm.
Apterous viviparous 9 .—Pale, minutely hairy; a small area in
front of pronotum showing reticulate sculpturing: apex of rostrum
dark. [Eyes large, many facetted, dark. Head convex, with a median
line. Body oval; segments well defined. Antennae reaching to or
just past 2nd coxae, finely hirsute, hairs very short, those on segment
III. are + of its breadth; of 5 segments; [. and Il. about equal in
length; III. long, longer than 1V.+V.; IV. a little more than half of
III. and longer than V.; V. with very short, blunt ‘nail,’ which has
one large and four small sensoria at its base. Rostrum reaches base
of 3rd coxae, apical segment longer and narrower than the penultimate,
with minute hairs. Legs moderately long, with very many short pale
hairs, those on tibiae are 42 their breadth: Ist pair of legs a little
shorter than 2nd; 2nd than 3rd. Cauda rounded andhairy. Length,
2°9 to 3mm.
Locatiry.—Taormina, Sicily, 20.1V.26.
Osservations.—Described from several mature apterae and one
alate female, taken by Mr. H. Donisthorpe in the nests of ants,
Tapinoma nigerrima. Two apterae show faint traces of a notch each
side of antennal segment III. It differs from Paracletus cimiciformis,
Heyden, in the antennae of the apterous female having only five
antennal segments and in the less reticulate sculpturing of the body
and still more in the structure of the alate female antenna; the eyes
of the apterae are also large and multifacetted. It approaches in the
latter respect Mordwilko’s P. portskinskyi, but differs in the antennae
being of five segments and the shorter antennal hairs; in portskinskyt
those on segment III, are from £ to 2 its width, in donisthorpei they
are +. It may be that it is only a variety of this species, which is very
distinct from cimiciformis, the marked difference in the eyes of the
apterae clearly demarking it and also the same with donisthorpei,
Exactly what Mordwilko’s cimicitormis is I do not know, certainly not
the species of Heyden’s that Del Guercio, Tullgren and myself have
taken to be cimiciformis, for Mordwilko states that it is not sculptured
and the antennal hairs are much longer. The name for this new
species was first proposed by Mr. F. Laing.
Fesruary 15TH, 1927.
18 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD,
2. Anuraphis siciliensis, sp. nOv.
Apterous viviparous 2 .—Pale, with two dusky areas on the pronotum
and dark median bars behind, the first between the cornicles. Body
rather elongate. Antennae same colour as body, apices of segments
III. and all [V., V. and VI. dark, in one all JI]. dark. Cornicles,
cauda and anal plate dark. Eyes black and red. Legs same colour as
body ; femora, apices of tibiae and the tarsi darkened. Antennae not
half the length of the body; segment I. a little longer than II.; III.
about twice as long as IV.; IV. not quite as long as V.; base of VI.
not quite equal to V.; flagellum equal to [V.+V.; all from III. to VI.
imbricated, with a few short hairs. Abdomen with small rounded
lateral papillae, rather darkened, very much smaller than in ranuneult
(Kalt). The abdomen also shows six small irregular dark spots or
eroups of 2-8 small spots each side. There is one pair of posterior
median papillae and in one specimen a single one in front of them.
Cornicles about half the length of antennal segment III., cylindrical
or slightly contracted at base and apex, imbricate. Cauda small, more
or less hidden beneath the body, posterior border rounded; spinose,
with short hairs. Anal plate narrow, spinose, with a few long. hairs.
Tibiae with many short hairs. Length, 1:2-1-8mm.
Locatity-—Taormina, Sicily, 27.1V.26.
Oxservations-—Described from three specimens taken by Mr. H.
Donisthorpe in the nests of the ant, Cremastogaster sordidula, They
resemble Aniraphis ranunculi in regard to the rounded lateral papillae,
but they are much smaller than in ranunculi and the body quite a
different shape. rom A. heraclei, Koch, they also differ in shape and
the presence of a dark bar between the cornicles. The shape also
separates it from Koch’s angelicae and farfarae.
Amongst the other Aphides taken in Ants’ nests by Mr Donisthorpe
in Sicily were Tetraneura ulmifoliae, Baker, and Tycheoides albicornis,
Koch.
Miscellaneous Notes from Argentina. VII.
By KENNETH J. HAYWARD, F.E.S.
Description OF THE LARVA OF 'T'HYREION OLIVoFUSA, Doanin.—(lmag-
ines Nos. 6373. 6375 to 7. 6379-81.) A somewhat variable larva of
which the more advanced form has been taken as typical and
descriptions of the variations given.
Length 28 to 30mm. Head shiny yellowish green.
Colour green, covered throughout with fine white speckling, the
alimentary channel showing bluish green and internal organs showing
yellowish dorsally on the 9th segment. Segmental folds yellowish. A
lateral line low down of minute white spots. Dorsally on each segment
a pair of setae, greyish, from tiny white tubercles, a second similar
pair anteriorly more widely spaced. The posterior pair more defined
on the first and second abdominal and penultimate segment.
This was by far the most usual colouring of a number examined,
and was noted as specimen 1. (Cf. imago No. 6877.)
Specimen 2, of which three were taken had the white tubercles
slightly shaded laterally with biscuit colour and a darker line of
shading above the lateral line mentioned. (Cf. imago No. 6376.)
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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES FROM ARGEN'INA,. 19
Specimen numbered 8, which was not uncommon, had the dark
shade above the lateral line tinged with dark reddish biscuit, which
colour extended above the shade centrally on each segment. The
alimentary channel is more defined and a dark dash begins to appear
between the forward pair of tubercles on segments 5, 6 and 12, and
all the tubercles are black in place of white. (Cf. imago No. 6379.)
Specimens numbered 4, show a further advance in colouring. The
lower lateral line is more defined and with a few definite black specks,
the reddish suffusion of the upper portion of the lateral line less
defined, the central patch of colour remaining as an isolated mark.
The black dorsal tubercles increase in size, and the dark streak between
those on the 5, 6 and 12, is more distinct. (Cf. imago No. 6375.)
Specimens numbered 5, of which only two were taken, probably
indicate the typical colouring. The length does not vary in any of the
specimens mentioned. Colouring of these specimens numbered 5
somewhat lighter green. Alimentary channel indistinct but the light
yellowish colouring on the 9th segment still prominent. The lateral
line well defined and with two black specks on each segment on this
line. ‘The lateral stripe above this line appearing bluish grey and
consisting of a broken black line on a bluish green ground. Above
this line centrally on each segment and united with line a patch of
biscuit colour. A central dorsal line appearing as a series of dashes,
black on segments 5, 6 and 12, and greyish black elsewhere, due to the
dash being lighter in its centre than at the edges. On the 2nd and
8rd thoracic, a transverse line of four minute black spots, the tubercles
mentioned above all more defined, those on the 5th, 6th, and 12th
segments very prominent. (Cf. imago No. 6380.)
A sixth specimen was very yellowish, but this may have been due to
the imminence of pupation. (Cf. imago No. 6381.)
These specimens were all separated with a view to noting dates of
the expected changes of colour, it being naturally supposed that the
coloration would alter in the order the insects are above numbered.
Asa matter of fact no change of colour took place in any of the
specimens and all pupated between noon on December 20th, and noon
on December 21st. The method of pupation was to chew up a portion
of the cardboard bottom of the pill box, and with this and a dead
portion of the foodplant to form a small cavity. The pupae are light
chestnut 1n colour and somewhat elongated.
Foodplant Martynia montevidensis, Cham. Locally known as
**Cuernos del Diable,’”’ (Devil’s horns), presumably from the shape of
the seed pods.
Found at Villa Ana on December 18th, 1925.
Specimens pupated as stated on December 20th. Emerged on
December 29th and 30th.
Empty pupae cases sent to B.M. under number 6378.
Specimens varied from dark green to some with very little green,
but it was not possible to correlate colour variation of imagines with “a
that of larvae.
ADDITIONAL DESCRIPTIVE NOTE ON THE LARVA OF THYREION OLIVOFUSA,
Doex.—
Since writing my previous note on the larvae of this species, I have
found more colour forms from larvae feeding on a fresh foodplant,
p20,
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namely Eupatorium hecatanthun, (DC) Back. (Compositae) locally
called ‘ Tembetary.”’
The most distinctive of these forms is one where the larva is dark
rose in colour, so exactly resembling the colour of the flower of this
foodplant as‘ to be indistinguishable from it at any distance. "The
larvae appear to feed on the flower heads of this plant.
In view of the diversity of colours affected by this larva, I have added
below a list of the tubercles. Previously I was unable to separate these
with any certainty owing to their very small size, and the lack of the
neccessary magnification. However by bleaching a specimen with
black tubercles I am now able to give those on all segments except the
last two abdominal the tubercles here being too small to deal with.
First Thoracic segment, Anterior trapezoidal, Posterior trapezoidal, a
secondary pair of tubercles more narrowly spaced between the posterior
trapezoidals ; supraspiracular, a pair of secondary tubercles immediately
over the spiracle one slightly above and larger than the other; prespir-
acular with a secondary tubercle, smaller, nearer the spiracle and also
prespiracular, a horizontal pair of marginal tubercles.
Second thoracic segment, Anterior trapezoidal and a secondary pair
of slightly smaller tubercles; «a well defined supraspiracular; a
smaller secondary tubercle immediately below the supraspiracular and
but faintly defined, postspiracular ; subspiracular low down, and
marginal. ‘The third thoracic segment identical with the second.
Abdominal segments, anterior and posterior trapezoidal, supraspira-
cular (well defined and immediately over the spiracle), postpiracular,
(on the seventh and eighth segments this tubercle becomes sub-
spiracular, iv.) subspiracular (very small and directly beneath spiracle),
a very small lateral and faintly defined marginal. The tubercles on
segment 9 and the anal segment are too small to be distinguished
with the power at my disposal.
Suggestions on Nomenclature.
By B. C. 8S. WARREN, F.E.S.
Most readers of the Hntomologist’s Record, will heartily weleome
the articles on Nomenclature in the January number, by Mr. Bethune-
Baker and Mr. Turner. One hopes that these articles may be taken
as a sign that the Editorial Staff of the Record is going to make a
serious effort to bring about some real reform in these matters.
In the spring of 1925, I bad a conversation with Mr. Bethune-
Baker on the question of subspecies, in which I ventured to express
my regret that in the revision of the International Code, whieh had
just been finished by the British National Committee, the article (No.
14) which, if accepted, will deprive names of a lower rank than a sub-
species from any status in nomenclature, did not give any real
definition of what was to be taken as constituting a subspecies. I
pointed out that in writing my monograph of the Tribe Hesperiidi,
which was published last November, I had been obliged to adopt some
definite definition of the degrees of variation, and that any author of a
systematic work nist do so, and that if only the National Committee
would give them a lead in the matter, all workers would probably
SUGGESTIONS ON NOMENCLATURE, 21
follow the line they adopted. After our conversation, Mr. Bethune-
Baker very kindly read over the MS. of that portion of my work
dealing with this question, but at the time he could not agree with my
point of view. Subsequently at one of the meetings of the
Provisionary Committee on Nomenclature at the International
Congress at Ziirich, I proposed that article 14 of the Code should
define a subspecies on the lines, which I had adopted in my monograph,
but the Committee decided that there were too many difficulties in
the way of doing so. It was of course, then too late for me to alter my
definitions, as my work had been finished for some time. It is therefore
a pleasant surprise to see now that the definitions put forward by Mr.
Bethune-Baker and supported by Mr. Turner, are practically those
which I had been advocating, and have employed (see T'rans. Ent. Soc.
1926, pp. 24 and 25) with the slight difference that I restricted the
use of “form’’ to purely seasonal forms, as distinct from races
occurring simultaneously with the type.
The question raised by Mr. Bethune-Baker as to the difference
between a species and a subspecies, of course, is too large a subject to
deal with at all adequately in-a brief note like the present. I would,
however, just point out that Mendelism gives a suggestion that the
difference is to be found in connection with Reversion.
There exist in nature, beyond all doubt (although some people
maintain we cannot prove the fact), certain races, which have entirely
superseded the parent form in a given locality. Some such races (7.e.,
subspecies) have been shown by Mendelian experiments to be capable
of reverting to the parents, by the introduction of what is called the
“complementary factor,’ which they are assumed to have lost in thecourse
of evolution. The factor for the parent form is therefore still latent
in the subspecies, but without the artificial re-introduction of the
complementary factor it cannot be developed, and reversion would be
impossible.
The constitution of such a subspecies must then, as noted, contain
the factor for the parent form minus the complementary factor and
plus some newly evolved factor. If, in the further stages of evolution
this subspecies lost the parent factor (which, as it had for generations
been unable to assert itself, while other factors had been developing,
would seem most likely to happen) it would then become a new
species. In this new species neither the old parent factor nor its
complementary factor would be inherent, it therefore could not revert
naturally nor be made to do so artificially. ‘Tbe consideration of these
facts, led me to adopt the principle of elimination of the type race, as
being necessary to the subspecific standing of any race, and to assume
that that standing coincided with the loss of the complementary factor;
i.e., the inability to revert naturally. One can therefore assume the
following degrees of difference: Species; a race which cannot revert, or
be made to do so by accidental means ; subspecies, a race which cannot
revert naturally, but can by accidental means; race (occurring with
the type) a race which can revert naturally. To apply this test to
a doubtful race, is obviously beyond the limits of practical possibility,
at any rate in most cases, but it helps one to realise the importance of
excluding any form from the rank of subspecies, if even only a very
few individuals of the type can still be found among its members, for
the presence of the few plainly shows that the complementary factor
has not yet been completely eliminated.
22 LTH KNLOMOLOGIST’S RECORD,
Lastly, to mention another important point in Mr, Bethune-Baker's
articles ;—the multiplication of names. Anyone turning over the pages
of Bang-Haas’ new catalogue, will be appalled at the array of names
listed, while not the least serious aspect of the matter is the great
increase in late years of so-called ‘‘races’’ and “subspecies.” ‘The
preposed alteration in the Code, will certainly have the effect of, so to
speak, killing off aberrations and multiplying subspecies; and until
some drastic control is installed on the publishing of new names
this multiplication of them will never cease. Kncouraged by the fact
that my previous suggestions seem to have found favour in the eyes of
our Editorial Staff, | would again make a suggestion: the remedy for
this trouble lies in the bands of the Editors of entomological journals.
If all the Editors of all English entomological periodicals or other
entomological publications, would unite in refusing to publish any new
name, wnless it came up to some previously accepted standard, the desired
result would be obtained. Not only this, but a further great advantage
would also be obtained, namely, authors would be compelled to describe
the insects they were naming in a full and accurate manner and to have
a considerable personal knowledge of them, which strange though it
may seem, is at present often not the case. There are plenty of
objections which can be made to this proposal (which is of course set
down here in outline) but as long as the matter is left in the hands of
authors, and is controlled by nothing more than personal taste, there
can be no hope of any improvement. It is however, most probable
that if English entomologists adopted some such system, their example
would very soon be followed in other countries.
Bang-Haas estimates that the number of names given to varieties
of Parnassius apollo is little short of 500! and points out that there
were only 14 names (counting synonyms) listed in the Staudinger-
Rebel catalogue of 1901! What use can be found in such a list?
Some of the names may refer to forms worthy of names, but which ?
Truly a case of ‘two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff, you
shall seek all day ere you find them, and” . . . . the unfortunate
systematic worker will fervently agree with Shakespere as to the use of
doing so.
Species, Subspecies and Race.
By P. P. GRAVES, F.E.S.
May I make some observations on Mr. Bethune-Baker’s and Mr.
Turner's papers on nomenclature which appeared in the last number
of this journal in the hope that they may be of assistance to those who,
one hopes, will ultimately legislate for the benefit of entomological
(and other) systematists ?
First as to a ‘species.’ Surely this is a collective concept, that of
a group comprising a variety of differences, seasonal, aberrational,
geographical and so forth, but presenting common characteristics,
which separate it from another such collective group or species.
Thus, when we speak of, say, the species P. semiargus, Rott, in general
we include therein all its named variations constant and inconstant,
such as montana, M-D., bellis, Frr,, helena, Stgr., antiochena, Led., and
SPECIES, SUBSPECIES AND RACE. 23
many more; when we speak in general of a very variable species such
as Papilio eurypylus, L., we speak not merely of the first described
form but of all the forms described. That is to say we refer to a
collectivity of forms, which may be ‘subspecies’ or ‘races’ or what
not, but include the ‘ typical’ form, ¢.e., the first described form with
the rest. The ‘typical’ form is not necessarily the most primitive
form, nor is it necessarily the ‘parent’ form. It is simply the first
described form. In his second paper (Hnt. Rec., XXXIX. p. 11), Mr.
Bethune-Baker speaks of P. coridon, Poda, as ‘a species or the parent
species’ in its relation to albicans, but while P. coridon is the name we
apply to a group of subspecies of which albicans, assuming it to be
really co-specific with coridon, is a member, have we any evidence that
the nominotypical coridon from Gratz, which Poda described, is the
ancestor of albicans? It is surely just as probable that the common
ancestor of coridon coridon and coridon albicans was different in
appearance from either of these its descendants. If, as seems to me
to be necessary, we regard a species as a group of subspecies more
closely connected with one another than with other groups, then, for
purposes of definition the use of trinomial nomenclature is necessary,
and in the case already quoted we must use the name P. coridon
coridon and not P. coridon only, when instituting any comparision
between the nominotypical coridon of Gratz in Styria and subspecies
such as olympica, Led., albicans, H.S., or syriaca, Tutt. I know that
this is disliked by some entomologists to whom it appears a ‘vain
repetition,’ but I personally feel that it is necessary in all cases when
the ‘ typical’ subspecies of a species is contrasted or compared with
any other subspecies. I do not see why the abbreviation P. c. coridon
should not be used in cases when the specific name is repeated sub-
specifically. Such a practice would save ink.
I should personally use the term ‘ subspecies’ to describe a marked
and constant variation in both sexes, which within a given geographical
area or areas entirely or almost entirely takes the place of the ‘ typical’
form of the species. I introduce eertain qualifications into this
suggested definition for the following reasons. Firstly the difference
between one subspecies and another must attain a certain degree.
Otherwise it might be permissible (to take a purely hypothetical case)
to divide such an insect as Danaida chrysippus, L., occurring in two
Deltaic provinces of Egypt into two subspecies, because the specimens
from province A taken in two seasons had on an average 21 white
spots within the black margin of the left hindwing while those from
Province B average 20 such spots. Again, the difference must be
constant. This is an especially important consideration in hot dry
regions, ¢.y., the Mediterranean region of the Palaearctic zone, where
exceptionally droughty seasons leave their mark temporarily on many
species. Thus Herr Stauder in his most interesting ‘‘ Faunula Ilyro-
Adriatica,” which has been appearing in the Zeitschrift fur Wissen-
schaftliche Insekten Biologie, repeatedly draws attention to the existence
of ‘ distress forms ’ (Kummerforme) as did Ribbe, on occasion, in his
account of the Lepidoptera of Andalusia (ris, Suppl. 1910-12). It
would be as improper to give subspecific, or even racial rank, to such
manifestations of the well-known results of malnutrition as it would
be to announce the discovery of ‘‘ Homo sapiens subsp. mediterraneus race
famelicus new race,’ on the strength of investigations among a
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community of Near Eastern refugees. Finally I would not insist that
the ‘ subspecies ’ must entirely exclude the ‘ type’ (typical subspecies)
in a given area, because firstly, negative evidence is not absolutely
conclusive and secondly, because the occurrence with the subspecies of
a very small percentage of the type, while interesting as an indication
of common ancestry, should not obscure the fact that a very large
majority of the individuals composing the subspecies at any given time
are very different from the type. To give a concrete example, some
years ago I saw at Cairo a female of M. didyma, Esp., taken in the
Eastern Desert behind Helouan, which scarcely differed at all from
many German didyma. But so far as is known every other specimen
of M. didyma (sensu lato) taken in the Desert East of Cairo and Helouan
has had a facies differing greatly from that of M.didyma didyma but
resembling that of M. didyma deserticola, Obth. It would be absurd to
deny the Egyptian insect subspecific rank such as has been given tothe
Algerian desert didyma on the ground that one M. didyma didyma had
occurred in Egypt.
I should apply the term ‘ race’ to a variation in one or both sexes
from a subspecies of the collective species, which variation occurs
constantly with the subspecies in considerable numbers in the same
area. What is a subspecies in one geographical area is at times a
‘race’ in another. In the former area it might be described con-
jecturally as a species in the making; in the latter area it might be
described with more confidence as a subspecies in the making.
As regards seasonal variation it seems to me that by a seasonal form
we should describe a variation which entirely, or almost entirely, takes
the place of the parent subspecies or race in a particular area in a
particular season, but the descendants of which always revert within
that area to the form of the parent subspecies or race. The
Mediterranean seasonal forms of H. phlaeas, L. are a good example of
this. I should like to learn the opinion of more experienced entomo-
logists as to the rank to be accorded and the name, if any, to be given
to seasonal variations occurring with the parent subspecies or race
constantly but not to the exclusion of the parent subspecies.
In certain cases Dr. Verity seems to me to have unduly strained
the meaning of the term ‘race.’ Here is an instance. In parts of
Italy the IInd Gen. of N. tayes, L., is, he states, clarus, Caradja.
Their descendants revert to N. tages tages. Nevertheless Dr. Verity
gives the collective tages of this part of Peninsular Italy the racial name
clarus, Car. I hope to deal shortly at:greater length with the seasonal
variation in parts of the Near East of Hrynnis alceae, Esp. 1 will only
here ask entomologists their opinion as to the following point.
In Palestine, some of the 1st Gen. of alceae are alceae, the rest more
or less australis, Zell. IInd and Illrd Gens. are pronounced australis,
a specimen of what appears to be an exceptional 1 Vth Gen. is alceae or
very like it.
In the Constantinople region, Ist Gen. alceae are alceae, IInd Gen.
mostly avstralis, some transitions thereto and never in my experience
alceae. The I[Ird Gen. in autumn begin by being marked australis but
in October and at the beginning of November a few stunted specimens
appear annually which make some approach to alceae. These
may be a partial [Vth Gen. though I prefer to regard them as laggards
of the I1Ird Gen. Should the Palestine alceae be called s-sp.australis
THE CLASSIFICATION OF VARIETIES. 25
because a small proportion of the forma temp. australis actually do have
alceae as descendants? The Constantinople alceae is obviously alceae
with s.f. australis as a constant variation in its IInd Gen. Is one
justified in speaking of s.f. (f.temp) australis in one case but of s-sp.
australis in the other? Ido not see myself why australis should not
be called a subspecies and a seasonal form s-sp. aut f. temp. as long as
it is made clear that it is not both at once as the use of s-sp. et f. temp.
would wrongly indicate.
Finally what is the Latin equivalent of ‘race,’ a Teutonic word ?
Should we use ‘racia’ and leave it at that, or ‘natio’ the nearest
classical equivalent ?
The Classification of Varieties and the application of the terms in
present use.
By W. H, T. TAMS, F\E.S.
In the January number of this magazine Mr. G. T. Bethune- Baker
has asked for a discussion of the terms applied to those forms which
fall into the categories below the species category.
Very few Lepidopterists appear to be familiar with, even if they
know of, the introduction to Rothschild and Jordan’s “ Revision of the
Sphingidae”’ (Novitates Zoologicae, Vol. IX. Supplement, 1903), and I
would urge anyone interested in morphology or geographical distribu-
tion, to make a thorough study of this introduction. For here we have
laid down clearly and succinctly a fund of valuable information, which
no systematist can afford to ignore.
I may perhaps be allowed to quote a portion of this introduction in
order, firstly to revive general interest therein, and secondly to utilise
it in the present discussion.
On page xliii the authors state:
“ Since. Linné applied the term varietas to the forms which are not
specifically different, we donot see any reason against the use of this
very convenient word in the same sense for all the components of a
species which differ from one another. We understand, therefore, under
variety not a particular category of the components of a species, but
employ the term for all the different Members of a species indis-
criminately. The different categories of varieties must receive special
terms in a precise classification, and special formulae must be employed
for them in a precise nomenclature.
“ We distinguish three categories of varieties, namely :—
I. Individual variety.—The following terms are employed by us:
(1) ab. = aberratio for individuals which stand outside the normal
range of variation.
(2) f. = forma io the case of di- and polymorphism. If a form
occurs rarely, it may be termed f. ab., in contradistinction to
f. norm.
(3) g-f. or @-f., if the respective form belongs to one sex only.
(4) f. loc. = forma alicuius loci, if, in the case of polymorphism,
a form is restricted to one portion of the range of the
respective variety or species.
Il. Generatory variety.—This variety is seasonal i: Lepidoptera, and
is designated as
(5) f. t.=forma tempestatis.
26 THE KN'TOMOLOGIST’S RECORD,
III. Geoyraphical variety or subspecies— This is the highest category
of varieties. As the term varietas includes also other varieties,
it cannot be employed as such for the geographical variety
except in a precise nomenclature ; either a specifying attribute
must be added (var. geogr.), or an abbreviation of another term
chosen (subsp.). But we do not see that it is at all necessary
te put any such abbreviation of a term before the subspecifle
name. We can do without the encumbrance of the
abbreviation—what we can do without is unnecessary; and
what is an unnecessary encumbrance in nomenclature,
common-sense compels us to drop—by
(6) Simply mutually agreeing that a subspecies is designated by
its name added to that of the species without any abbrevia-
tion before the subspecific name. This means simplification
of nomenclature, nothing else.”
I hope those who read fthis will bear in mind that it was written
practically a quarter of a century ago. It seems to me to be a very
comprehensive set of categories, and, in the present state of my own
knowledge, [ cannot improve on it.
I do not study butterflies, so that anything I may say regarding the
roystonensis question must be taken as the point of view of one who is
mainly interested in the general considerations. I therefore ask: Can
the above categories, without amplification, be regarded as sufficiently
comprehensive for the proper grading of a variety like roystonensis? I
may be wrong, but as I see it now, I say emphatically; Yes! The
roystonensis Variety of coridon is an individual variety according to the
above classification, and, in my opinion, falls quite satisfactorily under
the term forma alicuius loci. The fact that it is only found at Royston
has, in my opinion, no geographical significance whatever. Whether it
is a rudimentary, or vestigial, variety 1 am unable to say. I regard
that as one of the most difficult of the problems with which we are
faced. In which direction is the evolutionary process taking place, or
to put it another way, is a particular form developing or vanishing ?
Notes on Nomenclature.
By A. J. WIGHTMAN, F.E.S.
On page 10 of the present volume Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker asks
for a discussion on the meaning of the terms, subspecies, race, form,
etc., and also raises the question as to what justifies the giving of
distinctive names to insects which are merely forms of a species already
named, while on the following page Mr. H. J. Turner has some
notes on the same subject, which show how widely different are the
interpretations these two authors place upon the term “race.” If we
accept the doctrine of evolution, it follows, that species are in the
making, daily and hourly, and what was yesterday a race, may to-day
pass the crucial moment in its evolution, which makes it a subspecies,
and so on.
I doubt if any precise definition of the meaning of the terms in
question will ever be acceptable to all workers using them, and in
making, in the following notes, an attempt to define the difference
NOTE ON VARIETAL NOMENCLATURE, 27
between form, race, subspecies, etc., I claim to give no more than the
meaning, which it seems to me the terms should convey.
Variety.—Simply a specimen which does not agree with the type
description of the species to which it belongs.
Aperration.—A chance non-recurrent form, which from some
abnormal cause has developed markings quite outside the normal trend
of the variation in the species to which it belongs. Example. The
insect figured by Edward Newman on page 387 of his British Butter-
flies and Moths, as a variety of Dianthoecia capsincola.
Form.—A recurrent colour, or pattern, variation from the first
described form of the species (type). A form may occur rarely with
the type, be equally common with the type or even replace the type in
certain localities, but if a certain form is only found in a colony or
group of colonies (region) and all the membexs of this colony, or
colonies, have this special facies, then the colony becomes a race.
Kxample of a form, Xanthia fulvago form flavescens, Esp.
Racre.—A colony (or colonies) of an insect, the specific identity of
which with a named species is not in doubt, but which from long
isolation among special surroundings has developed such special
characteristics, present in all members of this community to a greater,
or lesser degree, as to constitute a race apart.
Example, Acronicta ewphorbiae race myricae. | cannot see that
coridon at Royston is a race, the typical form is plentiful, it is merely
a prolific spot for forms scarce elsewhere.
Supspecies.—The same as race, except that some doubt may exist,
as to its specific identity with the species of which it appears to bea
specialised race. Subspecies usually replace some widely distributed
species in a special area, as for example, Ayrotis ashworthii which
replaces the continental A. candelarum in these islands.
As to the question of naming forms, | think it will be readily
conceded by all, that when a species produces several distinct looking
forms, such forms need distinctive names, but the giving of names
to endless minor forms in very variable species, carries the system
beyond the bounds of usefulness, and tends to cause a certain shyness
among workers in the field of variation, towards the naming of new
and distinct forms, which should be named. A hard and fast rule as
to what degree of divergence from the typical form is necessary, before
a name is justified, is, of course, impossible, but the matter will in the
end adjust itself. Unnecessary names will be lost by reason of non-
use, while those, which serve a useful purpose, will in time become as
well known as those of the typical insects themselves.
Note on Varietal Nomenclature.
By GEORGE WHEELER, M.A., F.Z.S., F.E.S.
Having read the proof of the foregoing articles on this subject, I
feel that there is not much more that can be usefully added, but there
are just two points, more especially connected with Dr. Verity’s names,
to which I should like to refer. It seems to me that it would be
hopeless (even for the author, still more for anyone else) to memorise
the names suggested for the various generations of endless species.
a!
28 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD.
Surely the expression I. Gen., II. Gen., ete., are a sufficient distinction,
at any rate in the majority of cases, even if in such a case as Araschnia
levana and gen. II. prorsa, a special name might be desirable.
Secondly Dr. Verity’s contention, that a name used for a form of one
species is not available for a similar form in a nearly related species,
seems to me most unreasonable. On the contrary, I consider that
such a name ought automatically to be applied to all such variations,
as has been done by Courvoisier for example in his paper on Lycaenid
Variation. 1t may be remembered that I advocated this procedure in
my paper read before the International Congress of Entomology at
Oxford in 1912. On the other hand the name of one spectes ought
never to be applied to a form of some other closely related species :
ey., such names as lLycaena arion, f. alcon, or Coltas crocens, f. chryso-
theme (both of which have been employed) ought never to be sanctioned.
Nomenclature.
By THOMAS GREER.
Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker’s timely protest at the endless multiplic-
ation of so-called racial and aberrational names is to be strongly
commended. The definition of a race, as given by him; “a form
that replaces in a given area the typical form,” is clear and explicit.
How many of the legion of named races will conform with this
definition 2 How many must sink to that of a recurrent aberration ?
To quote instances at random from recent literature on the subject.
In British Noctuae and their varieties, J. W. Tutt; Supplementary
Notes by Mr. H. J. Turner, F.E.S. (Hntom. Record, Vol. XXXVIIL.)
“ Thyatira batis, L., race indecorata, Barrett, n. race, Ireland” ;—
the form indecorata occurs as a recurrent aberration in many parts of
Ireland, but does not replace the type m any stated area.
“ Cymatophora or, Scbiff., race gaelica, Kane”; perhaps the prefix,
race, is a slip of the pen; as Kane described this form as an aberration
from two examples only; one from Co. Cavan, and one from Scotland.
On the other hand to be in strict keeping with this definition, why
should not forms, which have been in the past designated as
aberrations, be advanced to the dignity of races ? such for example
Dianthoecia luteayo var. barrettii, Dbl.
[None of our authorities consider a form which is “ recurrent ”’ to
be an aberration. Referring to 7’. batis race indecorata, if it recurs im
many parts of Ireland, as Barrett and others say, it is not an ‘“ aberra-
tion’ but a recurrent ‘‘ form.’’ And the assembly, colony, group, of
Irish batis characterised by having, toquote Barrett, ‘‘ the pink colouring
of the back of the thorax and of the large spots paler or replaced by
buff,” “ frequently,” Vol. I1I., p.191, forms a race. A representative
series, of sufficient length from various parts of Ireland placed side by
side with a similar series from say 8. of England would at once
demonstrate the differentiation. A race cannot be illustrated by a
single specimen. Of O. or race gaelica Barrett distinctly says “‘ In Ireland
there is but little indication of either the pinkish or purplish tint of
ground colour which is pale grey, but with very strongly accentuated
stripes,” and he gives six areas in which it is spread. What Kane
DR. ROGER VERITY AND NOMENCLATURE, 29
called ab. gaelica (his one specimen) has, teste Barratt, been found to be
characteristic of the Irish production of this species, 7.e., a good
proportion of those so far captured are of this form. Parallel series of
sufficient size would demonstrate the differentiation as before with
batis. A race is a grade towards a subspecies and it may be more, or
less strongly characterised. There is and can be, no definite limitation.
—H.J.T.]
Dr. Roger Verity and Nomenclature.
‘Tf my work, which requires a considerable amount of time, of
labour and of expense, is not appreciated and seems even to be
considered by some as a sort of guilty proceeding, I certainly do not
wish to inflict it on anybody. Fortunately I am comforted from such
a distressing idea by the correspondence I receive continually about it,
and I know some people appreciate it. My aim is to draw out as
complete a picture as possible of the geographical variations of each
Kuropean species, carrying on the work, which has been begun in the
last twenty years by Fruhstorfer, Oberthir, Tutt, and others; and
filling up gaps by new descriptions and names. I know I am making
an effort from those, who wish to keep up with progress in knowledge,
but I have gone through it myself to follow my predecessors. I have
myself been indignant with Fruhstorfer, when he flooded us with
descriptions and names, but time and facts have shewn it was not he,
who was wrong, but I, in my ignorance and laziness. Gradually as I
put together the necessary materials, I found he was perfectly right.
Races are there, they are definite entities, not quite as sharply defined
as species, but quite enough to recognise them from each other clearly
and to establish the limits of their areas of distribution. That is the
work we have before us.
As to the question of “‘ names,” [ fully agree with my critics (your
panel of editors) that it is high time to stop naming individual forms,
except when there is a special reason to do so, and especially of giving
a name on the strength of a single character. I have been one of the
first to propose generic names for such forms (the same name for the
corresponding forms of all the species of a genus). So, I do not think,
on this line I can be convicted of having given many, and those I have
given to races and generations are very few indeed as compared with
the enormous numbers erected for individuals forms. See those given
by Raynor in Fnt. Record, 1909, to forms of A. wrticae; and see the
many of Tutt, not to speak of German authors. In Bergeff’s Catalogue
of the Zyyaenae the amount of names given to individual forms has
entirely swamped and spoilt the interesting picture it might have been
of geographical variation. And what about Parnassius apollo ?
When, however, it comes to races, I am sorry, but my conviction is
that it is technically essential to name them, just as it has been found
necessary to name species. ‘There are a score of reasons for it, but lw
am sure you need not be told which they are. Those who do not wish
to follow us in our exact analysis of Nature’s complexities can perfectly
well ignore the more recent developments of Lepidopterology, but
there seem to be plenty who do not mind a few names more or less
and are interested in our writings.” —In uirr.
80 THE WNPTOMOLOG Ist’S KECORD.
Extracts.
Race.—‘ A group of individuals having developed in the same
surrounding and exhibiting certain local features simply due to their
influence.” — Dr. Verriry.
Species —‘‘ All the endless research into the nature of the species
has been closed to-day by the removal of the sharp limits that had
been set up between species and varieties on the one hand, and species
and genera on the other.” ‘‘The word has no absolute meaning
whatever, but is only a group name, or category of classification,
with a purely relative value.” ‘I gave an analytic proof of this in my
monograph on the sponge (1872), having made a very close study of
variability in this small but highly instructive group, and shown the
impossibility of making any dogmatic distinction of species. Accord-
ing as the classifier takes his ideas of genus, species, and variety in a@
broader or in a narrower sense, he will find in the small group of the
sponges either one genus with three species, or three genera with 238
species, or 118 genera with 591 species.”—Hrnsr Harcxet.
Nomenclature.
By Hy. J. TURNER, F.E.S.
Apropos of the discussion on points of Nomenclature initiated by
my valued colleagué Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, I have reviewed some
of the customs which have grown up of late, induced, no doubt, by
the close and enthusiastic study of natural phenomena. An expression
like Arctia caja caja has always seemed to me cumbrous, unnecessary
and absurd. Arctia caja designates the species and the species as it
appeared to Linneus, that is, as Dr. Verity calls it, the nymotypical
form, The duplication of the name does not make caja any more or
any less caja than it was before. But when one reads Arctia caja caja,
L., it is undeubtedly wrong altogether. The first caja is correct as
caja, L., but the second caja, L., is obviously incorrect, and should have
the anthor’s name attached to it. But the whole thing is absurd. It
is clear that, if in an article, other than the nymotypical form is being
considered, they will be indicated by their form name, and the specific
name in such conjunction would always be held to mean the nymo-
typical form without being bolstered up by duplication.
I take from a list of captures reported in Jris, p. 188, for 1926, the
following :—HMuwoa exclamationis exclamationis, L.; Barathra brassicae
brassicae, L.; Parastictis lateritia lateritia, Hutn.; Polia dissimilis
dissimilis, Wnoch, ; Sideridis conigera econigera, F.; Amphipyra trago-
pogonis tragopoyonis, Li. ; Mormonia neonympha neonympha, Esp., ete.,
etc., pages of it, one after the other. {* Look how scientific I am!!”’
saith the author, svtto voce. |
OOTES, ON COLLECTING, ete
EREBIA GORGE SUB-SP. RAMONDI AB. TRIOPES.— While examining the
collection of M. Rondou at Gedre, Hautes Pyrénées, last August, I
remarked that he had no ab, triopes amongst his series of 1. gorge sub.
sp. ramondi. He informed me that it had never been taken in the
CURRENT NOTES. 31
Pyrénées. I told him that | had certainly taken one, if not two
specimens, in July 1924. On examining my series I find I have two,
both from the screes inside the Cirque de Gavarnie. One has all three
apical spots very well marked and large, the largest being next the costa.
The other has the costal spot very small, the other two spots being
rather larger than the average spots in the short series I have from
the Eastern Alps. In spite of the fact that sub. sp. ramondi differs so
much from the gorge of Switzerland it is interesting to note that it
follows the same line of variation.—P. Hare-THomas, F.E.S., The
Grange, Goring-on-Thames.
G)URRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES.
A meeting of the Entomological Club was held at Tring Park on
Saturday November 20th, 1926, Lord Rothschild in the Chair.—
Members present in addition to the Chairman.— Mr. H. St. John K.
Donisthorpe, Prof. EK. B. Poulton, Mr. H. Willoughby-Ellis, Mr. Jas.
K. Collin, Dr. Harry Eltringham, Mr. W. J. Kaye. Visitors present—
Dr. E. Hartert, Dr. K. Jordan, Capt. N. D. Riley, Dr.. Waterston, Dr.
Imms, Com. J. J. Walker, R.N., Mr. Arrow, Mr. Blair, Mr. Graves,
Mr. H. J. Turner, Mr. W. G. Sheldon, Mr. EK. Ernest Green; Mr.
Edelsten, Mr. W. Rait-Smith, Dr. Herbert Smith, Major Austen.
The party met at the Tring Museum at about 11 o’clock and the
magnificent collections were open for inspection and were much
appreciated throughout the visit. Several long series of Lepidoptera
were taken out of cabinets and especially arranged on the tables for the
visitors’ convenience, and many of the party inspected the portions of
the collections in which they were most interested. Luncheon was
served at one o’clock after which the Museum was again visited and
the party dispersed at sunset after spending a most enjoyable day.—
A meeting of the Entomological Club was held on December 2nd
1926 at “ Caracas,” Ditton Hill, Surbiton, Mr. W. J. Kaye in the
Chair. The members present in addition to the Chairman were Messrs.
Robert Adkin, Horace Donisthorpe, H. Willoughby- Ellis, Jas. KH. Collin.
and Dr. H. Eltringham. The Visitors present were, Dr. K. Jordan,
Capt. N. D. Riley, Messrs. F. A. Oldaker, H. H. May, W. H. T. Tams,
G. C. Leman, H. E. Andrewes, and E. Step. The meeting was called
for 6 o’clock when the guests were received in the Drawing-Room bv
Mr. and Mrs. Kaye and light refreshments were provided. ‘lhe Chair-
man’s very interesting collections acquired by many years of personal
work in Trinidad and elsewhere were on view, as were also his
interesting series of British Lepidoptera. Supper was served at 8
o’clock and a very enjoyable evening was spent, the guests dispersing
about 11 o’clock.—H.W.-E.
Another Catalogue of not quite so pretentious a character, but
equally useful in its own sphere, is the Catalogue of Indian Insects,
issued under the authority of the Government of India. Eleven parts
have so far been published, each dealing with some one family. Of
the Coleoptera, Malcolm Cameron, has dealt with the Staphylinidae,
Kleine with the Brenthidae. In Lepidoptera, Bainbrigge Fletcher with
fhe Lasiocampidae, the Amatidae (Syntomidae) and the Zygaenidae (sens.
82 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. ;
lat.). In the Diptera, Senior White with the Culicidae, Bombyliidae |
and Jiypetidae, and otber specialists with their own section. No
attempt is made to give every reference, but only a sufficiency to suggest
further information for future workers, The arrangement is very
convenient for use and each part has complete indexes of genera and
species.
We understand that Frohawk’s Putterflies, which some twelve
months ago was published at £6 6s. Od. per copy, is now being sold as
@ remainder at prices varying from 35s. to 2 guineas. We wonder
where the author comes in when this method of business is adopted.
In modern times remainders. of issues have often been put on the
market, but rarely if ever at so short an interval. Some of us who
want new books will in future “ wait and see” what happens. Those
who originally subscribed must feel a bit sore.
The Annalen of the Natural History Museum of Vienna for 1926,
contains as its chief feature the second portion of a Monograph of the
Sepsidae (Diptera) with 9 plates, by Dr. Oswald Duda. It deals with
species of the Aethiopian Region; the previous issue contained the
portion dealing with the Oriental, Polynesian and Neotropic Regions. ©
The Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Vienna has recently
published its |erhandlungen, for the two years 1924-5, consisting of
Proceedings and Memoirs of 500 pages with 49 figures and a map.
Among the Memoirs are a Monograph of Orestia (Col.) by F.
Heikertinger; observations on, Libellula by F. Prenn., the genus
Leptogastria (Dipt.) and the Asilidae by F. Hermann; and in the Proceed-
ingsconsiderations of race scoticaof Thera variata; ofthe Gnophos glaucin-
aria group; of the Lepidopterous fauna of Lower Austria, of Gravosa,
of the Tyrol, of N. West Sumatra, of the Dolomites, of Albarracin, of
Microlepidoptera of Dalmatia and many lesser items in both
Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. Dr. Rebel was in the chair for 1926,
The Entomologisches Jahrbuch, a Calendar for Insect-Collectors has
now been issued for 85 years. The Editor is Prof, Oskar Krancher of
Leipzig. Not only is there a calendar of work to be done in all orders
for each month, but there are some twenty short articles by different
authors, with numerous shorter hints. There is a literary supplement
of the scope of new works in all orders of insects and a summary of
the contents of the more important magazines. There is one plate
and numerous figures. For the price, 2s. 6d., it is. really very cheap,
as well as being a very useful companion.
Volume XVIII. of the Bolletino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale
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behind in the importance of the matter it contains and in the thorough
manner in which that matter is presented. In the over 300 quarto
pages there are five memoirs, two by Prof. Silvestri, one the Parasita-
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describing a new genus of myrmecophilous Coleoptera; one by Sig.
Grandi on the Biology and Morphology of some Hymenoptera ; one
by Sig. Candura on the Tineid Sitotroga cerealella, the pest of grain;
and the fifth by Sig. Russo dealing with the Scolytidae. All are
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CONTENTS
Two new Aphides from Ants’ Nests, Fred. V. I'heobald, M.A., F.E.S. (plate II.).
Miscellaneous Notes from the Argentine VII., K. J. Hayward, F.E.S. .. a4 18
Suggestions on Nomenclature, B. C. S. Warren, F.E.S. Rie ie AS siecle
Species, Subspecies and Race, P. P. Graves, F.H.S. .. NE ee Be a 22
The Classification of Varieties, WV. H. T. Tams, F.E.S. bs a3 he ath 25
Notes on Nomenclature, A. J. Wightman, F.E.S. ‘s ys ae ig oe 26
Note on Varietal Nomenclature, Geo. Wheeler, M.A., F.Z.S., F.E.S. “, re 27
Nomenclature, Thos. Greer “P Pie $i se = Xe al a 28
Dr. Roger Verity and Nomenclature ae We as we as i oe 29.
Extracts ze A AS . ‘3 sia 3 aie 80
Nomenclature, Hy. 7. Durner Hee Ss) 8 to bie : ~~ 30
Nores on Cotiecrinc.—Erebia gorge ab. triopes, P. Haig. Ta Br. E.S. Ne 30
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SOME SWISS MIOCRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 33
Some Swiss Micro-Lepidoptera.
By T. BAINBRIGGE FLETCHER, R.N., F.L.S., F.E.S., F.Z.S.
Of the numerous lepidopterists who visit Switzerland every year
very few pay any attention to the smaller Moths. It seems a pity that
it should be so, as so many interesting species occur and their small
bulk renders it particularly easy to carry a collection when travelling.
The species noted in the present paper were collected during two
visits in the summers of 1925 and 1926, but this does not form a
complete list of the specimens taken, as press of other work between
my return to England and my departure for India has prevented the
sorting and naming of the major portion of the material collected in
1926. Iam very greatly indebted to Mr. E. Meyrick for his kindness in
looking over and identifying my captures.
As all workers on Swiss Micro-lepidoptera must refer to Die
Schmetterlinge der Schweiz, by K. Vorbrodt and J. Miiller-Rutz (Vol. IL,
Berne, 1914), I have arranged the various species under the numbers
given in their book.
A few notes on some localities may be useful :—Villeneuve, near
Montreux; Bérisal, elevation 5,000 feet, on the Simplon Road, South
slope; Grimmialp, elevation 4,000 feet, in the Diemtigen Valley,
Bernese Alps; Arolla, elevation 6,500-7,000 feet, on the south side of
the Rhone Valley, above Sion; Evoléne, elevation 4,500 feet, below
Arolla; Simplon Dorf, elevation 5,000 feet, on the Simplon Road,
north slope; Chillon, near Montreux ; Uetliberg, elevation a little over
2,000 feet, near Zurich; Les Avants, above Montreux (my collecting-
ground was above Les Avants at nearly 4,000 feet elevation) ; Rochers
de Naye, above Montreux, elevation about 7,000 feet ; Simplon Kulm,
at the summit of the Simplon Pass; Kclépens, near Cossonaye, on the
railway-line between Lausanne and Berne; Blonay, above Montreux,
elevation about 2,000 feet; Les Pleiades, above Vevey, elevation
about 4,500 feet; Martigny, in the Rhone Valley.
1333. Acanthopsyche atra, L. Berisal: July 25th, 1926. Three males
taken flying over the road. On the wing they looked more like
small beetles than moths.
1341. Scioptera plumistrella, Hb. Simplon Kulm, 6,500 feet: August
2nd, 1926.
1849. Epichnopteryx pulla, Esp. Simplon Kulm, 6,500 feet: August
2nd, 1926.
1858. Psychidea bombycella, Schiff. Grimmialp: June 24th and 80th,
1925.
1358. Fumea casta, Pall. Montreux. Cases containing pupae were
abundant on stone walls at the end of May, 1926. Males
emerged from June 3rd and females from about June 15th.
1613. Peronea cristana, Fb. Villeneuve: June 2nd, 1926.
1622. P. variegana, Schiff. Montreux: September 15th and 17th,
1925.
1688. Capua gnomana, Cl. Berisal: July 28th, 1926.
1653. Tortriv dumicolana, Z. Montreux: June 18th, July 6th and
9th, 1926. Common around ivy in the evening.
1663. Pandemis cinnamomeana, Tr. Montreux: September 20th,
Marcu 157TH, 1927
84 THK ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD.
1925, one in the Hotel. Muller-Rutz gives June-July as
the time of appearance.
1674. Vortrix viridana, L. One very worn specimen in the Gorge du
Chaudron, Montreux, on July 10th, 1926.
1677. T. paleana, Hb. Grimmialp: June 27th and 80th, 1925.
1683. Cnephasia osseana, Scop. Arolla: August 10th and 17th, 19265.
1684. ©. argentana, Cl. Grimmialp: June 23rd to July 12th, 1926,
common. Arolla: August 8rd to 13th, 1925, common.
Berisal: August 15th and 16th, September 4th, 1926.
1686 (pt.). C. chrysanthemana, Dup. Grimmialp; June 24th to July
8th, 1925, common.
1686 (pt.). C. virgawreana, Tr. Evoléne: July 29th, 1925.
1687. C. penziana, Hb. Arolla; August 8th, common on trees;
August 13th; August 28th (worn),
1688. ©. canescana, Gn. Montreux: July 8th and 9th, 1926.
Common on rouch stone walls but difficult to see. Accord-
ing to Muller-Rutz, this species has only been found hitherto
in the valleys of Valais.
1703. Phalonia decimana, Schiff. Grimmialp: June 30th, 1926.
Arolla, August 8th, 1925.
1712. P. roseana, Hw. Grimmialp: July Ist, 1925.
1715. P. pallidana, Z. Grimmialp: July 6th, 1925.
1719. P. dubitana, Hb. Berisal: August 3rd, 1926.
1720. P. posterana, Z. Simplon Dorf: July 27th, 1926. Berisal,
July 20th and 21st, 1926.
1738. Euxanthis angustana, Tr. Grimmialp: July 7th, 8th, and 14th,
1925. Considered by Muller-Rutz as a scarce and local
species.
1753. Argyroploce corticana, Hb. Berisal: August 23rd, 1926. This
seems an unusually high elevation (5000 ft.).
1756. A. sauciana, Hb. Simplon Road, 6000 feet: August 9th, 1926.
1777. A. bipunctana, Fb. Arolla: August 10th, 1925.
1782. A. wnbrosana, Frr. Grimmialp: June 80th to July 14th, 1925,
common.
1783. A. lacunana, Dup. Grimmialp: June 23rd to July 3rd, 1925,
common.
1784. A. rivulana, Scop. Grimmialp: June 2#rd, 1925,
1801. Ancylis lundana, Fb. Grimmialp: July 1st, 1925.
1817. Bactra lanceolana, Hb. Grimmialp: June 30th, 1925.
1827. Eucosma diniana, Gn. Arolla: August 12th, 14th and 17th,
1925.
9 EE. sordidana, Hb. Beaten from alder at Berisal in some
numbers at the end of August and beginning of September,
1926,
{. cruciana, L. Arolla: August 17th, 1925, flying in numbers
in the evening around Salia bushes ; August 22nd, 1925.
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1875. EF. brunnichiana, Frél. Grimmialp: June 80th, 1925.
1877. E. bimaculana, Don. (similana, Hb.). Berisal: August 27th,
1926 ; September 4th, 1926, beaten from alder.
1889. F. immundana, F.R. Grimmialp: June 25th, 1925.
1897. EF. tedella, Cl. Grimmialp: June 22nd to 80th, 1925, common.
1901. #. ophthalmicana, Hb. Montreux: September 18th, 1925, one,
at light. A rarity in Switzerland according to Muller-
Rutz.
1905.
1909.
1912.
1922.
1943.
1944.
1951.
1974.
1976.
1979.
2016.
2021.
2027.
2029.
2082.
2035.
2050.
2053.
2059.
2060.
2073.
SOME SWISS MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 35
Hemimene quaestionana, Z. Grimmialp: July 8th, 1925.
Arolla: August 10th, 1925. According to Muller-Rutz, this
species is only known hitherto from Hastern Switzerland.
H. ligulana, H.S. Arolla: August 11th, 1925. An Alpine
species.
H. plumbagana, Tr. Grimmialp: June 28rd, 1925.
Cydia pomonella, L. Larvae common in apples at Montreux in
September, 1925 and 1926.
Laspeyresia fissana, Fr6l. Chillon: June 27th, 1926.
L. discretana, Wk. Arolla: August 10th, 1925. Apparently
not common in Switzerland.
L. aurana, Fb. Grimmialp: July 7th and 16th, 1925, on
umbelliferous flowers in the daytime.
Glyphipteryx thrasonella, Scop. Grimmialp: July 2nd and 4th,
1925.
G. equitella, Scop. Abundant at Montreux throughout June,
1926, flying around stone walls on which its foodplant
(Sedum) was growing. This little species manipulates the
exterior part of its forewing with its hind-feet, to display the
metallic markings.
G. fischeriella, Z. Grimmialp: June 29th and July 7th, 1925.
Conopia muscaeformis, View. Berisal: July 21st, 1926. This
specimen seems to agree with an example in the British
Museum Collection named as muscaeformis by Le Cerf, and,
according to Muller-Rutz, this species occurs not uncom-
monly in Valais. Meyrick has noted this species as ‘“ pro-
bably astatiformis,’ but this latter is not recorded from
Switzerland, so far as I know.
Platyptilia gonodactyla, Schiff. Grimmialp: June 29th and
July Ist, 1925. Arolla: August 10th to 17th, 1925,
common in the evening around a small patch of a Tussilago,
Montreux: June 10th, 1926.
Platyptilia cosmodactyla, Hb. Berisal: August 21st, 1926, bred
from a larva found feeding on flower-heads of Geranium
sylraticum,
Stenoptilia coprodactyla, Z. Grimmuialp: June 28rd to July 8th,
1925, common. Arolla: August 8th to 17th, 1925, common,
Berisal: August 21st, 1926. Variable in size and coloration.
S. bipunctidactyla, Hw. Uetliberg (Zurich: July 21st, 1925.
Villeneuve: September 14th, 1925.
S. pterodactyla, L. Evoléne: July 29th, 1926. Berisal:
August 21st, 1926.
Oidaematophorus monodactylus, L. Arolla: August 28th, 1925.
Montreux: June 9th, 1926.
O. tephradactylus, Hb. Arolla: August 8th and 10th, 1925.
Alucita tetradactyla, L. Grimmialp: June 23rd to 30th, 1925,
common. Fayaux sur Vevey (about 3,000 feet): July
13th, 1926. Berisal: August 4th to 19th, 1926, common.
A. pentadactyla, L. Montreux: abundant in one or two places
where Convolvulus arvensis was growing: first seen on June
9th, and common until July 5th (and probably later).
Ethmia sexpunetella, Hb. Montreux : June 18th, 1926.
Apparently a rarity in Switzerland.
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2076. E. funerella, Fb. Les Avants: June 21st, 1926. Rare and
local in Switzerland, according to Muller-Rutz.
2082A. Depressaria assimilella, Tr. Villeneuve: October 8rd, 19265.
Rochers de Naye: October 7th, 1925: perhaps carried up
there in the train. Only recorded before from Basel, where
one female was taken in June.
2098. D. liturella, Hb. (hypericella, Tr.). Berisal: August 23rd,
September 4th and 7th, 1926.
2126. Borkhausenia psendospretella, Stt. Montreux: September 27th,
October 2nd and 11th, 1925.
2149. B. tinctella, Hb. Grimmialp: June 30th, 1925.
2154. B. stipella, L. Grimmialp: June 30th, 1925. Arolla; August
18th, 1925.
2170. Endrosis lacteella, Schiff. Montreux; October 16th, 1925,
September 12th, 1926.
2183. Sophronia semicostella, Hb. Berisal: August 11th, 1926.
2184. S. humerella, Schiff. Grimmialp: June 28rd, 1925.
2194. Dichomeris limosellus, Schlag. Villeneuve: June 2nd, 1926.
2912. Telphusa sequax, Hw. Grimmialp: July 2nd, 1926.
2217. T. prowvimella, Hb. Berisal: August 15th, 1926. Usually a
plains species, common from April to the beginning of July.
2226. Gelechia pinguinella, Tr. Montreux: July 8th, 1926.
2254. G. perpetuella, H.S. Arolla: August 17th, 28th and 29th,
1925. Berisal: July 21st, 1926. An alpine species.
2256. G. lonyicornis, Curtis (virgella, Wenner). Simplon Kulm, 6,500
feet: August 2nd, 1926.
2314. Stomopteryx vorticella, Seop. Grimmialp: July 6th, 1925.
2335. Aristotelia superbella, Z. Berisal: July 28rd, 1926. Only a
single specimen, from Chur, has been recorded before from
Switzerland.
2357. Tebenna (Mompha) miscella, Schiff. Grimmialp: June 30th,
1925.
2367. Cosmopterya schmidiella, Frey. Eclépens: June 22nd, 1926. A
rarity in Switzerland, according to Muller-Rutz.
2399. Coleophora ornatipennella, Hb. Montreux: May 81st and June
Ist, 1926. In hay-fields.
2403. C. niveicostella, Z. Grimmialp: June 22nd, 1925.
2472. Coriscium cuculipennellum, Hb. Montreux: September 26th,
1925, at rest on a tree-trunk in the Gorge du Chauderon.
2540. Lithocolletis populifoliella, Tr. Zurich : July 23rd, 1925, on &
poplar-trunk, ;
2549. Bucculatria frangulella, Goeze. Chillon: June 9th and 16th,
1926. Abundant.
2553. B. nigricomella, Z. Grimmialp: July Ist, 1925.
2558. Phyllocnistis suffusella, Z. Montreux: June 10th, 1926.
2588. HMlachista subnigrella, Dgl. Grimmialp: July 6th and 7th, 1925.
2644. Mpermenia scurella, H.S. Grimmialp: June 28rd and 24th,
1925. Berisal: July 21st and August 8rd, 1926.
2658. Seythris amphonycella, H.G, Berisal: July 21st, August 14th
and 15th, 1926. This is an alpine species and Berisal is
apparently rather a low elevation at which to find it.
2659. S. senescens, Stt. Grimmialp: June 24th, 19265.
2669. S. scopolella, Hb. Montreux: July 10th, 1926.
VARIATIONS AND RELATIONSHIP OF COENONYMPHA ARCANIA, ETO. 37
2684. Hyponomenta padella, LL. Zurich: July 23rd and 24th, 1926, at
light.
2688. H. cognatellus, Hb. Montreux: abundant from June 5th, 1926.
2701. Zelleria savifragae, Stt. Berisal: August 5th, 1926.
2708. Argyresthia ephippella, Fb. Chillon: September 7th, 1925.
Blonay sur Montreux (2,000 ft.) : September 15th, 1925.
2710. A. semitestacella, Curtis. Chillon: 7th September 1925.
2718. A. sorbiella, Tr. Evoléne: July 29th, 1925.
2725. A.dilectella, Z. Arolla: August 1st and 13th, 1925. Apparently
not a common species and not recorded previously from such
an elevation. The foodplant, juniper, is common at Arolla.
2737. Cerostoma sequella, Cl. Grimmialp: July 13th, 1925. Said to
be scarce in Switzerland.
2754. Plutella maculipennis, Curtis. Montreux: July 8th, 1926.
2775. Tinea arcella, Fb. Berisal: August 5th, 1926.
2788. T. pellionella, L. Grimmialp: July 7th, 1925.
2802. Incurvaria flavimitrella, Hb. Chillon: May 30th, 1926.
2811. I. rupella, Schiff. Grimmialp: July 8th, 1925. Les Pleiades:
June 24th, 1926.
2818. Nemophora pilulella, Hb. Les Pleiades: June 24th, 1926.
2821. Nemotois metallicus, Poda. Martigny: June 11th, 1926.
2830. Adela croesella, Scop. Chillon: June 2nd, 1926.
2831. Nemotvis degeerella, L. Evoléne: July 29th, 1925. HKclepens:
June 22nd, 1926.
2836. Adela rufimitrella, Sc. Les Avants: June 12th and 21st, 1926.
Locally common around flowers of (I believe) Cardamine
pratensis.
2893. Nepticula basalella, H.S. (tityrella, Stt.). Montreux: September
13th, 1925. A single specimen, in the Hotel.
2928. Micropteryx aureatella, Seop. Grimmialp: June 29th, and July
9nd, 1925. Chillon : May 80th, and June Ist, 1926.
Villeneuve : June 2nd, 1926.
2929. M. ammanella, Hb. Chilion: June Ist, 16th, and 27th, 1926.
2931. M. aruncella, Scop. Grimmialp: June 27th, 1925.
2936. Hepialus sylvinus, L. Berisal: August 25th, 1926, one female.
2939. H. hectus, L. Grimmialp :. July 13th, 1925, three males,
disturbed from low vegetation in the evening.
On the variations and relationship of Coenonympha arcania, L., and
C. gardetta, De Prun.=philea, Hub.=satyrion, Esp.
By ROGER VERITY, M.D.
I must begin by pointing out the most unfortunate mistake made
by the text-books of this century in bringing into general use the
name of satyrion, Ksp., of about 1805 instead of that of philea given
to it by Hubner in 1799 (or possibly 1798, as usually believed).
Ochsenheimer in 1807 used satyrion because philea had been given by
Linnaeus to a South American Pierid, but the authors of last century
rightly disregarded this reason, as not valid, and quoted satyrion as a
synonym of philea. One cannot understand why Riihlin 1895, followed
by Staudinger in the third edition of his Catalog of 1901, suddenly
took up satyrion and gave philea, Hb., as its synonym. The only
38 THK KNLOMOLOGIST’S RECORD.
reason I can think of is that the description only appeared in 1805,
but, as I have remarked in other cases, either one must admit that
Hiibner’s figures are sufficient to validate his names or all of these
must be abolished, with disastrous results in nomenclature. To make
matters worse, Staudinger made use of the same name of philea, but
in this case according to Freyer’s figures, for a different form of the
insect, a less extreme grade of variation in the same direction. Rebel
in his Lepidopterenfauna der Balkanlindes (Ann. naturhist. Hofmus.,
1904, p. 174) remarks that the name is Hubner’s and must be used
according to his figure, and subsequently, in his 1910 edition of Berge’s
Schmetterlingsbuch, p. 54, he gives the new name of epiphilea to Freyer’s
form. What he does not note, however, is that satyrion is a synonym
of philea, Hb. A return to this name now, after the other use made
of it during a quarter of a century in a large number of text-books,
through blind faith in Staudinger, would have led to considerable
confusion and inconvenience. Fortunately another correction, which,
if I am not mistaken, it is necessary to make to establish the nomen-
clature in a perfectly correct way, serves also the purpose of obviating
this new source of difficulties. It is that De Prunner in his Lepidoptera
Pedemontana, p. 74, has, in 1798, named gardetta an insect, which
Ghiliani seems unquestionably right in referring to philea, Hb. De
Prunner says it is not rare in the Varaita Valley in June and from his
description it is quite recognisable. The date of issue of Hubner’s
figure is not certain, as mentioned above, but even were it 1798, a
description has, ceteris paribus, precedence over a figure according to the
accepted Rules of Nomenclature, and yardetta should stand instead of
philea and satyrion.
To avoid further confusion it must also be noted that Godart’s
figures, quoted by Staudinger under philea, Freyer, represent, on the
contrary, a very extreme form of philea, Hubner, and that Lang’s
figure of darwiniana, wrongly accepted as such by Staudinger himself
in 1901, is totally different from MHerrich Schiiffer’s because it is
unmistakably drawn from an epiphilea specimen; the same may be
said of Seitz’s figure of darwiniana.
My reasons for dividing the insects we are dealing with into two
groups and considering them two ‘‘exerges’’ of a single species will
be seen by the following descriptions of the observations I have been
able to make on the field. Their variations have puzzled Entomolo-
gists for over a century: at all times some have split them into two
and even three species, others have united them into one. It seems to
me that, as in several other similar cases, the cause of this diversity of
opinions lies in the fact there exists a third sort of relationship, which
is neither specific nor racial, if by the term of “ race’’ one designates
a group of individuals having developed in the same surroundings and
exhibiting certain local features simply due to their influence. No
effort has hitherto been made in classifying Lepidoptera to distinguish
from these variations, of much more frequent occurrence, those which
are due to stable hereditary causes. I have been criticised for having
introduced the new term of ‘ exerges,’’ with, it has been said, a defini-
tion agreeing exactly with that of “subspecies.” It may be so in the
minds of some naturalists, but many others have used it indiserimin-
ately for races, as defined above, and for other kinds of variations, so
that it conveys nothing definite. That is why I have thought it
VARIATIONS AND RELATIONSHIP OF COKNONYMPHA ARCANTA, ETC. 39
necessary to draw the attention of Lepidopterists to the third sort of
relationship, of which arcania and yardetta are an excellent example,
by a new term with this definite meaning.
Races of nymotypical exerge arcania, L.
This exerge consists of a very compact group of races, as compared
with those of exerge wardetta. They strike one at once as being true
races, due simply to the effects of surroundings on individual develop-
ment, whereas the variations of gardetta are complicated by a pheno-
menon, which is presumably due to stable hereditary differences.
The specimens I have from Central Kurope, including Geneva and
Vienna, all seem to belong to exactly the same race, which differs very
little also from my series from Norrwicken in Central Sweden. This is
evidently the nymotypical form, as the species was first described in
Fauna Svecica. It is slightly smaller and duller in colour than most
Central Europe examples. Ifa name is used for the latter it must be
Scopoli’s amyntas of 1763 from Carniolia or Fourcroy’s cephalus, given
in 1785 to the Parisian insect, and thus Fruthstorfer’s saleviana
(Entom., Zeitschr., 1910, p. 3), given to the race of Geneva, Arcine,
etc., must fall as an absolute synonym. My race tenuelimbo of
Peninsular Italy and Catalonia is rather larger and brighter; the
white band-like space of underside is on an average broader and the
ocelli a little larger; the name, however, was not a happy one, because
the black marginal band of upperside is, on the whole, about the same
as in Central Europe ; its II. gen. gracilis, Vrty., is remarkably small
and frail. Oberthtr has named (Et. Lép. Comp., IV., p. 25) huebneri
the form of Hubner’s figure 240, with a large fulvous patch in the
middle of hindwing above ; it is an individual form, usually very rare,
but frequent in certain localities, such as Samoussy (Aisne) and
Andorre (teste René Oberthur in litt. to me). Querci has found that at
Orihuela (Albarracin Sierra) a similar form, but with the underside of
hindwings broadly fulvous, is prevalent: race clorinda, Sagarra (Bull.
Inst. Catalana Hist. Nat., 1924, p. 199). In the Maritime Alps two
giant forms are met with, both with a very broad white band on under-
side, but one (balestrei, Frhst., l.c.) has small ocelli and the other
(macromma, Trti. and Vrty.), has very large ones; they seem to exist
together in some localities and to be racial in others. The Calabrian
race opposita, Vrty., aS in the case of other species, is a near ally of
those of this region. We then come to the race with the white band
considerably reduced: race insubrica, Frey,, bas been noted and des-
cribed for many years on account of its large size and gaudy colour-
ing, from the Tessin, 8. Tyrol and Upper Austria. There exists, how-
ever, a race which cannot bear that name, because it lacks the
characteristic giant size, although it has the same intensity of colour,
the narrower white band, and the same prominent ocelli and pattern.
To this belongs the race of Oulx, m. 1100, in the Susa Valley, and I
have collected it also at Turin and in the Carnic Alps, at 8. Stefanos
di Cadore, m. 900, and at Cima Sappada, m. 1400. The name of seyta,
given by De Prunner to an insect of Turin, has been attributed to
arcania, but it seems to me his quaint description affords no positive
clue, and anyhow, his statement that it flies in the autumn would
restrict it to the II. gen. I take my Carnic specimens of “typical ”’
and I name this race parvinsubrica. Othess from the Cargo, above
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40 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD,
Trieste, m. 800, resemble it in size and general appearance, but the
basal half of underside of hindwing, instead of being grey with a bluish
gloss, is tawny and in some of them the band is of a rich yellow tone,
instead of white: race tergestina, mihi. A further grade along the
same line as parvinsubrica is afforded by my Gédre series of specimens
from the Hautes Pyrénees; some of them are of a very dark tone on
underside and also the upperside is then usually very saturated, so that
they are of a warm reddish chestnut colour, instead of fulvous, on this
surface: race maesta, mihi.
(To be continued.)
The Basses-Alps in May-June, 1926.
By Lieut. E. B. ASHBY, F.Z.S., F.E.S.
I left London early on May 16th, and arrived at Peyruis station in
the afternoon of the following day. I stayed at the Hotel Barras, Les
Mées, a village at a short distance from Peyruis until May 24th, in
order that I might work the ground between Peyruis and St. Auban,
along the right bank of the river Durance, which I found so profitable
last year. When | arrived this year the Mistral, which had played
such havoc with the vine and potato crop in South Provence, was still
blowing, and somewhat hindered my collecting. During this week I
found the following butterflies on the ground mentioned above.
Zerynthia rumina race medesicaste, fairly common above the station
at St. Auban in first rate order, and odd specimens at different spots
along the line. Anthocharis tayis race bellezina just emerging and
fairly common. Melitaea didyma, M. phoebe, M. cinwia, FEuchloé
euphenoides, common and in fine condition. A few Pontia daplidice
gen. I. bellidice, fresh. Anthocharis crameri (belia) was already going
over. Glaucopsyche cyllarus, Powellia sertorius (sao), and Pararge
maera. The “ burnet”’ moths taken were Zygaena lavandulae a few,
Z. rhadamanihus just emerging and plentiful, 7. achilleae became
plentiful later on, 7. trifolit an interesting form, and Z. lonicerae. I
bred imagines of the last after my return home. From Digne larvae
I reared a number of 5-spotted forms of what are apparently Z.
filipendulae.
There are several small section boxes along the line between St.
Auban and Peyruis stations. These are riddled with entrances to
bees’ nests and by careful attention I got a fine number of bees and
other Hymenoptera, amongst them being bees of the genera Antho-
phora and ‘halicodoma, with their attendant bee parasites. The
Hymenopteron Chrysis iynita was especially noticeable on these section
boxes.
Near the railway cutting between St. Auban and Peyruis stations,
on the St. Auban side, there is a piece of overhanging cliff near the
railway, which is also riddled with bees’ nests and here I spent a
considerable time with excellent results. The parasitic bees Coeltowys
vectis and more commonly C. quadridentata were easily obtained.
Except along the bank above the river Durance between St. Auban
and Peyruis stations, I did not obtain any good results, and although
I walked for some distance to the south of Les Mées village, and also
to the hills west of the bridge over the river, I found both these
localities comparatively unproductive at this time of the year.
THE BASSES-ALPS IN MAY-JUNE, 41
May 24th.—After a week of perhaps the most trying collecting
weather I have ever experienced, I left Les Mées for Digne. I spent
the afternoon en route on the hills above the station at St. Auban,
which yielded some fresh specimens of the moth Coscinia striata, a
couple of Anthocharis tayis, and near St. Auban Station a couple of Z.
rumina race medesicaste.
May 25th.—This afternoon and for several succeeding afternoons
I collected with profit on the road leading just behind the station at
Digne up to Les Courbons. At this time of the year, I found that
insects in general continued later on the wing as this road gets the full
afternoon glare of the sun. I found /. enphenotdes still plentiful and
fresh: several specimens of Zyyaena lavandulae; the bee Violacea
cyanascens ; the spring brood of Polyommatus (Agriades) aragonensis, of
which males were abundant, but were going over at this date. Zyyaena
achilleae were abundant and fresh.
The morning of May 26th I spent on Mt. St. Vincent, where
around the ruins of the monastery fresh Papilio podalirius were flying,
a few H’rebia evias, and also a few A. crameri (belia) were taken, but it
was too late to get this last species fresh. A. tayis race bellezina was
also at this date at Digne scarce and showing signs of wear on the
several hills where it flies.
May 29th.—I climbed Mt. Cousson to-day ascending by its slopes
that are reached by way of the grand gorge beyond the Baths. About
24 miles up I found Mrebia evias flying in considerable numbers, but
not in any colony like FH. epistygne. The best way of getting evias was
to take them as they settled at the water, which crosses the path twice
at some distance up. Here one could catch them easily and select the
freshest specimens. The majority were in good condition. Besides
these I found Brenthis euphrosyne, Heodes dorilis, and Hamearis lucina
in good condition all nearly about the same height as I took the H.
evias.
May 30th.—I am indebted to General Cooke for information about
Melitaea deione, which is fresh and common at this date at the right
places near Digne. It seems to be confined to the hottest gullies,
where it flies up and down, rarely settling, though it seems interested
in the very small plants, which struggle to keep an existence in these
arid spots. The form here appears to lack the black > shaped mark
near the inner margin on the upperside of the fore-wings often
characteristic of the Swiss races and in this way resembling the form
found at Vernet and elsewhere in the Pyrenees. I was glad to get
a small series of nice fresh specimens, but I was only just in time.
May 31st.—A walk along the river bed of the Miroux brook which
runs parallel with the Dourbes Road produced Plebeius argus (aegon),
Polyommatus thersttes, G. cyllarus, Cupido sebrus, Scolitantides baton,
and Hveres argiades race coretas, among other insects. In the after-
noon I collected on some waste ground behind the Maison Yvan on
the Dourbes Road, which produced M. aurinia var. provincialis and
quite fresh specimens of M.athalia. Just below La Collette, I captured
a perfect female of Lycaena iolas, at rest on a twig of Rosa canina, the
only specimen I saw.
June 1st.—A walk along the path above the right bank of the River
Bléone, from the main bridge at Digne as far as the farm St. Bénoit
yielded a general bag, especially the large black beetle Molytes ylabratus,
42 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD.
which were fairly abundant, a fine female specimen of the clearwing
Synanthedon (Sesia) sphegiformis ; and some fresh specimens of Brenthis
euphrosyne.
During the greater part of my stay at Digne this year the weather
was dull, and though [ managed to bring back a thousand insects of
seven orders including 100 moth larvae broom-feeders, I had to box
nearly half of the imagines I took, which necessitated a great amount
of searching. Aporia crataegi and Pararye maera were two of the most
abundant butterflies everywhere at Digne, and were both in the finest
condition.
June 4th.—I climbed the Mt. Beaumont, the approach to which I
described in my notes Mut. Rec., XX VIIL., p. 39. ‘Towards the summit
P. machaon was quite common, with a sprinkling of A. tagis, but these
were quite going over at this date. With the exception of a fine speci-
men of the wasp Humenes coarctata, taken on the descent, I got nothing
of much interest but a fresh specimen of the moth Hemaris tityus
(bombyli/ormis), whose right pair of wings are both deformed in size;
which fact however, did not in the least hinder its activity on the
wing.
June 5th.—I climbed the Mt. Cousson again to-day going nearly
to the summit. Unfortunately the early bright morning did not last,
and the greater part of the day was very dull. A day for collecting
larvae, and I found the beetles Arima brevipennis, Illig., and Cebrio
lepturoides, F., abundant in both sexes, over a wide area.
(To be completed.)
On Nomenclature.
By ALFRED SICH, F.E.S.
Entomology makes rapid progress and for the last six years I have
been little in touch with modern thought. However I may perhaps be
allowed to give expression to some of my ideas on the subject of
nomenclature. In the first place to clear the ground, it is necessary to
go back geologically speaking, a few years. If it were possible to view
the lepidoptera existing on this earth two or three million years ago I
doubt very much whether we could recognise one single specimen as
identical with any now living species. ver since the lepidoptera first
appeared, possibly in the Permian, or perhaps not till Jurassic times,
they have been developing new species, new genera, new families. Some
of these for various reasons became extinct no doubt, but the rest have
carried on further development till the present day. Here eomes an
important point, which occasionally seems to be lost sight of. ‘The
lepidoptera of to-day are not at rest but still continuing their evolution.
The species are either slowly dying out or gradually assuming features,
which ultimately change them into new species. It follows then that
among present day lepidoptera there must be some individuals which
are just breaking away from a species, some which have already
progressed half way towards a new species, and again others that have
almost completed the whole span. As this process of development has
so many and such indefinite stages it seems quite unnecessary to invent
names for every rung of the ladder. In my own mind | am content
with four: species, aberratio, forma, subspectes.
NOTES ON COLLECTING. 43
I will take the term, species, as it is generally understood. Then
any specimen which differs slightly or considerably from the type of
the species may be termed an aberration. This may be rare or
abundant and may be considered as the first breaking away from the
old species towards the new. When an aberration has become so
abundant as to equal or out-number the type but still flies with and
breeds with the type, I call it a form. It may then be regarded as less
or more than half way towards a new species. When a form has so
completely taken the place of the type of a species that the type no
longer exists with it in a given locality, | call it a subspecies. It may
then be considered as furthest away from the old and nearest to a new
species. Thus I state my present views in a simple and very bare
manner. In nature the whole question is wonderfully and fearfully
complicated. I will not dilate on the subject here but will add that
some species seem able to retain their ancestral garment and yet adapt
themselves to changed environment, thus we have Micropterya and
other ancient species still with us. Some aberrations again do not seem
to be attempts at new species but may be last remnants of the old
species still appearing in the new species, as for instance, the ab. helice
of Colias croceus. I like the term, race, but as now used it indicates
what is really a subspecies. Form as above suggested means local
form. Seasonal form, dimorphic and polymorphic forms are in a
separate category. To my mind it requires a large amount of study in
the field and possibly some experiments before we can attempt to decide
the status of a lepidopteron, but there are no doubt many instances
when we can come to a reasonable conclusion. It wouid be ridiculous
to my mind for a collector to visit a locality, previously unknown to
him, and then describe races and subspecies based simply on one
season’s experience. In the earlier days of entomology many varieties
received names because the specimens so named were then considered
to be good species. In later years, there arose a craze for giving names
to specimens which were well known to be merely slight variations of
a known species. Vanity was no doubt a great incentive to this useless
action as the author of the name could add the magic mihi. It 1s useful
to make an intensive study of a particular species and work out and
classify all its known aberrations which in a variable species run like
chains in more than one direction. ‘T’o give names to every link in
every chain, for example to every phase between a conspicuously spotted
and a faintly spotted form, is unnecessary, inconvenient and sure to
lead to confusion. In Staudinger and Rebel’s Catalog, we find most of
the varieties that are listed are given a short diagnosis to assist the
reader's memory. Sometimes we also find the words via nominanda.
To the majority of the varietal names loosely coined during the last few
years these two words surely apply.
TenOTks “ON? COLLECTING, etc.
Norrs on CoLEopTEeRA TAKEN IN 1926.—The following are the more
interesting Coleoptera taken in the season just past. Unless otherwise
stated all the localities mentioned are in Hampshire.
Halyzia 16-guttata, L.—was beaten in numbers from a variety of
trees from April onwards, at Hastleigh and in the New Forest.
Homaloplia ruricola, F.—several on the wing on Farley Mount in
ad
44 THE WNTOMOLOGIST’S REOORD.
July. Serica brunnea, L.—Not uncommon at sugar, Baddesley, in July. —
Lacon murinus. L.—beaten from poplars on Farley Mount at the end of
June. Mater sanguinolentus, Schr.—one taken from a pine stump on
Beaulieu Heath in May. F. elonyatulus, F.—seven specimens beaten
from bushes on I'arley Mount at the end of June. EF. balteatus, L.—taken
under bark on pine stumps in April and May at Chandler’s Ford ; one
specimen taken on the wing at Beaulieu Road in May. Corymbites
quercus, Gyll.—a single specimen was beaten from oak in the Great
Covert, Baddesley, May 15th. Campylus linearis, L.—was in great
abundance on shrubs at Baddesley at the end of May and in June.
Malachins aenens, Li.—swarwed on flowers in June, in the meadows
by the R. Itchen, at Kastleigh. Haplocnemus impressus, Marsh—a single
specimen was taken in my garden at Hastleigh, May 8th. /’silothria
nobilis, l.—oecurred in numbers on flowers in the quarries at Portland
in August. Drilus jlavescens, Ross.—males were common on grass stems
by roadsides at Hastleigh, in May and June; and were swept in numbers
from grasson St. Catherine’s Hill, Winchester, inJuly. Prionuscoriartus,
L.—My friend Mr. |}. M. Hobby gave me a fine specimen of this
Longhorn taken by himself at Wordsley, Stafis, in August. Aromia
moschata, L.—a specimen taken resting on a post at Shawford, July.
Criocephalus polonicus, Mots.—This species was bred from pine stumps,
emerging at tbe end of July, Chandler’s Ford. Several came to light
late at night in the same month at Kastleich, whilst a large female was
picked off a tarred fence at Portland in August. Callidium alni, L.—
was obtained by beating hazels in the Great Covert, Baddesley, on May
31st, and one was taken flying in the sunshine in a street in Kastleigh
in June. Molorchus minor, L.—A fine male of this species was beaten
from dead larch twigs, at Baddesley, May 31st; in June, my friend
Mr. W. Fassnidge secured several females by beating shrubs at Farley
Mount. § Toaxvtus meridianus, L.—was common in all the woods around
Kastleigh, some of the females being practically black. Mr. A. H.
Sperring sent me specimens taken in Hyden wood, near Portsmouth,
June 16th. Pachyta cerambyciformis, Schr.—a single specimen was
taken at Farley Mount in June by Mr, W. Fassnidge. Leptura fulva,
De G.—This very local species occurs near Eastleigh, and is to be taken
at flowers—thistles, yarrow and various Umbellifers are favourites—
when the sun is shining. It was in good numbers in July, 1926, and
was found to be breeding in posts by the railway. Leptura livida, F.—
occurred in numbers in July at Umbellifers, Lee-on-the-Solent (Mr. B.
M. Hobby). Strangalia melanura, L.—This species was swarming at
bramble blossom on Farley Mount in June; on the 27th, when the sun
was out, it would bave been possible to take several hundreds of both
sexes. It also occurred at Kastleigh in the same month, but very
sparingly. Grammoptera tabacicolor, De G.—fairly common at
Kastleigh in June. G. analis, Pz.—One specimen of this somewhat
rare species was beaten from oak in the Great Covert, Baddesley, May
31st. Others may have been overlooked among the crowd of the
common G, ruficornis, ., which continually fell into the beating tray.
Pogonochaerus dentatus, Foure.—was beaten from oak, Baddesley, May
31st (Mr. W. Fassnidge). Mesosa nubila, Ol.—The first specimen of
this species was beaten from a dead aspen, in the Great Covert,
Baddesley, on May 8th (Mr. W. Fassnidge). On the 16th I beat
another from « dead oak bough, but further beating on this and
1
NOTES ON COLLECTING. 45
subsequent days failed to discover others. On Oct. 23rd, in the same
woods, Mr. Fassnidge and myself spent some time splitting up fallen
oak boughs, and discovered several specimens resting in cells, apparently
awaiting the spring before they emerged. Odd specimens were taken
later on various dates in the same way, but in January (1927) Mr.
Fassnidge discovered some felled oaks in Hut Wood, near Southampton,
and by breaking up the partially rotten boughs seeured a good series.
A visit to the same trees on Jan. 9th, by Mr F'assnidge, Mr. P. Harwood
and myself resulted in a bag of over a score of the beetles, and there
can be no doubt that the species is a common one in this district,
although considerable labour has to be expended in obtaining a series.
Letopus nebulosus, L.—swarmed everywhere on oaks in June and July
around Hastleigh; on one occasion 5 fell into the tray at once.
Saperda populnea, L.—was bred from galls taken in January at
Baddesley, Southampton and Winchester. The species responds to
forcing, and numbers emerged indoors in March. A dipterous parasite,
not unlike a housefly in appearance, is commonly found to have
destroyed the beetle larva, and in the wild much havoe is wrought
amongst the larvae by tits. Jetrops praeusta, L.—a few beaten from
sallows in June, Baddesley. Stenostola ferrea, Schr.—two specimens
were beaten in the Great Covert, Baddesley, in May. Donacia vulgaris,
Zsch.—in good numbers at a clay-pit near Brambridge, end of May
andinJune. Cryptocephalus aureolus, Suf.—swarmed on St. Catherines’
Hill, Winchester, in July. Some nice red forms occurred (in 1923, in
the same locality, a specimen with almost black elytra was taken).
Chrysomela didymata, Serib., and C. hyperici, Forst.—locally common
around Eastleigh, June. Cassida nobilis, L.—was taken from dock on
Netley beach, May 26th. A single specimen of Conopalpus testaceus,
Ol., was beaten from oak, July 8rd, at Baddesley. Rhynchites
interpunctatus, Steph.—one taken in bishopstoke Woods, near Kastleigh,
April 6th, and a second at Baddesley on May 8th. Orthochaetes insiynis,
Aub.—a single specimenon Chesil Beach, Portland, in August. T'ychius
pygmaeus, Bris.—a few were obtained from Origanum vulgare, L., at
Portland in August, but the species seemed very scarce.—F RrepxK. J.
Kizureron, F.E.8., 177, Leigh Road, Hastleigh.
Cottectineg Rererences.—Sprain.— hint. Rec., XIV., p. 10; XIV.,
p. 70, etc.; XVI., p. 85, etc.; XVIII, p. 57, ete; XIX.161; H.M.M.
MX VIL, p. 288. ; XXXII, p.11.;, XXXIK., p. 54; XXXIX., p, 179,
Chews ky, 73, XG; p,. 22 3 XLV... pe 52; ate.
Anpatusia.. LHnt. Rec:, XXV. p. 220: Hnt. XXXV.,. p. 228.
Apparracwn. Ent. Rec, XXVIL., p.178.; Ane. XL, p. 4.3; XLV.,
p. 110.; XLVL., p. 283, ete.
Auerciras. HHnt., XLI., p. 2138.
Broncuates. Hint. Rec., XXV., p. 70.
Barcetona. Ent. XXXVIIL., p. 200, etc. ; XL, p. 301.
Curnca. Ent. Record, XXYV., p. 35.
Canrasrians. Hnt. Rec., XXVII., p. 124.
aa Granga. Hint, Rec., XXJ. 34, eter; XXV. 33, 278; XXXIV.
66.
Giprattar. Ent. Rec., XXIII. 261; XXIV. 172; Ent. XVI. 240,
O79 = Xa 214858. 4M XXLY,,b75; ete: X LEX 117, ete.
Granapa. int. Rec., XXV. 223; Hnt. XXII. 160, etc.
46 THE WNLTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD.
Mauaca. Frnt. Rec., XXIII. 262, ete.; XXV. 228.
Pagares. Ent. Rec., XXVIT. 121.
Puente pe tos Fisrros. nt. Rec., XX VII. 189.
Ronpa. Ent. Rec., XXV. 228; Hnt. XLI. 218.
Tracacete. nt. Rec., XXV. 69.
GuretHery. Ent. Record, XXV. 83; Ent, LVI. 157.
Biarritz. Hnt. Record, XX. 179; XXII. 110.
Portucan. nt. Record, XXI. 127; H.M.M., XVII. 181, etc.
Vico. Ent. XXXI. 77.
GXYURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES.
At the invitation of the American Association of Economic
Entomologists and the Entomological Society of America the Fourth
International Congress of Entomology will take place at Ithaca, New
York, presumably during the third week of August, 1928. A preliminary
programme will be issued in the near future.—K.J.
The annual “ Verrall’’ Supper, which is now more directly under
the famous Entomological Club was held on Tuesday, January 18th,
and the weather being favourable there was a very large gathering,
some 140 guests being present. In the list of those present lying be-
fore us, which want of space does not allow us to print, we note a
considerable number of new names. We hope that support will be
given by all those who can to this admirable institution, where old
friends meet once again and new friendships arise.
A circular with a preliminary programme has reached us of the 10th
International Congress of Zoology which is announced to take place
at Budapest, Hungary, from September 4th to 9th of the present year,
under the Presidency of Dr. G. Horvath, Director of the Hungarian
National Museum. The Congress had been arranged to take place in
1916, but this being impossible it had to be postponed to the present
year. A cordial invitation is given to all those interested in Zoological
Science to attend this Congress.
Two years ago we announced the publication of the first number
of an annual report of the Hampshire Entomological Society. We
have just received No. 2 of the Transactions of this Society, giving a
short summary of their monthly doings during the past two years, and
several of the papers read. Mr. B. A. C. Stowell discusses ‘‘ What are
Species and How do they arise”; The Rey. J. E. Tarbat, deals with
“ The Study of Variation ”’ ; Mr. Fassnidge gives an accede of his
discovery of Synanthedon flaviventris in Britain, as well as ‘* Notes on
the year 1925.” There is also a short summary of a paper on ‘ Two
closely allied species until recently confused in Polyommatus coridon,”
by ourself. Congratulations are due to all those connected with the
Society for the enthusiasm they put into their leisure-hour study, and
their unity of purpose in the mutual support of the Society, the meet-
ings of which it must be an effort to attend from distant corners of the
county.
The last issued part of the Deut. Ent. Zeit., the Transactions of
the German Entomological Society, Berlin, contains papers on
Cerapterus (Coleoptera Paussidae), Riodinidae=Erycinidae (Lep.), the
REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 47
Ichneumonidae of the Dobrudscha, Olibrus larvae (Col.), Aphididae of
the Philippines, Anthophora retusa and A. aestivalis (Hym.), New
Neuropterous insects, the Sexual-armature in Lepidoptera, the
Orthopterous Fauna of Siberia, etce., with one plate and numerous
figures.
The Zeit. fur wiss. Insekteubiol. for December contains a continua-
tion of Stauder’s valuable “ Schmetter. fauna der Ilyro-adriatischen
Festland,” a contribution to our knowledge of Tenthredinid mines,
with articles on Lathrobinm and Rhynchites (Col.). The supplement
has articles on the Bombyliidae (Dip.), the Simuliidae (Dip.), and the
palaearctic Nemeobiinae (Rhop.).
FREVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS.
Tue British Ants, Tuer Lire-arstory anp Crassirication.—By
H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe, F.Z.S., etc. (Late Vice-President of the
Entomological Society of London)—George Routledge and Sons,
Limited, 2nd Edition, 1927.—The first edition of this work was
reviewed eleven years ago in this magazine, and the remarks concluded
with the words, ‘“‘ As a whole the work brings our knowledge of the
British Ants up to a point, which leavés nothing to be added, and we
can only wish for it that publicity, which Mr. Donisthorpe’s treatment
of his subject deserves.” It has had the treatment it deserved and
within ten years of its first publication an unexpected demand for its
reissue has arisen. That was impossible without revision. In the ten
years our knowledge had increased apace; two new species were added
to the fauna and two new forms of old known species must be
incorporated. New facts as to distribution in Britain it was essential to
include. Wheeler in his ‘ Social Life among the insects”’ and Forel
in his ‘“‘ Le Monde Social des Fourmis’”’ raised new points of view on
the Life-history of Ants. Emery, Wasmann, Schmitz, Bondroit and
others had added to our general knowledge of these Hymenoptera, so
that a thorough revision was necessary if the book was to be brought
up to the new high level of knowledge and usefulness. The author,
one of the ablest field naturalists in the country, has kept in the fore-
most rank, testing, criticising, experimenting on all the newly suggested
lines as they appeared from these various authors during the whole of
the ten years which has elapsed, and was well fitted for the task of
revision. We are told that the synonymy and bibliography have been
brought up to date and all new records, both British and foreign, have
been added. ‘I'he Bibliography, without which no book of this class
is worth obtaining, alone fills over 20 pages, and includes a list of Mr.
Donisthorpe’s own contributions to myrmecological science.
One of the most interesting sections deals with the phenomena
under polymorphism, and its causes with the curious results attained.
This phase of growth is made the more intelligible relatively, by a
capital diagram. The author concludes his remarks on the habits of
the ants with the summary that their “actions are guided by education,
experience and memory.’ In a masterly way he treats of the habit of
keeping ‘‘ guests,” summing up the records of their occurrence with each
individual species. As many as nearly 70 species of inhabitants are
recorded for several species. In fact many ants throughout the world
seem to keep quite a “ Zoological garden ”’ on their own account, except
48 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD.
that many of the ‘‘ guests” are apparently voluntary and the benefit
is mutual. The illustrations, photographic and diagrams, are not
stinted and put in wherever they are needed to aid in identification, or
to illustrate structure or habitat. The get up of the book, which’ is
reset and rearranged throughout, is very attractive, printed with para-
graphs, varied type and headings, so that one never gets tired in looking
up information, and comparisons can the more readily be made. It is
perhaps too much to hope that the third edition may be needed in
another decade, for so exhaustive has been the study of this small
group that one can assume that little remains to be discovered in their
economy and habits, although much may be added to our knowledge
of their distribution in hitherto unworked corners even of our British
Islands. Author and publishers are to be congratulated on their
successful efforts, and may the circulation of the book remunerate all
concerned for their meritorious work.—H.J.T,
B IT UARY.
George T. Porritt, F.L.S., F.E.S.
The lintomological Society of London is gradually losing from its
ranks, men who, for the past fifty years or more have helped to make
the Science of Entomology what it is to-day. In G.T. Porritt we lose
a name familiar to all the older entomologists, as one of the most
active collectors and students of the British insect fauna. In books
and magazines of the “seventies’” and onwards for fifty years,
he was referred to or contributing articles, notes, criticisms, and many
were his personal friends and correspondents both old and young.
Even to us within the last two years his suggestions, criticisms and
offers of aid have been freely given in that helpful, friendly spirit
which he always showed. Born in 1848, he had passed the allotted
threescore years and ten, and only within the last year or so, did he
feel that he must give up his frequent business visits to London, on
account of his somewhat failing eyesight. For many years he had
been a member of the South London Entomological Society, and if
the dates of his visits to London allowed, he attended the bimonthly
meetings. He was connected with the Naturalist (Yorkshire) as joimt
editor at its commencement in 1875, and for many years was on the
editorial staff of the Hnt. Mo. Mag. Since 1870 he had been a Fellow
of the Entomological Society of London and had served on its Council,
and he was also a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Of the famous
Yorkshire Naturalist’s Union, he was a strong supporter from its
inception in 1877, and had been its President. The Lepidopterists
know him chiefly by his editorship of the Ray Society’s volumes on The
Larvae of British Butterflies and Moths, the last five volumes of which
he prepared for press after the death of the author, his friend Wm.
Buckler. On the more scientific side he was much interested, wrote
and read papers on Melanism, so many instances of which he met
with in his home neighbourhood of Hudderstield and South-West.
Yorkshire. All of us, who knew him, have pleasant memories of bim
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Some Swiss Micro-Lepidoptera, 7. Bainbrigge Fletcher, R.N., F.L.S., F.E.S.,
On the Variations of Coenonympha arcania and C. gardetta (satyrion), Roger Verity,
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DR. VERITY AND NOMENCLATURE. : 49
Dr. Verity and Nomenclature.
By G. T: BETHUNE-BAKER, F.L.S., F.E.S,
I want to reply to Dr. Verity’s note om nomenclature, ante p. 29
principally to correct an impression (a false impression) that has been
referred to by several readers, some verbally, but also by way of reply.
Those who have followed the politics of this country and especially
the foreign politics, will be well aware of the soubriquet of the late
Lord Curzon in the House of Commons and in political cireles gener-
ally, he was ‘a superior person.’’ He himself was well acquainted
with the nick-name, and it is known that at times it even had some
influence, if not on his action at least in his public utterances. | must
admit that when I read Dr. Verity’s letter (and others felt it also) it
produced in my mind the impression of a marked superiority over
those who differed from him. Now I am sure this was not in Dr.
Verity's mind when he wrote. | have the pleasure of his personal
acquaintance and I hope of his friendship, for when [ was in Florence
two or three years ago, I had more than one instance of his kindness
and also of his forbearance and moderation in discussion and argument.
I therefore want to say that | am sure the kind doctor did not intend
to assume that attitude, though those, who did not know him person-
ally, would probably think that he did.
Turning now to Dr. Verity’s letter, there are two phrases in it that
call for remark, viz., ‘“‘I fully agree . . . . thatit is high time
to stop naming individual forms . . . . and especially on a
’
single character,” and also ‘‘ When, however, it comes to races, | am
sorry, but my conviction is it is technically necessary to name them.”
I regret much this last sentence, because, first, Dr. Verity’s idea of a
race is quite different from the consensus of opinion and weight of
evidence here (I will deal with this later on) and secondly because he
sets himself up as plaintiff and judge at the same time, and practically
says I shall do as I think best, no matter what is the weight of
scientific opinion on the other side. Now I say quite frankly | am
glad to have Dr. Verity’s theories, we move forward by theorising and
experimenting, but I am not glad to have his innumerable naming of
small variations; it is not helping science. Then he says he agrees it
is time to stop naming individual forms, but he continues doing so.
I.cited a case in my note (ante p. 10) as also a case of a “race” that
was not a race but a mere common variety. The gist of the matter is
the fact that Dr, Verity’s concept of a “‘race”’ differs from the general
concept. Mr. Tams (ante p. 25) has focussed the object right down to
its point. He refers to Rothschild and Jordan’s Revision of the Sphin-
gidae and particularly to its introduction. That book is so valuable
that it is never off my table, and at the risk of repetition I will recapitu-
late their diagnoses of the term varieties. I would like this to sink
into the minds of us all.
“ We distinguish three categories of varieties.
I. Individual variety, the following terms are employed by us :
(1) ab. =aberratio for individuals which stand outside the normal
range of variation.
(2) #.=forma in the case of di- and polymorphism. If a form
occurs rarely, it may be termed, f. ab., in contra-
distinction to f. norm.
Aprit 157TH, 1927
50 THE KNLOMOLOGISL’S RECORD.
(3) @-f, or 3 -f., if the respective form belongs to one sex only.
(4) f. loc.=forma alicuius loci, if, in the case of polymorphism,
a form is restricted to one portion of the range of the
respective variety or species.
II. Generatory variety, this variety 1s seasonal in Lepidoptera and is
designated as
(5) f.t.=forma tempestatis.
Ill. Geowraphical variety or subspecies.—This is the highest category of
varieties. As the term varietas includes also other
varieties, it cannot be employed as such for the geo-
graphical variety except in a precise nomenclature;
either a specifying attribute must be added (var. yeoyr.)
or an abbreviation of another term chosen (subsp.).
But we do not see that it is at all necessary to put
any such abbreviation of a term before the subspecifie
name. We can do without the encumbrance of the
abbreviation—what we can do without is unnecessary ;
and what is an unnecessary tn nomenclature, common-
sense compels us to drop—by (the italics are mine
(6) G.T.B.B.) simply mutually agreeing that a sub-
species is designated by its name added to that of the
species without any abbreviation before the subspecifie
name. This means simplification of nomenclature,
nothing else.”
I know of no definition of this subject as concise and as compre-
hensive as this, and the consensus of scientific opinion in this country
and largely elsewhere also agrees with it.
It is here we part company with Dr. Verity, the word race being
generally accepted as synomymous with sub-species.
Dr. Verity names any insect slightly different that has a large
percentage of the slightly different form. Ina case of this kind 20%
to 80% is a large percentage, but it is not a race at all, it 1s merely
a common variety, and the same would apply to a 75% abundance,
though in this latter case the variety would be rapidly approaching to
the status of a subspecies. In our previous volume, p. 122, Dr. Verity
says ‘‘ ]t is surprising how the geographical variation of coridon has
been neglected: it produces a number of obviously different races,
when sufficiently large series are compared to neutralise the confusion
created by individual differences.” The italics are mine, but this sentence
shows my friend’s idea of races and also his method of study—he
admits great variation and then would eliminate that variation from
his mind and apparently see only the variety he wants to name, and
having eliminated the other varieties, he calls the variety a race so as
to fit it in to his theory, and he goes on in the following pages to name
no less than fifteen forms of coridon many on almost single and
minute and variable differences calling them races. | have very
carefully gone through his paper, with a very large series of coridon
before me from very many localities and | have no hesitation in saying
that if the locality labels were taken off it would be impossible to sort
out those varieties correctly, in fact, without the labels 1 do not believe
Dr. Verity himself could. It is this method that makes us cross
swords with the learned doctor, he eliminates all that does not suit him,
he tells us so as I have quoted, and then proceeds to give us what he
SOME SWISS BUTTERFLIES. 51
calls a ‘“‘ complete picture of geographical variation ” this picture how-
ever, as he tells us, eliminates very much, if not most, of the picture’s
real surroundings ; then he closes with saying, ‘‘ Those who do not
wish to follow us in our exact analysis of Nature’s complexities can
perfectly well ignore the more recent developments of Lepidopterology,
but there seem to be plenty, who do not mind a few names more or
less and are interested in our writings.’’ I would ask Dr. Verity to
exactly analyse that phrase and see where it leaves him and me, not to
say us.
A few names more or less is not the only consideration by any
means, for what we say is, that the exact analysis is not there, we are
given only part of the true picture, according to the artist’s own
admission, for a quarter, or half, or perhaps three quarters of the
picture has been ‘‘ neutralised,’’ not by ‘confusion,’ but by elimina-
tion, and if the artist and the student of phenomena would try and
realise this, I think it might make a modification and would certainly
be better for the science in which we are all fellow workers and each one
endeavouring to take his own individual part.
Referring to our good Secretary's note on the method of names
“in comparison’ I think with him, that if one is giving a list of
captures or a locality list, it is only necessary to say Arctia caja, but
if one is comparing that species with its varieties it is then advisable
to use Arctia caja caja so as to differentiate from Arctia caja baja, (an
imaginary name) or caja nigra or whatever it might be, and here I
would say there should be no hyphen or comma or anything between
caja baja. IL notice in my note (ante p. 11) | am made to use 4.
coridon-roystonensis. I did not put the hyphen there and it should not
be there, though I should like to say here that I should have written
it as coridon f£. roystonensis.
Some Swiss Butterflies in 1925 and 1926.
By T. BAINBRIGGE FLETCHER, R.N.. F.L.S., F.E.S., F.Z.S.
When we concluded, at the beginning of 1925, to take a spell of
leave after fifteen years continuous service in India, my wife and I
decided that a stay in Switzerland was best calculated to secure a happy
holiday, as the bracing air and climate of the Alps would restore health,
which necessarily gets run down in the Tropics even under the best
conditions, whilst the abundant insect fauna would provide both
occupation and enjoyment. Neither of us had ever been to Switzerland
before and, after reading up all the papers on the subject which we
could find in the older volumes of the Hnt. Record and after looking
over a large pile of pamphlets sent to us by the Swiss Federal Railways,
each extolling a different resort as the best of all, we found considerable
difficulty in choosing where we should go first. However, we decided
to select first a place at a moderate elevation and then to go on to a
real alpine locality later on, and Grimmialp and Arolla caught our
fancy as fulfilling these requirements, and | may add here that we did
not regret either choice.
Grimmialp seems to be very little known entomologically, if not
unexplored altogether. It is not included at all in the lists of localities
given by Wheeler or by Vorbrodt, and we were told there that no
52) THE KNLOMOLOGIST’S+ RECORD.
entomologist had visited it: previously; yet it is easily accessible ands
provided some interesting captures. It 1s reached from Spiez by-rail:
to Oey, on the Spiez-Montreux railway, and from Oey a good road*up:
Diemtigen valley takes one after about eight miles to Grimmialp,
situated at just over 4,000 feet at the entrance of four valleys and sets
in: pleasant surroundings of alpine meadows, forests. and peaksi
Scattered over the lovely meadows, whose fresh greenness: and) wealth:
of flowers wre a joy to the eyes, are a few wooden chalets built in thes
picturesque style of the Bernese Oberland. On a great natural terrace,.
the Schwendenegg, formed by an ancient moraine, stands the comfortable
and commodious Hotel, from which access is easy to numerous good:
collecting-places in the valleys of the Filderich to the South-Hast; of:
the Grimmi (or Senggi) to the South-West, of the Alp to the North- .
West, and of the Diemtigen to the North-East. The slopes. onsall:
sides are crowned by thick forests of conifers whose dark green contrasts:
admirably with the lighter tints of the meadows lower down. Peaces
and beauty are the key-notes of the scenery in all directions.
We reached Grimmialp on June 28rd 1925 and stayed until July:
16th. The breaking up of a long spell of fine weather unfortunately
coincided with our arrival, so that at first’ the weather was wet and
cold, with fresh snow on the surrounding hills, but it improved by thes
end of June and: we enjoyed: many glorious. days, exploring the
surroundings and finding numerous collecting-places, one of the best»
of those being at the foot of the flowery slopes on either bank of the:
Filderich stream just above the wooden foot-bridge in the direction ofy
Gsiir.
We left on July 17th for Zirich to attend the Entomological,
Congress, during which two trips were made to the Uetliberg (about:
2700 feet), where the best collecting ground seemed to be in the vicinity.
of the railway station just below the summit. Here Apatura iris was
fairly common and Limenitis rivularis (camilla) was also taken.
On July 27th we left Ziirich, vid Bern, the Loetschberg, Brigue
and Sion, and arrived the same evening at Evoléne, at about 4,500 feet
in the Val d’Herens. The next two days were gloriously fine and
yielded many interesting captures: but July 80th and 31st were wet
and cold and little could be done. lWvoléne has already been described
by Tutt in the Mut. Record (Vol. XVI., p. 146) so that it is unnecessary:
to. say much about it here; but from the brief glimpses which we had:
of ‘it, it seems quite a good locality for collecting and would repay a+
longer visit.
Luckily the morning of August 1st was fine and we set out for»
Arolla, distant some eight miles and about 2,000 feet above Evoléne,)
and only accessible by a mule-track above Les Haudéres. As we rode»
up this track, numerous Parnassins apollo and ‘other butterflies were
flying around, but Evoléne had already provided a good series of these»
and so we were able to admire them without any ulterior designs oni:
their liberty. Arolla was reached in about three hours and a. brief)
hunt in the afternoon in the pine-woods around the. Grand. Hotel
revealed a veritable garden of wild flowers. and: a. wealth of ‘insect:
life, of which a large proportion possessed all the charm of novelty.
We stayed at Arolla during the whole of August 1925 and had many
perfect days with a nob: excessive proportion of wet and snow.on the
ground on two occasions (August 2nd and 12th); the snow-fall, .
“SOME SWISS BUTTERFLIES. 53
»however, was followed by bright. days and it was curious to note
butterflies flying actively in the bright sunshine over the snowy ground
sand vegetation. Arolla has been so excellently described by Tutt (Mut.
Rec. XVII. 1-6) that I eannot add much to his description. In fine
weather it is an ideal place for a holiday, its only draw-baek being that
it is cold when wet and rather inaccessible. .A few of the butterflies
which Tutt mentions were not met with by me but on the other hand
-I came across many which ‘he does not record. A notable absentee
was Pieris callidiee, which Tutt. found commonly in the Hotel grounds,
but-of which I saw:no trace; probably it was over earlier than usual.
We left Arolla on. September Ist and went down to Montreux-
Clarens, where we 'found very excellent accomodation at the Hotel
Liliana, and stayed there until October 26th, 1925, returning there
ragain from May 27th to July 17th a::d from September 8th to.17th, 1926.
Montreux itself is not a very good collecting-ground for butterflies.
‘but forms an admirable centre for collecting-trips in its vicinity, as
there-are many electric trams and railways to localities near by and on
the hills above it, and frequent and convenient train services to more
‘distant places such as Martigny and Kelépens. ‘Jt may ‘be useful to
refer here to-some of these. Blonay (about 2,000 feet) is easily reached
-by the grey tram which starts from the Clarens Quay ; taking this tram
to Fontanivent or Brent, one follows'the path to the right just before
the bridge at Brent, crosses:the bed of a-small stream, where there are
usually many Pararye maera:on ithe stones, and passes through a small
-kitchen-garden above the ‘right bank; here one is at the foot of «a
flowery slope, with-sunny aspect , with a footpath leading up the slope
to Blonay. This slope, especially tbe foot of it, is quite'a good
collecting ground. rom Blonay.a rack-railway runs to the top of Les
Pleiades, about 4,500 feet, where Hrebta medusa and Coenonympha iphis
occurred -commonly—the former, indeed, abundantly—at the end of
June, 1926. Limenitis populi also occurs in the woods.a little below
ithe summit, but I did not see it there myself. There are several
‘stations and halts on the way up and one day | got out at Fayaux (about
-8,000 feet) collected around there and walked down, ‘but, except for
one Lycaena arion, did not obtain anything ‘which J did-not:get at Les
‘Pleiades or at Blonay. Mont Pelerin is reached by a funicular railway
from Vevey; we only visited it once, on September 22nd, 1925, when
it was too late in:the season, butit did not look very promising. Les
Avants (about 3,500 feet is reached by ithe Montreux:Oberland irailway
from which one gets :a splendid view of Montreux and the Lake of
Geneva as the electric train climbs the hillsides; we went there on
June 12th and 21st, 1926, striking up the steep road towards the Jaman,
and collected chiefly in a-small valley exposed to the sun and:gay with
Nareissus and .Glove-flowers. Here, in.a very restricted area thickly
overgrown with Polygonum and dock, Heodes (Chrysophanus).am phidamas
was quite common, as ‘was also Pamplila palaemon, whilst the
delightful little Adela rufimitrella was visiting flowers of Cardamine
pratensis.
Caux (about:8,000 feet) ison the raeck-work railway to the Rochers
de Nay (about 7,000 fest), which we also visited on October 7th 1925,;
but :there had: been snow and !frost and all the local butterflies seemed
to be quite over, the only species seen being Aglats urticae, Colias
eroceus and ‘QC. ‘hyale, which had doubtless flown up from lower down.
54 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S REOORD.
We visited Caux on June 29th, 1926 and went up the road, above Caux
towards Jaman, to a height of about 4,000 feet. The fields were full
of flowers and hawthorn was still in bloom in shady corners and red
horse-chestnuts still in flower. There were, however, comparatively
few butterflies about, although Erebia medusa was common and in fair
condition and a few Coenanympha iphis were met with.
Returning to the immediate neighbourhood of Montreux, the slobies
above the Clarens gas-works produced a few local butterfiies, including
the only specimen seen of Muchloé simplonia f. flavidior. The woods
above Chillon are also a locality for Limenitis sibilla, Pararge achine,
Coenonympha arcania and Erebia ligea. P. achine flies rather sluggishly
in the woods, rather like A. hyperantus, often settling high up in trees,
and there are more about than are seen on the wing, (. arcania seems
to prefer woods to fields, looking on the wing not unlike a Theclid, and
settling on leaves.
Villeneuve is easily reached from Montreux by the tram.
September 8rd, 1913, when the beetle was present in numbers.
Laemophloeus ater, Ol., is parasitic on Phloeophthorus rhododactylus,
Marsh, and may be found in numbers in the burrows of that insect in
gorse ‘and broom. It is very local and rare. I once found it in
numbers in dead broom stems in company with its host at Mildenhall,
on May 17th, 1920.
Laemophloeus clematidis, Kr., is a parasite on Xylocleptes bispinus,
Duft., but is very rare in Britain I only, know of four localities—
Gravesend, Dartford, Henley and Higham. I have never taken it,
though I have found its host in numbers, at Boxhill, ete., and especially,
at Bristol.
Hypophloeus bicolor, Ol. T have little doubt, though I am not
aware if it has been published before, that this beetle is a parasite on
Seolytus destructor and S. mudltistriatus, I took it in company with
Ailonium trisulcum in burrows of S. destructor at Windsor, and Pool
took it with the same three beetles at Enfield. Itisa iaeal and, more
or less, rare beetle. I have also taken it in Scolytus burrows in elm
bark in Richmond Park, ete.
Hypophloeus fravini, WKug., is parasitic on Ips seadentatus, Born.
Over a dozen specimens were taken by Beare, Crystal and the writer,
in the burrows of 7’. sewdentatus in large felled Scots pine in Dean
Forest on August 3rd, 1922.
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A Contribution to the Life-History of Senta maritima, Tausch,
By E. A. COCKAYNE, D.M., F.R.C.P., F.E.S.
The food of the larva of this moth has been a puzzle to entomo-
logists for many years. Barrett quotes Wilde and Hoffmann, who state
that it feeds on other reed-frequenting insects, both larvae and pupae,
and says ‘‘ This seems to be an extraordinary habit, but is confirmed
by Schmidt. Doubtless the ordinary food is the reed-leaves.” Herr
Leonhardt told me that in Hamburg the local collectors go to the reed
beds when the water is frozen and take the larvae, which they bring to
maturity on raw meat and fat.
Mr. H. M, Edelsten told me last year that he believed the natural
food was the delicate lining of the dead reeds. Mr. Edwin Sharp
showed me his larvae at night eating dripping and passing frass, and
this suggested to me a simple way of solving the problem. I collected
larvae from a reed bed in Surrey, finding most of them inside the open
ends of broken reeds. One was hiding in the empty cocoon of a large
ichneumon fly in an old pupation chamber of Nonagria geminipuncta.
I watched my larvae at night and thought I detected one eating the
lining of a reed, and inside another reed I thought I could see a place
where the lining had been eaten. This was inconclusive, so I adopted
the method I had decided on at Kastbourne. Taking frass from half
a dozen boxes, in each of which a single larva had been confined, I
teased the bits out on separate slides and looked at them under the
microscope. In every case the frass was composed of little pieces of
the lining membrane, which showed the cellular structure clearly. In
one bit of frass there were some thin short fibres, that looked like the
woolly substance covering the lining of some stems, and there was a
piece built of larger broader cells than the membranous lining I had
mounted for comparison. To confirm the discovery I examined the
contents of the alimentary canal of a larva, taken a day before and kept
without food, and found similar bits of lining membrane in it. In
every case the frass examined was produced from food eaten before
capture.
This proves conclusively that the usual food of big larvae is, the
lining of the dead reeds, Phragmites arundo, as Mr. Edelsten shrewdly
suspected. I was also lucky in seeing a larva, taken the week before,
in the act of changing skin, its head snow white and the old skin still
clinging to the posterior segments, and so proved that some larvae at
least pass their last instar in the spring. an
With regard to the observations of continental authors there
is no doubt that they will eat larvae of their own species. Three of
mine taken at Haster were eaten in this way. Mr. Sharp tells me
they eat larvae of Chilo phragmitellus, and it is probable that they
will eat those of Leucania straminea, but he thinks that this is due to
thirst. In captivity they are fond of drinking droplets of water and it
may ve necessary to them owing to the dry nature of their food. On
April 24th, I found three pupation chambers. All were in rather large
open-ended broken reeds, which had been closed by thin silk and chips
of reed. About the length of a larva below this was another similar
diaphragm, and the larva itself lay between this and the node. One
larva was dead and black, the others were healthy and one pupated on
April 25th.
May 15rn, 1927.
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66 TH ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD,
Some Observations on Coccinellids and New Aberrations.
By G. CURTIS LEMAN, F.E.S.
Herr Leopold Mader of Vienna is publishing in parts a compre-
hensive and interesting work on Palearctic Coccinellids in the Fnt.
Anzieyer with plates, and has, meantime, sent me his preliminary
separata on his new aberrations published in the same journal in
1926, on both of which I wish to make some observations.
A. Epilachna chrysomelina, L.—Weise (B.T. 1879) locates the spots
on this species as follows: “1 und 2 am Grunde, 8 und 4 in der
Mitte (4 an der Nath gew6bnlich weiter vorn), 5.an der Nath in 2
Linge, und 6 am Aussenrande ein Stiick vor der Spitze,’=2, 2, 1, 1.
His var. niyrescens has any of the following confluences: 4+6, or
8+4+5, or 142, but in view of what follows I cannot help thinking
that his confluence 4+6 should have read 445. At the same time
Della Beffa (Rev. Cocc. It. 1918) and Mader both figure specimens with
4+6.
Be that as it may Weise then describes var. hieroylyphica, Sulz., as
having the two confluences 4+6 and 8+5 forming two long bands
(“ bilden 2 Langsbinden.’’).
In UV Abeille Jour. Entom, XXVIIL..p. 6 (which contains a trans-
lation into French of Weise B-T. 1885, of which [ know of no copy in
England) we find Weise stating that the confluences 345 and 446
form two separate bands (*8+5 et 4+6 formant deux bandes
séparées (hieroglyphica, Sulz.)”’).
Weise continuing in 1879 states that, where 3+5 and 4+6
“‘bilden eine V-formige Zeichnung,”’ we have var. elaterti, Rossi,
while if 142 are also confluent, we get his var. furva.
I have not been able to see the original description of v. hieroglyphica,
Sulz., but if /’ Abeille’s translation of Weise (1885) is correct (and | think
we can well assume this) that this aberration has two separate bands, then
the two confluences must be 4+5 and 3+6 to obtain the V form of
v. elaterti, Rossi, the formula of which must be 8+6+5-+4 to form
this V.
In fact 4+643-++5, 1f correct per Weise, do not make two separate
bands, but an X.
While Mader numbers the spots on his diagram according to Weise,
his plate for ab. hieroylyphica, Sulz., actually shows the two separate
confluences of 8+6 and 4+5.
Della Beffa follows the same procedure, but while his figure agrees
with Mader’s, his text follows Weise !
Accepting Weise’s position of the spots with 5 at the suture and 6
at the apex, the formulae for the above aberrations will be:—
ab. nigrescens, Wse. (s. str.)—1, 2, 3, 4+ 6, 5.
ab. hieroglyphica, Sulz.—1, 2,3+6, 4+5.
ab. elaterti?, Rossi—1, 2, 83+6+5+4.
ab. furva, Wse.—1+2, 84+6+5+4.
In my view ab. niyrescens, Wse., should be limited to the above
forinula, and the other two require new names :—
1. ab. marrineri, m. nov. nom. 1, 2,3+4-+5, 6.
2. ab. sulzeri, m. nov.nom. 1-+2, 8, 4, 5, 6.
and the following are new aberrations :—
NOTES ON SYNANTHEDON FORMICABFORMIS. 67
ab. maderi, m. nov. ab. 1, 2, 3+6, 4, 5.
ab. donisthorpei, m. nov. ab. 152, S405. 6:
ab. beffai, m. nov. ab. 144, 2, 3, 5, 6.
) FOSSli,im, nov, ab. 1,2, 8-6-5240
ab. hawkesi, m. nov. ab. 1, 2, 8,4+5+6.
ab. lestageil, m. nov. ab. 1+42,8+46+45, 4.
ab. meieri, m. nov. ab. 142, 34+4+4+5-+6.
10. ab. weisei, m. nov. ab. 142, 846, 4+5.
I do not find any aberration with Weise’s formula of 1, 2, 3+5,
4+-6, and the two latter forming an X recorded, nor do Della Bonn or
Mader figure any such aberration. .
ODI HH
=
Pie
B. Synharmonia conylobata, L.
(a) Mader in his separata proposes in a laudable attempt at group
naming to give his ab. prunt three separate formulas: 1, 2, 8,
44+5+5, 647, 8: 1, 2, 834+44+5-48%, 647, 8 and 1, 2, 34+4+5+85,
6+7-+8, but his aberration cannot stand for such different formulas
and he agrees with me that ab. pruni must be confined to the first
named formula and to my naming the other two:
ita. prune Mader: N.C 2,coy 2 OE BGs = ts.
2. ab. maderi, m. nov. nom. 1, 2,3+4+5-+5, 647, 8.
3. ab. donisthorpei,m.noy.nom. 1,2,84+4+5+45,6+7+8.
(b) The same remarks apply to ab. importuna, Mader :—
ab. importuna, Mader. 1+2;3+4,5+8, 6+7-+8.
ab. walteri, m. nov. nom. 142,38 445458, 6+7, 8.
ab. depolii, m. nov. nom. 1+2,34+445-+58, 6+7, 8.
ab, marrineri, m. nov. nom. 1+2,3+445-+S, 647-48.
C. Anatis ocellata, L.—Mader in his separata has also attempted
group naming in a series of aberrations which cannot stand and his
new aberrations will only stand for the following formulae and with
this he also agrees ;—
1. ab. 4-notata, Mader—1, 6.
2. ab. 6-notata, Mader—1, 4, 7.
3. ab. S8-notata, Mader—1, 2, 3, 6.
4. ab. 10-notata, Mader—1, 2, 6, 8, 1
5. ab. 12-notata, Mader—1, 2, 4, 6, ils 8.
6. ab. 14-notata, Mader—1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8.
7. ab: 16-notata, Mader—1, 2, 3; 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
In any event in his group 6 Mader had saclbolid ab. prava, Heyd.,
with formula 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
I propose to name the following new aberrations :—
8. ab. maderi, m.n.ab. 1, 2, 4, 6.
9. ab. donisthorpei, m. n. ab. i OB
10. ab. marrineri, m. n. ab. 1, 3, 4, 5, 7,
14, ‘ab: hawkesi, m:n. ab. “1;.3,.7,:8, 9,1
12. ab. caprai, m.n.ab. 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9.
Fea CORN:
Notes on Synanthedon formicaeformis, Esp., in South Hampshire.
By Wm. FASSNIDGE, M.A., F.E.S.
Although no mines of S. flaviventris have been found here so far
this season, one interesting result of prolonged search for them has
been the discovery of a very flourishing colony of S. formicaeformis at
68 THE ENTOMOLOGISYT’S RECORD.
New Milton. This colony presents certain features which have been
considered worthy of record. In the first place the larvae were found
feeding on Salix caprea, and in the second place they were behaving as
genuine gall-makers, which does not appear to have been noted in
England before, and about which considerable doubt seems to exist on
the continent.
With regard to the foodplant the authorities are agreed that the
larva of this Aegeriid mines in various species of Salia, and nearly all
the records give willows and osiers as the usual foodplant, with no
mention whatever of any swelling of the twigs or stems. Buckler gives
an excellent figure of the larva and of a mine which shows no trace of
a swelling. There are records too, of larvae found in the cut stumps
of willows and osiers, and between the living and dead wood of old
willows. In Spuler’s Schmetterlinge und Raupen Europas we find the
following note: ‘‘ According to Gross-Steyr and Sorhagen in goitrous
outgrowths of younger stems and twigs of Salix caprea in sunny
places ; that these growths can be caused by the larvae is improbable,
for the latter are also present without there being any swelling or
similar growth.” Hering, Bivlogie der Schmetterlinge, 1926, says: ‘8S.
flaviventris is found in swellings and S. formicaeformis in goitrous
outgrowths on Salix,” evidently repeating what earlier writers had
said. But by far the most important continental work on the question
of gall-making lepidoptera is: ‘‘ Révision Critique des espéces de
Lépidoptéres Cécidogénes d’ Europe et du Bassin de la Méditerranée ”
by J. de Joannis in Annales Soc. ent. de France, Vol. XCI (1922). This
excellent article is a critical revision of a part only of a more general work
on the plant galls of the same region, and the writer has given in itall
additional knowledge up to 1922, together with some corrections and
additions. Speaking of S. formicaeformis, after quoting all available
information at considerable length he concludes; “the larva of S.
formicaeformis is not a gall-maker, but only an occasional gall-eater,”
and he deletes the insect from the list of gall making lepidoptera. It
is the main purpose of this note to show that S. formicaeformis does
cause galls on Salia caprea, and to reinstate 16 on the short list of
lepidopterous gall-makers.
The locality at New Milton where the insect occurs is a piece of
rough, swampy ground on the outskirts of a wood, where possibly in
the past, sand or gravel has been dug out. The whole expanse is now
overgrown with sallow, birch, briars, buckthorn and bramble, except
for the very wettest spots where grow stunted sallows among fleabane,
rough long grasses and sedge. Where water stands are a few reeds and
bulrushes among the sallows. The mines of the clearwing were found
at heights from just above ground level to the top of the sallow bush.
All the highest mines and a very large proportion of the lower ones
that were in thin stems and twigs had been already in December pecked
open by birds, and the larvae were no longer there. Those hidden by
grass and sedge were invariably untouched, as were usually those in
thicker stems. Mines occurred in stems of thickness varying from one
sixth or even less to nearly one inch in diameter. The age of the stems
where mines were found is estimated as varying from two to five years.
The appearance of the swelling varies very considerably, chiefly
perhaps according to the thickness of the stem, and possibly also to
the number of larvae it contains. In thin twigs I have not been able
NOTES ON SYNANTHEDON FORMICAEFORMIS. 69
to distinguish it from the gall made by Saperda populnea or S. caprea,
of which I have examined many hundreds, or that caused by S.
flaviventris, of which J] have seen about a dozen. It can be assumed, I
think, that normally only one larva is present in a mine, except some-
times in the case of mines in thick stems. In stems near ground level
and hidden more or less among long grass a peculiarly shaped swelling
is often formed, for the diameter of the stem above the gall is greater
than that below, and continues so for some little distance. Where
mines are in the thickest stems there is sometimes very little swelling
and the term gall would perhaps hardly be applicable. In nearly all
cases the characteristic circular scar made by the young larva in its
passage round the stem just under the bark, before it bores into the wood,
can be plainly seen. It is possible that this method of boring first
round the stem horizontally, which is the cause of what | have termed
the characteristic circular scar, may be the direct cause of the swelling,
for it would interfere with the flow of sap, and as mentioned below, it
often causes the upper part of the stem to die off. Only very rarely
were to be found the comparatively large, rough, gall-like excrescences,
caused probably by the presence of several larvae, which are noted as
‘‘ eoitrous outgrowths” by Sorhagen and others. Unfortunately these
large excrescences are very easily discovered by birds, and the two or
three found had been pecked almost to pieces and no larvae were left
in them. All thinner twigs die off above the mine, having been more
or less completely ringed by the larva; they are then easily broken off
and fall to the ground. In several cases where such a break was seen,
the mine containing the larva was found on the ground close by. This
observation applies also to mines of S. pomolnaa occasionally, and of
S. flaviventris perhaps commonly, and may save many larvae from their
ereat enemy the tit. The number of mines collected by myself and my
friend Mr. S. A Jones, of New Milton, was about sixty—not all of
course contained larvae as was afterwards discovered— exclusive of
mines broken open and attacked by birds. A moderate estimate of the
number pecked open by birds would be at least double as many. Of
course it does not follow that because the larvae of S. formicaeformis
were found in these swellings, these latter were therefore caused by
them, but we were unable to find any other possible cause, and up to
the present, after prolonged search and examination of the galls on
sallows during the last three winters, I have not found similar galls in
any other locality, and at New Milton I could not find a gall of this
kind that did not show by the frass that it either was or had been
tenanted by a lepidopterous larva.
A certain number of mines were opened either by accident or design,
and out of about thirty larvae thus seen, only two were found in the
stem just below the swelling, all the others being either in the gall, or
just above it. In one large swelling three fully grown larvae were
found, but it is possible that some workings may contain even more.
The larva of an ichneumon, as yet unidentified, was found occasionally
in the larval borings. It is curious that out of nine specimens of this
ichneumon bred, there was not a single male.
There is no great difficulty in breeding this Aegeriid under ordinary
forcing conditions. In the forcing cage the larvae at once give proof
of their presence by extruding a quantity of frass, so that any mines not
containing a living larva can easily be distinguished. In the present
ra
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case insects began to emerge on March 13th 1927 and up to the end of |
the month 13 had emerged at irregular intervals, 10 females and 8
males. Curiously enough, on January 81st I found a weevil inthe
cage, which had emerged from one of these mined stems of sallow. I
recognised it at once as Cryptorhynchus lapathi, L., a species | had dug
out in fair numbers from mines in alder stems, showing no trace of
any swelling, in the dry bed of the of the Gave de Pau at Luz-St Sauveur
in the Hautes-Pyrénées in August 1926.
As I expect to be away from home during April, a number of mines
were carefully examined on March 81st and the following observations
made: some mines that showed no trace of fresh frass were found to
be untenanted; in the few good mines opened were found one pupa
which bad recently changed, two larvae not yet preparing to pupate
and another spun up in its cocoon; in one swelling a small boring
was observed showing fresh frass, and in it was found a non-lepidopterous
larva about one quarter of an inch long, possibly that of C. lapathi,
the weevil already mentioned.
On the variations and relationship of Coenonympha arcania, L.,
and C, gardetta, De Prun.=philea, Hb.—satyrion, Esp.
By ROGER VERITY, M.D.
(Concluded from page 40.)
Races of exerge gardetta, de Prun.=philea, Hitb.=satyrion, Esp.t
The variations of exerge yardetta are quite different from those of
exerge arcania, because they are much broader and more striking and
it is easy to see they consist chiefly in a series of grades along a single
line of variation, leading from forms scarcely discernible from arcania,
such as nymotypical darwiniana, Stdgr., to the extreme nymotypical
gardetta, so different looking that it has by Wheeler®* (Butt. Switz., p.
118) even been suggested it might be a variety of C. iphis, Schiff. |
My personal experience of them stands as follows: At the Passo
di Colle, m. 1400, above Lake Maggiore, a race referable to darwiniana
on account of the distinct yellow circles edged by a black ring, as in
arcania, constantly present around the eye-spots on underside of hind-
wings, but otherwise very similar in size and in general aspect to epiphilea
(race philedarwiniana, mihi), emerged at the end of June in large
numbers during very few days; by the 6th of Juiy all the individuals
were very worn. ‘There then appeared on the wing some males of the
much larger insubrica, exactly similar to those | bad collected two
weeks earlier lower down on the same mountains; at the Passo di
Colle they were, however, accompanied by individuals indistinguishable
from them by their size and by the look of upperside, but which on the
underside of hindwings were like philedarwiniana: broad white space
including the first eye-spot and with its inner outline lacking the
central projection towards cell (form insubridarwiniana, mihi).
* The suggestion was not mine, but Tutt’s.—G.W.
+ In 1871 Kirby pointed ont that philea, Hb., was prior to satyrion, Esp. In
F. Moore’s annotated copy of Kirby’s Cat., which I possess, gardetta, de Prun. is
held by F.M. to be philea, Hb.—H.J.T.
VARIATIONS AND RELATIONSHIP OF COENONYMPHA ARCANIA, ETC. 71
Amongst the philedarwiniana, I have collected another form of
transition to arcania exactly similar to fig. 186-7 of Herrich-Schiffer,
which is the “type” of Staudinger’s darwiniana, because he quotes it
in his original description of 1871: it is a little larger than philedar-
winiana, the eye-spots of underside are larger and have thicker rings ;
the first, or costal one, stands a little further from the second and the
white space is as narrow as in the parvinsubrica, in which it is narrowest,
so that it only just falls short of being an arcania. What conclusions
is one to draw from these observations ? At first one might think that
two lots of individuals with different features emerging on the same
erounds at a different time could only be two syecies, but the number
of intermediate ones found in both lots must modify this view, suggested
by Guenée and by Oberthiir. Several authors, without going as far
as admitting three species, have maintained that arcania and satyrion
are distinct and they then group darwinitana with the former as its
mountain form. The facts described above prove biologically that,
anyhow, this would be a mistake, because darwiniana in the Tessin acts
as gardetta=satyrion does in other regions, when it meets with true
arcania, and that it should be grouped with the former, in consequence.
I see that Vorbrodt in his “ Schmetterlinge der Schweiz,” 1., p. 102, had
already made this correction. He also states that satyrion must be a
distinct species from arcan/a on the strength of the genitalia. ‘The more
ot these questions [| examine the greater my conviction becomes, that
genitalia are never a conclusive proof, because the sli, catabolic, exerge
of a species can have markedly different ones from its heavy anabolic
exerge, so that it is just as difficult to conclude from genitalia as it is
from other characters. In this case it seems to me the facts observed
on the field are contrary to admitting true specific distinctness. In the
Carnie Alps ep/philea, Rebel, a form of gardetta=satyrion, emerged in
large numbers from the end of June to the beginning of August (females
abundant only from July 25th) in every sort of surroundings, from
900m. upwards. At S. Stefano and at Cima Sappada I struck the two
colonies of true arcania described above, flying amongst bushes, and
around them epiphilea tlitted over the grass. This, asin Tessin, might
seem again to suggest two species, but here, too, there was evidence
to the contrary in that some of these epiphilea exhibited yellow
and black rings around the eye-spots, so that they were exactly like my
philedarwiniana of that region. In the other localities, where arcania
did not exist, not a single specimen was found bearing this character,
so that in the Carnic Alps it was obviously due to interbreeding. The
frequency of these intermediate individuals here, as in Tessin, and the
existence of these successive grades, which, also racially, lead gradually
from extreme gardetta=satyrion to arcania are, it seems to me a proof
that there is no sterility between them and thus no specific distinction.
One can only suppose that the two possess distinct hereditary
characters, which are kept up by the fact their different constitutions
oblige them to inhabit different regions. As, however, the active
catabolic one of arcania causes 1t to spread in every possible direction,
it is continually pushing up the Alpine valleys and encroaching on the
grounds of yardetta=satyrion, where it succeeds by its strong physio-
logical reaction and vitality to fix itself and to survive in particularly
sheltered and less unfavourable spots. The yardetta=satyrion consti-
tution, at least as far as the philedarwiniana grade, seems to be the
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anabolic one of the species: most of the vitality is concentrated in the
reproductive organs; some females are so loaded with ova they can
scarcely fly and the swarms of individuals one meets with show how
actively they reproduce; the soma is thus sluggish, its physiological
reaction weak, and it cannot face variable and unfavourable conditions,
so that it has been obliged to gradually develop an organic balance
exactly adjusted in each case to its surroundings, and it cannot wander
away from them: the extreme yarde(ta=satyrion race is found in the
colder and damper localities of the western Alps, of their northern
watershed, and of the Carpathians; on the drier Dolomites epiphilea
replaces it nearly entirely and on the still drier and more barren
summits of the Tessin philedarwiniana and probably, in some localities,
darwiniana in the exact, restricted, sense of this name, are racially
fixed. [ have observed that the two latter are much more active than
the two former and that they fly on stony slopes, settling on the stones
and on bushes, whereas the others prefer grass and damp spots on the
roads which pass through it, flitting lazily and heavily on their
flimsy wings. I have already shown how several Palaearctic Lepidop-
tera exhibit this phenomenon of having split into two groups, one
catabolic and the other anabolic, usually inhabiting different regions
and only blending along the boundary between the two, so that they
are “exerges.”’ One can assume that the gardetta =satyrion exerge was
evolved during the epochs of glaciation, which were too much even for
the adaptability of true arcania, so that it was only by modifying its
organic balance that it succeeded in surviving conditions similar to
those now existing on the Alpine summits. During these epochs true
arcania probably retired southward and the two fluctuated and replaced
each other according to the alternate climates of the various epochs.
It seems likely that arcanioides, Pier., of North Africa is also but a
third exerge, which could perfectly interbreed with arcania, but which
is organically modified so as to stand great heat and long periods of
drought. Their relationship will have to be worked out in Southern
Spain, if they really meet there, as stated by Ribbe and Seitz, but the
latter’s expression that ‘“ stray ’’ specimens are known from it, seems
hardly appropriate and their supposition that an insect such as
arcanioides should get blown over from Africa every year seems rather
fantastic.
The following summary of forms and races of exerge yardetta will
clear and complete the remarks | have made above about it:
Group darwiniana, Stdgr.: Upperside markings as in the individuals
of arcania with broadest black outer area of forewing; on underside
apical eye-spot of forewing nearly always present, but on an average
smaller than in arcania; on hindwings inner outline of white band-
like space lacking the large point, whieh in arcania projects towards
the cell and encroaches on it; eye-spots, on an average, of more equal
size; first not set as far (inward) from the others; yellow circles paler ;
black rings thinner :—
Grade I: nymotypical darwiniana, Stdgr., as figured by Herr.-
Schiiff., from the Valais (Vol. I., p. 85) : size, intensity of colour and
general appearance as in parvinsubrica, but with the white band and
the eye-spots as just described ; in that figure the band is also extremely
narrow, but this is, no doubt, purely individual, as in some
parvinsubrica.
VARIATIONS AND RELATIONSHIP OF COKNONYMPHA AROCANIA, ETC. 73
Grade I. bis: insubridarwiniana, Vrty.: very large size and bright
colours, as in insubrica, but with outline of broad white band and eye-
spot features characteristic of the darwiniana Group. | have stated
my “‘type”’ emerged in company with insubrica, later than the philedar-
winiana of the same locality, so that it may constitutionally be an
arcania rather than a yardetta.
The race Oberthiir describes (Ht. Lép. Comp., LV., p. 28) from
Fusio and which he says is larger and brighter than the one of the
French Basses-Alpes evidently consists of forms similar to the two
just described.
Grade I].: philedarwiniana, Vrty.: similar to epiphilea of the
following Group by its smaller size and duller colouring than in the
preceding and by the general features of underside, but distinguishable
from it at a glance by the nearly constant presence of the apical eye-
spot of forewing and by that of pale, but distinct, yellow rings around
those of hindwing. A few specimens I have from the Simplon and
others from the Basses-Alpes, seem to belong te a race identical with
my ‘‘ typical” one from the Southern Tessin (Lake Maggiore). ‘This
is probably also the darwiniana, which I'rtbstorfer says is prevalent at
Klausen, in 8, Tyrol.
Group gardetta, De Prun.: Size much smaller than in arcania ;
frailer structure ; wings more flimsy; colouring much duller; tendency
of black suffusion to invade the whole of forewing ; on underside, apical
spot of forewing usually entirely obliterated or reduced to a minute dot ;
eye-spots of hindwing small, all of about equal size and set at equal
distances from each other; no trace of the yellow circles nor of the
black rings around them, except, occasionally, a trace of yellow in some
races; there usually is a broad, shaded, grey suffusion along outer-
margin of forewing ; the white band-like space of hindwing is prolonged
anteriorly along the costa, well beyond the first eye-spot, which if
encloses broadly.
Grade ILI.: epiphilea, Rebel: forewing still broadly fulvous in the
majority of individuals, but of a dull, saturated tone, often partly
suffused thinly with black scales. [ts author gives Switzerland, Tyrol
and Carinthia as its habitat. He names orientalis a very similar form
from Eastern Bosnia, which he had described and figured in the Ann.
Naturh. Hofm., X1X., p. 174, pl. V., from a single specimen ; amongst
niy Carnic specimens | have several exactly like his figure in all respects,
except the double apical eye-spot, which surely, can only be aberrant.
With it Frtuhstorfer (l.c., p.4) compares a race from Saratow and from
Serbia, which he names chrysoaspida, but these two extraordinarily
different localities and the vagueness of his description are very
unsatisfactory.
Grade IV.: philea, Hub.=satyrion, Esp. The former in his text
of 1805 (where he renames it neoclides, without giving any reason) gives
“the Alps of Tvrol and also the mountains of Savoy” as habitat; the
latter gives ‘‘Bunden” and his original text ends with this word,
which I take to mean the Grisons (Charpentier in his edition of 1830
carried it on, adding more localities). Their ‘‘ types”’ thus were from
the Eastern Alps, Hiibner’s is a male, entirely overshaded with black
scaling on upperside, except a light suffusion of fulvous scales on the
inner half of forewings ; Esper’s is a female with forewings entirely
ochreous and hindwing only lightly overshaded with grey. The latter
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form is prevalent in some localities and especially in the less damp
Eastern Alps, whereas in others, and especially in the Western Alps,
the females have a broad black margin to forewing and the bindwing
is entirely dark. As a matter of fact, in these two races both sexes
differ in that the first is less saturated with pigments, whilst the second
gives the impression of being more heavily coloured and more melanie.
This difference shows well even in the extreme individual form unicolor,
Wheeler, produced by both.
Grade IV. bis: gardetta, De Prunner. ‘The Piedmontese race I have
collected in the Cottian Alps is the more richly pigmented one, just
described, and to it applies this name more exactly.
The Basses-Alpes in May-June, 1926.
By Lieut. E. B. ASHBY, F.Z.S8., F.H.S.
(Continued from page #2.)
The Coleoptera which I obtained at Digne and district during this
trip were Lytta vesicatoria, L., locally abundant on small trees up the
Grand Gorge on the way to the Mt. Cousson; Anthawria cyanicornis,
Fab. (=hunyarica, Scop.) ; Cicindela campestris, L.; Clytus arietis, L.;
Rhagiwn inguisitor, Fabr. ; Saperda scalaris, L.; Ayapanthia cardui, Li;
Philonthus cyanipennis, Fabr.; Lampyris noctiluca, L., 2 3 Cantharis
rufa, L.; Cantharis nigricans, Mull.; Clytus arcuatus, L.; Attelabus
curculionoides, L.; Phyllopertha horticola, L.; Cantharis obscura, L.;
Ampedus sanguinenus, L.; Cantharis lividus, L.; Byctiscus beruleti, F. ;
Oedemera flavescens, Li; Oedemerastra podagrariae, L.; Anthaaxia
mitidula, Li; Lacon murinus, Li; Hoplia farinosa, L.; Melanotus
haemorrhoidalis, F.; Lachnaea sewpunctata, Scop. ; Henicopus ater, F.;
Ptosima novem-maculata, Fab.; Harpalus ruficornis, F.; Dascillus
cervinus, Li.; Arinia brevipennis, Ulig., abundant; Hippodamia trede-
cimpunctata, tie; Ocypus morto, G.-R.; Coccinella 11-punctata, Li; C.
bipunctata, var.; Leptura sentellata, Fabr.; Havosoma lusitanica, Le;
Strophosomus lateralis, PIX. ; Molytes ylabratus, F.; Adimonia tanacett,
L.; Cebrio lepturoides, F. 3 Henicopus pilosus, Scop., 2 only ; Pyllobius
pyrt, L.; Psilothrix cyaneus, Oliv.; Jermestes undulatus, Brabm. ;
Gastroidea polygoni, L.; Phyllodecta vitellinae, L.; Coccinella 10-pune-
tata; Corymbites purpurenus ; Otiorrhynchus tenebricosus, Hbst. ; O. pictpes,
F.; Phyllobius maculicornis, Germ.
Leaving Digne on dune 7th I broke my journey, as I bave often
wanted to do, at St. Maurice-en-Triéves, where there is an indifferent
Terminus Hotel. There is excellent ground leading up into the woods
from the station on the west side of the line, and one can collect in
both directions. There was a wealth of flowers, but unfortunately the
sun was hidden and the ground soppy, but I took G. cyllarus, C. min-
imus, Pararye hiera, Leptosia sinapis and M. avrinia with a sprinkling
of Geometers and other insects. I think this ground at St. Maurice-
en-Triéves, of which there is plenty to the west of the railway station,
would yield more profitable results in July and early August.
The Hymenoptera taken during this trip included Crabro lituratus ;
Kumenes coarctata, L.; Halictus sewfasciatus ; Coelivxys quadridentata ;
Allantus perkinsi; Halictus scabiosae (zebrus), Rossi; Anthophora
acervorum, Li; Meleeta luctuosa, Seop.; Anthidiun manicatum, Li;
NOTE ON ANTIQUITY OF ORTHOPTEROUS. GROUPS. 75
Bombus ligustieus ; Chalicodonia muraria; Pedanaspis crassitarsis,
Costa: Salius fuscus, 9, L.; Athalia glabricollis; Bombus sylvarum';
Tenthredopsts excisa ; Xylocopa cyanescens ; Proanthidium laterale, Latr.
=4-lobum, Per, ; Odynerus parietum, L.; Teuthredopsis litterata, Geoftr. ;
Allantus dahlii, Klug.: A. bifasetatus, Mull. : A. amaenus, Gravenhorst
cingulum, Kl; Osmia kohli, Ducke; O,. tricornis, Latr.; Oryssidae +
Oryssus abietinus, Scop. ; scarce in collections, life-history required to be
described ; Psammochares fuscus, L.3 P. viaticus, Fabr.; Macrophya
blanda, F.; Xylocopa cyanescens, Brallé.; Andrena morio; Nomada
succincta ; Grorytes mystaceus; Osuna pilicornis ; Arye enodis ; Anthophora
megilla; A. fulvitarsis var, scopipes, Spin.; Anthophora retusa, var.
nigra. These were all taben in the environs of Digne.
(To be concluded.)
Note on the Antiquity of some Orthopterous Groups.
By MALCOLM BURR, D.Sc., F.E.S.
Although the fossil orthopterous and orthopteroid insects have been
studied in some detail, there is an aspect of the geological side of
Orthopterology which I have seldom noticed referred to, perhaps due
to lack of familarity with recent literature. There are two points that
have struck me as of extreme interest and I think they are worth
putting on record in the hope of stimulating students to further
investigation.
Probably everyone, who has collected in Spain, is familiar with a
numerous group of big, fat, sluggish grasshoppers, which are common
in bushes all over the peninsula, called the Mphippigeridae; they are
obese, with big, round heads, staring eyes, plump abdomen and no
wings, while the elytra are reduced to mere stridulating instruments.
There are probably about a hundred species, and if their distribution
be plotted on the map, it covers an area shaped like a horseshoe with
the centre about Gibraltar, the two arms extending westwards on the
two sides of the Mediterranean ; the main mass extends to the Atlas on
the south and to the Pyrenees on the north, whence they thin out
towards the west; in Europe, two or three species reach the coast of
Dalmatia, and one only, the advance guard of a perhaps extending group,
reaches northern France, central Europe and as far east as the middle
of Russia. There are several other groups by no means closely allied
which have similar general characteristics, evidently a case of parallel
development, such as the Bradyporidae of the Pontic fauna, the Zichyas
of Central Asia, and the Hetrodidae of Africa, though the latter are
fairly close to the K'phippigeridae. Apart from purely structural features,
the HM phippigeridae have the peculiarity that both sexes chirp equally well,
and that they stridulate with anger when handled, as well as from sheer
jote de vivre.
The most characteristic species in Spain is /. perezt, one of the
largest and widest spread in the Iberian Peninsula. In the Balearic
Islands, at least in Majorca, there is a species, F’. balearica, which is so
closely allied that it is hardly more than a local form, distinguishable
only by a slightly different shape of the pronotum.
Now it is agreed among geologists that the Balearic Islands were
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separated from the mainland of southern Spain during the Oligocene
Period, when great earth movements formed the Straits of Gibraltar and
connected up southern Spain with the mainland of Europe. Conse-
quently, the Balearic Ephippigers have been isolated from the main
stock since the Oligocene and yet during this great lapse of time, they
have only developed a trifling physical difference. Even if we admit
that their isolated position has protected them from the intensity of the
struggle for existence which has been keener on the mainland, we are
compelled to ask how long it has taken to develop the four or five score
of species, with several genera, and to conclude that the family itself
must be of very ancient origin.
The other case occurs among the earwigs. There is a small
subfamily called the /sphalmeninae, with but a single genus comprising
about half a dozen species. They are flightless creatures and flattened,
probably living under stones; their abdomen is dilated posteriorly,
sometimes remarkably so; in these characteristics they resemble several
other groups, especially the Psalidae; a clear case of parallel develop-
ment. But they are sharply distinguished by the marked narrowing of
the prosternum posteriorly, and above all by the peculiar and complex
development of the male genital armature. They are characteristic of
the Andes, from Patagonia to Ecuador and are rare in collections. But
there is one species, . peringueyi, from the Caledon River, Cape
Colony.
When I first referred this species to this genus Zacher wrote me
that surely | must be mistaken, as | had acted upon external features
only. I was then lucky enough to secure some material in alcobol and
so able to examine the genitalia, and this completely vindicated my
determination ; the armature was extremely close to the known arma-
tures of the Andean forms and quite different from any other type
known in the Dermaptera. The South African species is an undoubted
EKsphalmenid and very closely related to the Andean species, the
differences being not greater than specific.
Now there is much evidence to show that the southern portion of
Africa, the Falkland Islands and part of South America were part of
one continent through vast ages of geological time, at least from the
Lower Carboniferous to the end of the Trias, when it seems that they
were separated. If that is so, ’. peringueyi has been separated from
its congeners since the end of the Trias, during which vast interval of
time it has developed only specific characters ; how great, then, must
have been the lapse during which the subfamily developed its identity,
and how ancient it must be, and how inconceivably old must be the
splitting of the Proto—from the Hu-dermaptera and the evolution of
the earwigs as a group. The Tertiary earwigs of Florissant, described
and figured by Scudder, have apparently a decidedly archaic appearance,
though the earwigs preserved so perfectly in Oligocene amber in the
Baltic have a very up-to-date look. Yet the Msphalmeninae of the Trias
must hardly have been different from those of to-day.
Very numerous cases of like nature among the Orthoptera could
doubtless be quoted; it seems certain that the existing distinctive
sroups of the Orthoptera are extremely ancient. But so few are
preserved in fossil form that it is only by a study of their geographical
distribution that we can form a conception of their antiquity.
NOTES ON COLLECTING. 17
Our general knowledge of the orthopterous fauna of the world has made
great strides in recent years and it is not now premature to attempt
generalisation on this fascinating, but so far much neglected, aspect of
Orthopterology.
YOTES ON COLLECTING, etc.
REFERENCES FOR COLLECTING IN THE I.NGADINE AREA :—
Eneapine :—Fint. Rec. XX VII. 168, ete. Hnt. Mo. May. XXXIV.
25: XLIV. 288. Ent. XVIII. 307.
Pontresina :—Hnt. Rec. XIX. 48: XX. 198: XXIV. 266: XXVI.
228, etc. Hnt. Mo. Mag. XX XVII. 130, ete.: Hnt. VII. 77.
St. Morirz :—Ent. Rec. XXIV. 87.
Bernina Pass :—Fnt. Rec. XXIV. 88: XXVI. 248.
Guarpa :—Hnt. Rec. XXI. 166.
Ansuta Pass :—fint. Rec. XIX. 48: XXIV. 41.
Matoya Pass :—EHnt. Rec. XIX. 42.
Roseee Tuan :—Hnt. Rec. XIX. 43: XX. 194.
Zernetz :—Hnt. Rec. XXI. 197.
Suvretta THau:—Fnt. Rec. XIX. 44.—H.J.T.
HisernatEeD Ponyeonra c-aLBumM.—It may be of interest to note
that hibernated P. c.-album, have appeared in my garden to-day, March
17th, and also Gonepterya rhamni.—Prrer Haia-THomas, F.E.S., The
Grange, Goring-on-Thames.
Micro-Lepiportera or THE British Isuus.—May I suggest that a
new list of the so-called ‘‘ micros” would fill a long felt want and
would probably pay for the trouble and expense.—(Lieut.) S. A. Jonzs,
“ Biskra,’’ New Milton, Hants.
[Much as we should welcome this project we doubt whether at
the present time a dozen copies would be sold. The number of those
who are interested in the “ micros” is almost negligible. It is very
rarely that “micros” are exhibited in our societies except now and
again a species which has demonstrated its power to be of economic
importance.—Hy.J.T. |
A HUMOROUS EXPERIMENT WITH PRoossstonaL CaTEeRPILLArs.—The
Evening News in its issue of February 12th, describes an amusing experi-
ment played upon the Colony of these insects at the Zoological Gardens,
which is perhaps worth recording in a Jess ephemeral journal. On
the occasion of one of their periodical route marches the experiment
was made of linking up the head of the procession to the tail by means
of the guiding silk thread laid by the leader, with the result that,
although the leading caterpillar may have been somewhat surprised
at finding himself unexpectedly at the rear of his column, he did not
hesitate, but loyally followed on and so the caterpillars solemnly
tramped round and round for a day-and-a-half. When tired they are
stated to have simply curled up where they were, and on waking to have
resumed their rotatory peregrination, and that though food was plenti-
ful, apparently they ignored it. The end of this rotatory walk would
obviously have proved disastrous had not one caterpillar fallen out
from exhaustion, and in his fall carried away some of the guiding
thread, with the result that, before he could resume his place, he had
78 THE ENLOMOLOGISL’S RECORD.
automatically become the leader, and the rest following loyally after
him down the thread, the vieious circle was broken. The writer
pathetically adds how happy certain Politicians would be if only their
followers were as faithful !—G.C.L.
GYURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES.
The Annual Appeal is being made for the Wicken Ken Fund, for
the upkeep and supervision. There is no endowment to rely upon and
the only regular income in the past has been from the sale of the sedge
for litter. Owing to the decrease in horse traction the demand for
sedge is very small and this source of income is fast failing, so that if
the fen is to be kept in its normal natural condition further sources of
income must be encouraged. If the fen be left without care, the whole
character of the growth will soon become altered and with the change
will come the consequent alteration in the fauna. What is now so
interesting to the student and to the lover of nature under the
uncommon local conditions prevailing will gradually pass away without
possibility of renewal. Mr. W. G. Sheldon would be only too pleased
to receive subscriptions sent to him at the Entomological Society’s
oftices, 41, Queen’s Gate, 8. Kensington, 8. W.7.
We should like to call attention to the two journals published by
our correspondent and friend Dr. Walther Horn, of the Deutsches
Entomologisches Institut, Berlin-Dahlem. The Hntomoloyisches
Mitteilimyen is issued in 6 parts each year, the whole volume contain-
ing about 450 pages with plates and text figures. The articles are not
all in German, some. are in French, English and Italian. At the
price of M8, eight shillings, this is extremely reasonable. The other
journal Supplementa Hntomoloyica comes out at irregular intervals
and consists of a series of monographs of various groups, from one to
three numbers a year. Several numbers have dealt with the Fauna
of Formosa and shortly several parts will treat of the insect fauna of
Sumatra. The price of the parts are about M6 each with a discount
to subseribers. of the Hunt. Mutt. One or two numbers of the latter in
our library are of the utmost use for reference, and we are pleased to
call attention to these publications.
Capt. A. Pearman, ‘‘ Kgerton House,” Christchurch Street, Ipswich
is anxious to get into touch with micro-lepidopterists in the eastern
counties. Unfortunately we know of none in that area at the present
time. Indeed there seem but few workers at this group now.
We hope our subscribers are getting their copies regularly. It is
rarely that the magazine is delayed issue more than a day or two. One
of our American subscribers received only three numbers out of eleven
sent him last year. Will our subscribers let us know of any such
irregularity in receipt, within a reasonable time from the date of issue.
Some time ago a number of copies were found deposited in the letter-
box of an empty bouse with a considerable amount of correspondence,
put there by a “ Weary Willie”’ specimen of a postman.
In the Knt. News for March is an interesting review of Warren’s
Monograph of the Hespertinae, which was recently issued by the Ent.
Soc. of Lond. It is really a paeon of praise throughout, of the
“excellence ” of the work, ‘‘ a remarkable paper, which seems to be
the last word as to the Huropean species, and which also contains a
great deal of information on the subject of the male genitalia and on
REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 79
the other species of the old world.” Of the plates the reviewer says
“their unusual clearness and accuracy in reproduction, and the general
set up of the plates, without crowding and well arranged, make it
exceedingly pleasing to the eye, and in my opinion, truly artistic.”
We should like to eall attention to one of our newer contemporaries,
the Zeit. Osterreichischen Entom.-Vereines, Wien, which, established in
1916, bas apparently come to stay. Hach monthly part contains 10 to
12 pages and there are occasional piates (three this year already, two
of which are coloured) and numerous half-tone figures. The matter is
practically wholly lepidopterous and many forms new to the Palaearctic
Fauna are described and the articles by some of the leading Austrian
entomologists are of a high order. Among the contributors during the
past year are Dr. Schaweda, Dr. Zerny, Dr. J. F. Berger, H. Neustatter,
H. Kauty, Prof. H. Rebel, H. Reisser, Fritz Wagner, Jos. Nitsche, ete.
The amount of information in the limited space is quite remarkable.
It is announced that there will shortly be published a comprehensive
work, The Butterflies of California, written by Dr. John Adams
Comstock, Los Angeles, Cal. A great feature of the work is stated to
be the coloured plates of which there are sixty-three. Every species, of
both sexes where necessary, are figured, with many of the more
obtainable varieties. The life-histories are fully described, where known,
and there are many half-tone and line illustrations in explanation,
The various plates sent out with the prospectus show that the work
must prove very useful in identification. It is interesting to note in the
fauna of the Western side of the Rocky Mts. that many species and
forms of species occur which are not present in the vast plains and
mountains of the Kastern United States, and also that the number of
species recorded is considerably greater.
FREVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS.
Foria Myrueconocica wt Termirotocica.—T his interesting little
Magazine is of comparatively recent origin, the first part of Volume I.
having been published in October, 1926; and the second and third
part together in November and December, 1926. It is produced by
Dr. Anton Krausse of Eberswalde, and printed at the Hussiten
Druckerei, Bernom bei Berlin. The sub-editors are Dr. R. Brun,
Prof. Dr. Ed. Bugnion, Prof. Dr. H. von Buttel-Reepen, Mons. Bruno
Finzi, Prof. Dr. August Forel, Dr. N. A. Kemner, Herr R. Kleine,
Herr Heinrich Kutter, Dr. Carlo Menozzi, Prof. Dr. A. Reichensperger,
Dr. Santschi, Forstmeister Schulz, Dr. R. Staiger, Dr. G. Steiner, Dr.
Heinrich Stitz, Prof. Dr. E. Strand, Dr. Graf Hermann Vitzthum,
Dr. E. Wasmann, 8.J., Prof. Dr. W. M. Wheeler and Prof Dr. M.
Wolff. The contents of Part 1 consist of :—‘‘ Ants of the Balearic
Islands,’ by W. M. Wheeler; “ Deux nouvelles fourmis parasites de
l’Argentine”’ by Santschi; ‘ Kénnen myrmekophile Brenthiden
fliegen,” by R. Kleine ; ‘Kin neues Formicarium,” by Anton Krausse ;
and ‘“ Unterirdische “ Grabkammern’ in einem Nest von Mormica
pratensis,” by R. Staiger.
As its name implies this publication is entirely devoted to Ants
and Termites, and is indispensable to all students of those orders.
The last number seen was published in February.—H.D.
Brotogiz pER HymENopTEREN EINE NaAtTURGESCHICHTE DER Havr-
80 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD.
rLuGierR, by Dr. H. Bischoff, Custodian of the Zoological Museum of
the University of Berlin. pp. 600, figs. 224. RM. 27.—This is
another of those valuable works on natural history rather than
systematics, of which we have had other excellent examples in the past
few years, such as Butler’s ‘‘ Biology of the British Hemiptera-
Heteroptera,” Hering’s “ Biologie der Schmetterlinge,” Forel’s “ Les
Mondes Social des fourmis,”’ and Wheeler’s ‘ Social Life among the
Insects.” Chap. I. Gives an account of the general structure of the
Hymenoptera, a summary of the systematic arrangement, a short
sketch of the phylogeny of the order, with notes on its distribution and
the incidence of the lines of variability. Chap. Il. Movement and Rest.
The mechanics of flight and the power of spring are correlated with the
structure of legs and wings, with the modifications for special move-
ments such as under-water progress and larval habits. The daily
resting state, as well as the hibernation and aestivation, is considered.
Chap. III. Feeding. A most interesting chapter on the structures and
habits for the acquirement and assimilation of food in all stages and in
the diverse sections of the order, the bees, the wasps, the ants, the gall-
makers, the parasites, the wood-borers, the leaf-cutters, with sections _
on Trophallaxis, Myrmekophily, Gall-making, Honey-extracting, ete.
Chap. IV. Treats of Respiration and Circulation, with discussion of
special cases of these in the different stages, in the cocoon, in the case
of internal feeders, etc. Chap. V. The nervous system and sensation.
I'he sense of sight, orientation, the finding of prey both in the open
and concealed, the appreciation of temperature, the structure and uses
of the antennae, are all considered at length. Chap. VI. The special
habits of the solitary aculeate Hymenoptera and their relative position
in the order. Chap. VII. A similar consideration of the social Hymen-
tera; only a few pages are devoted to the ants, which have been so
ably and thoroughly dealt with by Forel and Wheeler. Chap. VIII.
The egg and oviposition. Chap. |X. Anxiety of the female for its off-
spring. This is a most interesting summary of the maternal prepara-
tions for the future generation, dealing in detail with all sections of the
order. Chap. X. Parasitism. Another fine chapter, which no-one
interested in the subject could afford to miss. It is a collection of the
facts of, perhaps, the most intricate relationships in the whole range
of natural history. This chapter contains a list of Kuropean bee-
parasites and their hosts. Chap. XI. The ordinary and special
incidents in the life of the Hymenoptera, with sections on slave-making,
the keeping of “ guests”’ by ants, polygyny, ete. Chap. XII. Sexual
relationship. Primary sexual characters, secondary sexual characters,
polymorphism, generation, parthenogenesis, pairing, protomdery, ete.
Chap. XIII. The various stages and conditions of individual develop-
ment, larvae, cocoons, pupae, etc. Chap. XIV. A few special items not
included in the previous chapters such as Hygiene, Mimicry, the
Strepsiptera, woodlice and other parasites. ‘I'he book concludes with
a Bibliography mostly of continental works. We note that HMmery,
Saunders and Donisthorpe’s works are omitted and also that Schultess.
Morice has only one reference given and that a very ancient one.
There is a capital index of 16 pages of 83 columns. This is
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printer’s part has been well done.—Hy.J.T.
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A Contribution to the Life-history of Senta ania Tausch, H. A. hl)
D.M., F.R.C.P., F.E.S. i : : 65
Some observations on Coccinellids and New Rhensclneas G. C. Leman, F.E.S. .. 66
Notes on Synanthedon formicaeformis, in 5. Hampshire, lm. Rasen M.A.,
The Variations and relationship of Coenonympha arcania ald C. buuisie plea
=satyrion, Roger Verity, M.D. (concluded) ry Wr ; 70
The Basses-Alpes in May-June, 1926, Liewt. E. B. Ashby, F.E.S. foaled iy 74
Note on the Antiquity of some Orthopterous Groups, Malcolm Burr, D.Sc., F.E.S. 75
Norzs on Contnecrinc.—The Engadine, H.J.T.; Hybernated P. c-album, P. Haig-
Thomas, F.E.S.: Micro-Lepidoptera, Lt. S. A. Jones; A Humorous
Experiment, G.C.L. .. a a : My: AG cM oe oh 77
Corrent Notes iN he oe es 3h re He oe fi se 78
Revinws na : ie se At ap nt Ba : oy ne 79
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NOTES ON THE SPANISH FORM OF HESPERIA CINARAE, 81
Notes on the Spanish form of Hesperia cinarae, Rbr.
By B. C. S. WARREN, F.E.S.
In the summer of 1926 Signor O. Querci collected a fine series of
H. cinarae in Spain, which fills a great blank in our knowledge of this
species. When I was writing the account of cinarae for my ‘‘ Mono-
graph of the Tribe Hesperiidi,” I was unable to find, or hear of any
Spanish specimens, other than the one in the Chapman collection which
I figured (l.c. pl. XLVIII. f. 3 and 5)., I noted at the same time
(p. 185) that this one Spanish specimen differed a good deal from all
eastern specimens, but of course as it was only a single example one could
not be sure that it was typical of the species in Spain. Signor Querei’s
captures have now given the required data. He and Signora Querci
between them captured over a hundred specimens, which all agreed
exactly with Dr. Chapman’s Tragacete specimen, and form a remarkable
contrast when compared with eastern cinarae. I have pleasure in
naming this fine southern subspecies after Signora Querci, for Signor
Querci tells me that the great proportion of his specimens were taken
by her between Valdecabras and Huelamo, when he was collecting
elsewhere.
Signora Querci first noticed the species on July 21st, a certain
number were taken in August, and three small specimens between
September lst and 5th. Signor Querci also took some specimens at
Tragacete from July 13th-15th. ‘These dates show thatthe flight period
of the species extends from mid-July to the end of August, or early
September.
S-sp. clorinda s-sp. nov.—Types in my collection, ¢ from
Tragacete (figured 7’rans, Hnt. Soc. Lond. Vol. 74. 1926., pl. XLVILI.
f.3and 5.) (T. A. Chapman), ? from Villacabras, Cuenca (C. Querci).
The characteristics which distinguish this race from the type
(eastern form) are: the bright yellow ground colour of the underside
of the hindwings (invariably a very dull ochre in eastern European, or
Asiatic specimens) and the clearly visible nervures of the same, outlined
in a heht yellow and in consequence contrasting sharply with the
ground colour. The bright shade of the ground colour also suffuses
the costa and apex of the forewings underside. On the upperside the
light markings of the hindwings are slightly buff, or cream in the ¢,
and of a deep, almost ochre shade in the ?@. On the whole the
colouring of s-sp. clorinda and the difference between it and cinarae
is an exactly similar development to that which distinguishes s-sp.
iberica from H. fritillun. In both cases the Spanish insects have
developed an altogether richer and warmer colouring than their eastern
and northern forms, and the effect is very much more striking than
the description would lead one to suppose. [It may be well to point
out here that Rambur’s name (einarae) though first used in his Maune
de UV Andalousie, pl. 8, f. 4..5., and described in his Cat. Syst. des Lép.
d. / Andl. (footnote p. 68), was applied to the eastern form and not tom
the Spanish, his deseription of the colour of the underside of the hind-
wing proves this clearly, but even if it did not do so his note in the
Faune—* mais je ne décris qu’en note celles qui sont étrangéres &
l’ Andalousie’’—definitely settles the point. He describes tessellum,
cacaliae, carlinae, cirsti (typical fritillum), centaureae, and alveolus only in
June 157TH, 1927.
82 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD.
foot notes, while continuing the practice in the Cat, Syst. he describes
melotis and cinarae also in footnotes.
Signor Querci notes that in his series of s-sp. clorinda the gs yary
in size only, and that the ? is much more variable both in size and
markings. The ?s as a rule are darker on the upperside than the gs,
owing to a dark superscaling partly obscuring the white markings of
the hindwings, and a tendency to reduction in size of the white spots
of the forewings. The underside of the bindwings in the @ is as a
rule a brighter yellow than in the g, and the white spots are often a
shining pure white never seen in the g. There also occurred several
specimens of both sexes in which the inner edge of the central spot of
the median band projects strongly towards the base of the wing (ab.
extensa ab. noy.), such specimens resembling H. numida to a certain
extent. The occurrence of this form of variation in cinarae is of con-
siderable interest, for itis more than probable that it isa variation which is
found in every species where the usual formation of the central spot
exhibits a straight inner edge. In all cases when this extension of the
central spot occurs, the affected specimen assumes a likeness, more or less
pronounced, to some other species. So far no specimen of this ab. bas
come to my notice among eastern cinarae.
The distribution of s-sp. clorinda is still uncertain. All the known
specimensso far come from Cuenca. Signor Querci however thinks that
he got some specimens in the Sierra of Albarracin the year before, but
as these specimens have all been sent to America and were not identi-
fied at the time he cannot now say with certainty if they were cinarae
or not.
Some Swiss Butterflies in 1925 and 1926.
By T. BAINBRIGGE FLETCHER, R.N., F.L.S., F.E.S., F.Z.S.
(Continued from page 57.)
1. Papilio podalirius, L.—Martigny: June 11th, 1926, common but
worn; June 26th, 1926, two, very fresh, apparently the second brocd.
Keclépens: June 22nd, 1926, one worn female. The Martigny specimens
presumably belong to the local Valais race valesiaca, Verity. Bérisal :
August 22nd, 1926, seen.
2. Papilio machaon, L.—Grimmialp: abundant from June 29th
to July 14th, 1925; the earlier specimens belonged to the Spring brood,
the first example of the second brood appearing on July 12th. Arolla:
a Jarva, found on August 21st, 1925, pupated on August 81st and
emerged (in a heated room) on March 29th, 1926; although this butterfly
is often found on hill-tops—in India it occurs at 15,000 feet in Kashmir—
Arolla seems to be an unusually high elevation to find it breeding.
Martigny: June 11th, 1926, freshly emerged. Les Avants: June 12th,
1926, freshly emerged. Bérisal: August Ist and 17th, 1926, seen.
4. Parnassius apollo, L.—Grimmialp: July 11th and 18th, 1925,
fairly common in the meadows bordering the Filderich stream.
Kvoléne: July 28th and 29th 1925, abundant on the rocky slopes
along the Mast side of the Valley. Arolla: August 8rd to 14th, 1925,
fairly common around and just above the Kurbaus, occurring on the
same ground as P delins bus less abundantly. Above Les Haudéres,
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at about 5,000 feet: September Ist, 1925, common but worn.
Villeneuve: September 14th, 1925, one, worn; June 2nd, 1926, one,
fresh. Hclépens: July 12th and 14th, 1926, fairly common in a
restricted area a little above the western end of the marsh; these
Specimens, very large and white, belong to the Jura race nivatus.
Bérisal : common along the road just below the Ganter Bridge and in
the Ganter-tal from July 21st to September Ist, 1926; around Dérisal
itself P. apollo seems decidedly scarce but it reappears again on the
Simplon Road at about 6,000 feet, where it occurred commonly
throughout August.
5. P. delius, Esp.—Grimmialp: July 14th and 16th, 1925, a few
examples some way up the Grimmi-tal; these are decidedly larger than
the Arolla specimens. Arolla: abundant from August 8rd to 31st, but
mostly worn by the latter date. Simplon Road: common on August
2nd, 1926 on the slopes just below the Kaltwasser Gallery, at about
6,400 feet; one on August 9th. 1926 at 6,000 feet, on the same ground
on which 7. apollo was occurring; generally speaking, however,
P. delius seems to occur here at a slightly higher elevation than
P. apollo.
6. P. mnemosyne, Linn.—Bérisal: abundant in the flowery
meadows just above the Hotel on July 18th, 1926, and occurred there
commonly until August lst. Also abundant a little way up the Ganter-
tal. My last specimen, a male in good condition, was taken a little
way above the Ganter Bridge, as late as August 16th.
7. Aporia crataeyi, Linn.—Grimuialp: common from July 1st to
11th, 1925. Martigny: June 11th, 1926, abundant, Beérisal: July
18th, 1926, common. Simplon Kulm: August 2nd, 1926. Simplon
Road, 6,000 feet: one worn male seen as late as August 26th.
8. Pieris brassicae, Linn.—Grimmialp: July lst to 13th, 1925,
common. Uetliberg: July 21st, one female Arolla: August 8rd to
31st, 1925, common, a fresh male taken on the latter date, which looks
as if more than one brood occurred here. The Arolla specimens are
very large. Tutt notes that he did not find it at Arolla. Blonay:
September 3rd and October 4th, 1925. Mont Pelerin: September 22nd,
1925, common but mostly worn. Martigny: June 11th and September
14th, 1926. Les Avants: June 21st, 1926. Simplon Road, 6,000 feet :
September 3rd, 1926, one very fresh female. Villeneuve: September
15th, 1925, a few about.
9. P. rapae, Linn.—Grimmialp: common from July Ist to 12th,
1925: males taken on July Ist and 4th are metra, whilst one on July
12th is rapae. Hvoléne: July 28th, 1925. Arolla: common through-
out August 1925, one at about 7,500 feet on August 28th. Montreux:
common around Montreux during September and October, 1925; it
seems to go on breeding as long as the weather is favourable, freshly
emerged specimens occurring as late as October 4th, on which date
females were ovipositing ; common again from May 28th to June 30th,
1926, andin September. Bérisal: afew, July18th, August 15th, 1926.
Simplon Road: one fresh female at 6,300 feet on August 13th, and”
fresh specimens at 6,000 feet on August 26th. Martigny: September
14th, 1926, abundant around the town.
10. P. manni.—Martigny: June 11th and 26th, 1926, September
8th, 1925, and September 14th, 1926, these later specimens belonging
to the summer form, rossiz, Stef. ‘l'his species is common under the
84 \ - PHE ENTOMOLOGIS®’S RECORD.
cliffs towards Vernayaz but does not seem to occur around Martigny
itself, where it is replaced by P. rapae.
11. P. napi, Linn.—Grimmialp: the form bryoniae was abundant
at the end of June and beginning of July, 1925. Uetliberg: July
19th and 21st, 1925. Montreux: common during September, 1925,
and worn specimens occurred as late as October 21st; again on May
28th,1926. Martigny: June 11th and 26th, 1926. Les Avants: June
12th and 21st, 1926. Eclépens: July 12th, 1926, common; one
female, with the markings almost entirely obsolete on hindwing
beneath, seems to be leovigilda, Friihst. Bérisal: bryoniae common
during the second half of July, 1926. Simplon Dorf: July 27th, 1926,
bryoniae. Simplon Kulm, 6,500 feet: August 2nd, 1926, a few
bryoniae.
14. Huchloe simplonia, Frr._-Montreux: May 28th, 1926, one
flavidior, \Vb., on the slope above the Clarens gas-works.
15. F. cardamines, L4.—Grimmialp: common from June 30th to
July 11th, 1926. Montreux: May 28th, 1926, three females.
Martigny: June 11th, 1926, one male. Les Avants: June 12th and
21st, 1926, many males but no females seen. Bérisal: July 18th,
1926, one female ; a male seen on July 26th.
17. Leucophasia sinapis, Linn.—Grimmialp: common at the
beginning of July, 1925. Uetliberg: July 19th and 21st, 1925,
common. Chillon: June Ist, 1926. Martigny, June 11th and 26th,
1926. Les Avants: June 12th and 21st, 1926, common, worn by the
latter date. Eclépens: July 1st, 12th and 14th, 1926, common.
Bérisal: common from July 18th, 1926, until well into August, often
seen on the hot, open road below the Ganter Bridge, an apparently
unlikely locality.
18. Colias palaeno, Linn.—Arolla: August 1st, 1925, several in
the wood around the Kurhaus; not seen again until August 29th,
when I took a fresh male. Simplon Kulm: one fresh female herrichi
with yellow spots on the black border, on August 2nd, 1926, and two
males on August 13th. Simplon Road, 6,000 feet: August 31st, one
female herrichi without any yellow spots on the black border of
forewing.
© 19. ©. phicomone, Esp.—Grimmialp: common and fresh from
June 80th to July 13th, 1925. Arolla: very abundant throughout the
whole of August, 1925; noted on August 27th as mostly worn and in
lessened numbers. Simplon Kulm: August 2nd and 13th, 1926,
literally in thousands; I noted on several occasions females in cép.
before their wings were dry. Bérisal: August 12th and 25th, a few;
this species occurs at least as low down as the tenth kilometre on the
Simplon Road (about 4,500 feet) but is not common at that elevation ;
about 6,000 feet seems to be the altitude at and above which it oceurs
really abundantly.
20. ©. hyale, Linn.—Grimmialp. June 23rd to July 13th, 1925,
common. Evoléne: July 28th, 1925. Arolla: August 6th, 1925, one
on the moraine just below the Arolla glacier; Tutt notes that his
Arolla specimens were very small, but my single example is a par-
ticularly large one. Montreux: abundant throughout September and
October, 1925; it seems to go on breeding very late, freshly-emerged
examples occurring as late as October 21st; on October 22nd I took
one aberration with black suffusion joining the discoidal spots of the
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upperside of the forewings to the apical black patches ; again on May
28th, 1926 (fresh females) and June 1st. Martigny: September 8th,
1925, some fresh, others very worn; June 11th and 26th, 1926. St.
Maurice: September 10th, 1925, one very fresh and another tattered.
Les Avants: June 12th, 1926. Bérisal: July 21st to September Ist,
1926, common.
21. ©. croceus, Fourcroy.—Common around Montreux during the
latter half of September and in October 1925, but far less common
than C. hyale ; in September, 1926, however, both species seemed to be
equally common ; a fresh female was taken on October 4th, 1925 ; one
worn helice on October 22nd, 1925. Bérisal: one very large female on
August 18th, 1926. Rothwald: one fresh female on August 13th, 1926.
22. Gonepteryx rhamni, Linn.—Uetlibere : July 19th and 21st,
1925, common and freshly emerged. Arolla: asolitary male on August
80th, 1925; this seems an unusually high elevation (6,800 feet) for
this species. Martigny: June 11th, 1926, several males seen, mostly
worn but one fairly fresh; June 26th, several battered males seen.
Montreux : common around Montreux during September and October,
1925.
24. Apatura iris, Linn.—Uetliberg: July 21st, 1925, one male
and one female, LEclépens: July 12th and 14th, 1926, five males
attracted to excrement in the clay-pits,
25. A. ilia, Schiff_—Eclépens; July 12th and 14th, 1926, fourteen
males, of which four are clytie, in the clay-pits and also amongst the
trees on the hill-side at the west end of the marsh.
26. Limenitisrivularis, Scop. (camilla, Schiff.).—Uetliberg: July
21st, 1925, one.
27. L. populi, Linn.—EKclépens: July 1st, 1926, one rather worn,
along the road going up the hill through the forest,
28. L. sibilla, Linn.—Kclépens: July 1st, 12th and 14th, 1926,
common, but worn on the later dates. Chillon: July 5th, 1926, two,
fresh.
30. Vanessa io, Linn.—Evoléne: July 28th and 29th, 1925, several,
fresh. Arolla: August 10th, 16th and 27th, fresh. Montreux,
common in September, 1925 and 1926, and October, 1925. Simplon
Road, 6,000 feet: August 31st, 1926, one. Beérisal: August 17th and
27th, 1926.
31. V. urticae, Linn.—Grimmialp: common at the end of June
and beginning of July, 1925, fresh specimens emerging from June 30th.
Arolla: August 21st, 1925, one only. This species was not seen at all
around Montreux in September and October 1925. Les Avants: June
12th, 1926, several fresh specimens seen; June 21st, 1926, worn.
Blonay: June 28th, 1926, fresh. Bérisal: common from August 18th,
1926; larve in numbers on nettle.
32. V. polychloros, Linn.—Blonay: September 8rd, 1925, one,
rather worn. EHelépens: July 14th, 1926, one, fresh, taken near the
railway station, and another seen, attracted to excrement in the clay-
pits.
33. V.antiopa, Linn.—Blonay : September 5th, 1925, one, around
a plum-tree with ripe fruit. Martigny: June 11th, 1926, two seen,
very worn.
34. Polygonia c-album, Linn.—Uetliberg: July 19th, 1925, one,
fresh ; July 21st, one, worn. Common around Montreux from Sep-
Pr
86 THE ENTOMOLOGISY’S RECORD.
tember 14th to October 11th, 1925. Martigny: June 11th, 1926.
Les Avants: June 12th, 1926.
86. Pyrameis atalanta, Linn.—Grimmialp: June 30th, a worn
female ovipositing on nettle. Arolla: August 18th, 1925, one, quite
fresh, near a bed of nettles alongside the Post Office. Blonay: Sep-
tember 9th, 1925, one. Villeneuve: October 8rd, 1925, one;
September 15th, 1926, one.
387. P. cardui, Linn,—Grimmialp: common on hill-tops from
June 28rd to July Ist, 1925, but all were rather worn and doubtless
immigrants, and after the latter date they seemed to disappear.
Montreux: June 7th, 1926, two, worn. Martigny: June 26th, 1926,
one seen, apparently in good condition. Caux: June 29th, 1926,
rather worn. Bérisal: July 18th, 1926, abundant but worn, a
migration flight in progress, the butterflies flying westwards over the
meadow above the Hotel; this, however, is not necessarily the direction
of the flight, as they were following the curve of the hillside;
Commander Forbes noticed this flight on the same day at Simplon
Kulm and told me that there the butterflies were flying South; by
timing individuals crossing a line of hillside about sixty yards in length
I estimated that from one hundred to one hundred and twenty indi-
viduals crossed this line in an hour, so that there must have been
thousands on the move. Fresh specimens appeared at Hérisal on
August 24th and September Ist. Common and fresh around Montreux
on September 9th and 10th, 1926. In 1925 I did not see a single
example around Montreux in September or October,
41. Melitaea aurinia, Rott., race merope, Pr.—Simplon Kulm:
August 18th, 1926, a few high up the hillside at about 6700 feet.
42. M. cinaia, Linn.—Martigny: June 11th, 1926, one, fresh,
43. M. phoebe, Knoch.—Kvoléne: July 29th, 1925, one worn
female. Bérisal: common from July 28rd, 1926, until the end of
August. A pupa, found suspended on a rock, produced a female on
September 5th.
44. M. didyna, Ochs.—Evoléne: July 29th, 1925, common.
Martigny : September 8th, 1925, one fresh male; June 26th, 1926,
one male. Eclépens: June 22nd, 1926, onefemale. Bérisal : common
throughout August, 1926.
45. M. berisali, Rubl.—Martigny: June 11th and 26th, 1926,
common ; September 8th, 1925, one fresh male of the second brood.
46. M. athalia, Rott.—Evoléne: July 29th, 1925, two. St.
Maurice: September 10th, 1925, two, fresh.
47. M. aurelia, Nick.—Kvoléne: July 28th and 29th, 1925,
common. Les Avants: June 12th, 1926, Villeneuve: June 20th,
1926.
49. M. parthenie, Bkh.—Blonay: September 15th, 1925, two,
worn; June 28th, 1926. Eclépens: June 22nd, July 1st and 12th,
1926, common. Bérisal: common from July 18th to end of August,
1926.
49 (part). M. varia, M.D.—Simplon Kulm: abundant and fairly
fresh on August 2nd, less common and getting over on August 18th,
1926.
50. M. dictynna, Ksp.—Grimmialp: quite fresh on June 30th,
1925, and occurred commonly until July 11th. Villeneuve: June
14th, 1926, just appearing; June 20th, common. Martigny: June
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SOME SWISS BUTTERFLIES. 87
26th, 1926, common. Helépens: July 12th, 1926. Simplon Dorf:
July 27th, 1926. Beérisal: July 18th to August 19th, 1926, a few
only.
53. Argynnis euphrosyne, Linn.—Grimmialp: common from June
23rd to July 13th, 1925, but all rather worn. Arolla: August 10th,
1925, one, rather worn; August 17th, one, very fresh. Villeneuve:
June 2nd, 1926, worn. Martigny: June 11th, 1926. Les Avants:
June 12th, 1926. Les Pleiades: June 24th, 1926. Bérisal: July
20th, 1926, in fair state. Simplon Dorf: July 27th, 1926. Simplon
Kulm: August 2nd, 1926, worn, silvery spots accentuated. Simplon
Road: August 26th, 1926.
54. A. pales, Schiff.—Arolla: abundant throughout August, 1925,
and variable. Simplon Kulm: August 2nd and 18th, 1926, abundant.
Bérisal: August 31st, 1926, a single specimen; surely a very low
elevation, at just 5,000 feet. Simplon Road, 6,000 feet: August 31st,
1926.
56. A. dia, Linn.—Common around Montreux in September, 1925
and 1926, but worn by the beginning of the month. One very worn
specimen was still on the wing on October 21st, 1925. St Maurice:
September 10th, 1925.
57. A. amathusia Esp.—Grimmialp: common from June 30th
to July 13th, 1925. LHvoléne: July 28th and 29th, 1925. Arolla:
common throughout August, worn by the end of the month.
Berisal: common from July 18th to the end of August, 1926. Simplon
Dorf: July 27th, 1926, common.
58. A. daphne, Schiff.—Martigny: June 26th, 1926, two, fresh.
59. A. ino, Rott.—Evoléne : July 28th, 1926, common.
Villeneuve: June 14th and 20th, 1926, common.
60. A. lathonia, Linn.—Arolla: August 18th, 1925, one, fresh ;
August 81st, one, worn. Montreux: common around Montreux in
September and October, 1925 ; a fresh brood appeared at the beginning
of September and another on October 21st. Blonay: June 28th, 1926,
one fresh male; September 10th, 1926. Lclepens: July 12th, 1926,
one fresh male. Bérisal: July 23rd, 1926, one worn female; August
5th, one fresh male, and others until September 4th. Simplon Road,
6,000 feet: August 31st, 1926.
61. A. aglaia, Linn.—Martigny: June 26th, 1926. Hclépens:
July 1st, 1926. Fayaux: July 18th, 1926. Bérisal: July 18th to
August 13th, 1926, fairly common. Simplon Dorf: July 27th, 1926.
Simplon Road, 6,000 feet: August 31st, 1926.
62. A. nivbe, Linn.—Grimmialp: July 8th to 13th, 1925, common.
Uetliberg: July 21st, 1925. Evoléne: July 28th and 29th, 1925.
Arolla: common throughout August, 1925, a fresh male as late as
August 31st. Fayaux: July 13th, 1926, one eris. Bérisal : common
throughout August, 1926. Simplon Kulm, 6,700 feet: August 13th,
1926, common. Simplon Road, 6,000 feet: August 26th, 1926,
common all along the road from Beérisal; at 6,000 feet eris was much
commoner than niobe but many intermediate forms occurred; August®
81st, very common, but nearly all worn, mostly eris; September 3rd,
abundant above 6,000 feet, mostly worn, a few in fair state, three or
four eris to one niobe. It was so abundant along this road that it
would be only a slight exaggeration to say that there was a niobe to
every thistle-flower along the roadside !
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- 68. A. eydippe (adippe), Linn.—Uetliberg: July 21st, 1926,
common. Blonay: September 28rd, 1925, one worn male; October
11th, 1925, one female; June 28th, 1926, one male. LEelépens: July
12th, 1926. Villeneuve: September 15th, 1926, two, worn, including
one cleodowa.
64. A. paphia, Linn.—Blonay : September 5th and 9th, 1925, a
few worn ; September 10th, 1926, a worn male and female in the same
place as in the previous year. Kclépens: July 1st and 14th, 1926.
Simplon Road above Bérisal, about 5.500 feet, one worn valesina on
September 8rd, 1926; this is an unusual beigbt for this species, as
Vorbrodt gives 1,200 metres as its extreme height at Airolo.
67. Melanaryia yalathea, Linn.—Evoléne: July 28th and 29th,
1925, common. LEKclépens: June 22nd, July 1st and 14th, 1926,
common. Blonay: June 28th, 1926, abundant, freshly emerged.
Chillon: July 5th, 1926. Fayaux: July 18th, 1926. Dérisal: abun-
dant along the road below the Ganter Bridge from July 21st to
September 4th, 1926, by which date it was, of course, very worn.
68. Hrebia epiphron, Knoch, form cassiope, Fb.—Arolla: August
12th, 1925, one.
69. . melampus, Fuessly.—Grimmialp: July 1st to 16th, 1925,
common. THvoléne: July 29th, 1925. Arolla: common throughout
August, 1925, often found in tbe evening sitting on grass-stenis in
little colonies. Bérisal: July 19th to end of August, 1926, common.
Simplon Dorf: July 27th, 1926. Simplon Kulm: August 2nd, 1926.
Simplon Road, 6000 feet: August 9th and 26th, 1926.
73. H. wnestra, Ratz.—Arolla: August 6th to 28tb, 1925, fairly
common, but usually only found singly. Bérisal: July 24th and
August 28rd, 1926, single specimens only, and anotber on September
8rd at about 5500 feet on the Simplon Road. Simplon Dorf: July
27th, 1926. Simplon Kulm, 6700 feet: August 18th, 1926.
74. Iv. pharte, Hb.—Grimmialp: July 8th, 1925, one only.
75. Hh. manto, Esp.—Grimmialp: July 15th and 16th, 1925;
perhaps overlooked before, but it seemed to be just appearing at the
very end of our stay.
76. KE. ceto, Hb.—Simplon Dorf: July 27th, 1926, a few in a
very restricted locality on the hill above the village. Bérisal: found
only in the Ganter-tal, where it occurred abundantly on July 24th,
1926 in good or fair condition, and I took one female with the spots
yellow. According to Wheeler, this species has a very brief flight,
restricted to the first three weeks of July, but in 1926, worn females
were on the wing up to August 25th.
77. E. medusa, Fb.—Les Avants: June 21st, 1926, one only.
Les Pleiades, June 24th and July 2nd, 1926, abundant, but getting
over on the latter date. Above Caux, 4000 feet: June 29th, 1926,
abundant and in good condition.
78. E. oeme, Hb.—Grimmialp: June 28rd to July 16th, 1926,
common.
79. J. stygne, Ochs.—Martigny : June 11th and 26th, 1926.
80. LH. evias, God.—Martigny : June 11th, 1926, fresh.
82. H. glacialis, Ksp.—Arolla: August 6th, 1925, on the moraine
below the Arolla glacier; rather worn.
84. F. goante, Esp.—Arolla: common throughout August, 1926.
Also common, but worn, along the road from Arolla to Les Haudéres
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on September Ist, 1925. Bérisal: common on the rocky sides of the
road below the Ganter Bridge from July 24th to September 4th, 1926.
Simplon Road, 6000 feet: common from August 9th to September srd,
1926 ; one specimen has small blind spots on the forewing.
86. FE. aethiops, Esp.—Grimmialp: July 4th, one, fresh, and
another on July 16th, 1925. Evoléne: July 28th and 29th, 1925,
fresh. Blonay: one (worn), on September 5th, and another (very
worn) on September 29th, 1925 ; one worn female on September 10th,
1926. Bérisal: a few just below the Ganter Bridge, between Aucust
6th and 18th, 1926, but not common. Simplon Road, 6000 feet :
August 26th and September 8rd, 1926, worn.
87. HB. euryale, sp.—Grimmialp: June 80th to July 14th, 1925,
common; some are large and scarcely separable from /’. livea.
Evoléne: July 28th and 29th, 1925. Arolla: August 5th to 18th,
1925, a few. Blonay: September 5th, 1925, two, worn. Berisal :
abundant along the roads from July 17th to September 4th, 1926.
Simplon Dorf: July 27th, 1926, abundant. Simplon Road, 6000
feet : abundant throughout August, its numbers diminishing towards
the end of the month; at the beginning of August it was in almost
incredible numbers, a dozen or more drinking at every damp patch by
the roadside, whilst I saw quite fifty settled on one small rock in the
afternoon sunshine; it occurs as high up the road as 6400 feet; one
specimen, taken on August 9th, has white blotches on the right fore-
wing and hindwing and on the left forewing.
88. fh. livea, Linn.—Grimmialp: July 1st to 14th, 1925, common.
Uetliberg: July 19th and 21st, 1925, common and unusually large.
Chillon: July 5th, 1926, two, just emerging. Fayaux: July 13th,
1926, common.
89. 7. lappona, Esp.—Simplon Kulm: August 2nd, 1926, common
at over 6700 feet up the hillside above the Hotel. Apparently over by
August 13th.
90. I. tyndarus, Esp.—Evoléne: July 28th, 1925, one, worn.
Arolla: abundant throughout August, 1925. Bérisa!: abundant from
July 18th to September 7th, 1926. Simplon Dorf: July 27th, 1926.
Simplon Kulm: August 2nd and 13th, 1926, abundant and found up
to 6700 feet. Simplon Road, 6000 feet: abundant throughout August
and up to September 3rd.
91. Oeneis aello, Hb.—Bérisal: July 26th, 1926, one worn female
on the eleventh kilometre, below the Ganter Bridge.
98. Satyrus alcyone, Schiff.—Martigny: September 8th, 1925,
one ; September 14th, 1926, a few worn females, one taken on a rotting
fallen pear. Bérisal: common on the tenth and eleventh kilometres
of the Simplon Road from July 28rd until the end of August but
mostly more or less worn after July. These specimens all belong
apparently to the form genava, Fruhst.
96. 8S. semele, Linn.—-Martigny: September 8th, 1925, a few worn
axamples ; September 14th, 1926, mostly worn but one female in good
state. Eclépens: July 14th, 1926, one male : apparently just appearing.
Bérisal : common from July 23rd to the end of August, 1926, along
the Simplon Road from the tenth kilometre to just ‘above Rothwald ;
the first female was taken on August 9th ; one male ab. caeca, Tutt, on
August 28rd.
98. 8S. statilinus, Hufn.—Martigny: September 8th, 1925, one
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male; September 14th, 1926, common at the foot of the Batiaz Tower
but mostly very worn, a few still in good state. These examples
apparently belong to the form onosandrus, Fruhst.
99. S. cordula, Fb.—Bérisal: common on the tenth and eleventh
kilometres of the Simplon Road from July 23rd to the end of August,
1926, but mostly worn after the end of July.
101. Pararge aegeria, Linn.—Uetliberg: July 19th, 1925, one,
worn. Blonay: September 9th, 1925, three, fairly fresh. Villeneuve:
October 3rd, 1925, one, very worn. Montreux: October 18th, 1925,
one large, fresh specimen taken in the Rue du Lac, Clarens.
Martigny: June 11th, 1926, one. Les Avants: June 21st, 1926, one
large female with pale-yellow spots. Eclépens: July 1st, 1926, one.
102. P. megera, Linn.— Martigny : September 8th, 1925, common;
June 11th, 1926, one fresh female ; September 14th, 1926, abundant,
nearly all very worn but one fresh male. St. Maurice: September 10th,
1925. Blonay: September 14th, 1925; September 23rd, 1925, one
fresh female. Villeneuve: October 8rd, 1925.
108. P. hiera, Fb.—Les Avants: June 12th and 21st, 1926.
According to the text-books, this is a common species, but this was
the only locality in which I came across it.
104. P. maera, Linn.—Grimmialp: common from June 23rd to
July 15th, 1925. LKvoléne: July 29th, 1925. Arolla: August 9th
and 14th, 1925, not common ; the second specimen was taken at about
7,500 feet. Martigny: September 8th, 1925, one worn female; June
llth and 26th, 1926, common. Common around Montreux in
September and October, 1925. Fayaux: July 13th, 1926, common.
Bérisal : common from July 20th to the beginning of September from
below the Ganter Bridge to over 6,000 feet on the Simplon Road.
105. P. achine, Scop.—Uetliberg: July 19th, 1925, one, worn.
Chillon: July 8rd and 5th, 1926. Eelépens: July 12th and 14th,
1926, worn. Blonay: July 13th, 1926, a few along edges of woods, in
good condition.
106. Aphantopus hyperantus, Linn.—Grimmialp: July 18th, 1925,
one, very small. Uetliberg: July 19th and 21st,common. Martigny:
June 11th, 1926, abundant. Villeneuve: June 14th and 20th, 1926.
Caux: June 29th, 1926. LHclépens: July 12th, 1926.
107. FE pinephele jurtina, Linn.—Grimmialp: July 1st to 13th,
1925, common. Evolene: July 29th, 1926. Common around Montreux
during September and the first week of October, 1925; the first male
appeared on June 7th, 1926. Villeneuve: June 20th, 1926. Eclépens:
June 22nd, July 1st and 12th, 1926. Martigny: June 26th, 1926, one
female. Bérisal: July 23rd to August 10th, 1926, not common but a
few scattered individuals along the road below Ganter Bridge, and on
August 29th a very battered female was basking with outspread wings
on the leaves of an ash-tree by the Hotel.
108. F. lycaon, Rott.—Evoléne: July 28th and 29th, 1926,
common, Bérisal: males common from July 21st, females from August
5th, until the first week in September, along the road below the Ganter
Bridge.
113. Coenonympha iphis, Schiff.—Blonay: June 28th, 1926. Caux:
June 29th, 1926, conmon. Fayaux: July 13th, 1926.
114. C. areania, Linn.—Uetliberg: July 21st, 1926, two.
Chillon: July 8rd and 5th, 1926. Eclépens: July 12th and 14th,
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1926, common and attracted to the flowers of Sambucus ebulus; these
Kclépens specimens apparently belong to the form saleviana, Fruhst.
115. C. satyrion, Esp.—Grimmialp: June 24th to July 12th,
1925, common. Arolla: common throughout Aueust, 1925. Les
Pleiades: July 2nd, 1926, race obscura, Riihl, common. Beérisal :
common from July 23rd to the end of August, 1926, and occurring up
the Simplon Road as far as the Kaltwasser Gallery (about 6,400 feet).
Simplon Dorf: July 27th, 1926, common.
116.) C. pamphilus, Linn.—Grimmialp: June 28rd to 29th, 1925,
common. Kvoléne: July 29th, 1925. Les Pleiades: September 6th,
1925; July 2nd, 1926. Common around Montreux in September,
1925, and again on June Ist, 1926. Martigny : September 8th, 1925.
Les Avanis: June 12th, 1926. [clépens: July 14th, 1926. Bérisal:
August 22nd and 24th, 1926, a few on the tenth kilometre, below the
Ganter Bridge; according to Vorbrodt, there is only one brood in the
Alps, but these specimens were quite fresh and evidently belong to a
second brood.
119. Nemeobius lucina, Linn.—Martigny: June 11th, 1926. Les
Avants: June 21st, 1926. Les Pleiades: June 24th, 1926. All rather
worn.
121. Vhecla w-album, Knoch.—Eclépens: July 12th and 14th,
1926, common on flowers of Sambucus ebulus.
122. 7. ilicis, Ksp.—eclépens: July 12th and 14th, 1926,
in some numbers with 7. w-album.
(To be concluded.)
Notes from the Cape Verde Islands.
By MALCOLM BURR, D.Sc., F.E.S.
The Cape Verde Islands are little visited by entomologists, though
Darwin’s account in the ‘‘ Voyage of the Beagle” is a classic. There
is, as a matter of fact, little to attract the naturalist, for they are of
astonishing sterility. But they are familiar enough to travellers, as
British boats on the lines to South Africa and South America pass
through them and often call at Sao Vincente, but seldom stop for more
than an hour. Many years ago, in 1891, [ passed through for the first
time, but was unable to go ashore, and had to be content with the splendid
sight of two sperm whales swimming up the channel between two
islands. In 1913] passed again and was particularly anxious to get
ashore, as my curiosity had been aroused by their original appearance ;
I had also noted that de Saussure had questioned the identity of a
species of Sphingonotus recorded from the islands and fresh material
was needed. I was told that the boat might stop for an hour only and
that it was not possible to go ashore. ‘Then I conspired with the ship’s
doctor, a most excellent man, capable of appreciating the interest of a
scientific problem: he introduced me to the chief engineer and over the
walnuts and the wine [| told the story of the misunderstood grasshopper.
My eloquence was rewarded, for the worthy Scot became quite interested
and the consequence was that he required two hours or more the next
morning for sundry minor repairs and I got a full hour ashore.
It was not much, however, for a collecting expedition, nor had I net
or killing-bottle available, nor even a drop of spirit; nothing but a
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small tube and my fingers; moreover, the Oedipodidae are nimble
creatures and difficult to catch at any time when stimulated to activity
by a hot sun. But I enlisted the services of half a dozen little nigger
boys and returned on board in triumph, with my tube crammed with
kicking and lively grasshoppers. I never had occasion to work them
out properly, but I remember that among them was a Sphingonotus
with no black fascia to the wing, which I took to be S. caerulans, the
commonest Kuropean species, one of the common red-winged Acrotylus
and also the pretty yellow-winged species, A. longipes, Charp., the latter
an African insect which extends its range to the extreme south of
Europe.
On neither of the return journeys did we stop, and so, when early
in April I called on a Portugese vessel, | was very glad that we had more
business to do, discharging cargo and taking coal, than do the British
boats. We arrived in the evening of April 6th and I hurried ashore
with my companion, Pavel Stepanoviteh Nazaroff, the well-known
Russian traveller and naturalist. 1t was a race with darkness and the
darkness won; it was impossible to do anything and we returned on
board crestfallen in inky blackness. We were due to sail during the
night, but owing to some contretemps fortunate for us, we were still in
port the next morning and Pavel Stepanovitch and I were able to spend
several hours ashore collecting Orthoptera.
This was at the island of Sao Vincente, which owes its importance
to its geographical situation, for it is asubmarine cable station and also
a very important coaling station and the harbour, which is the drowned-
out crater of the old volcano, is always full of shipping. The island
consists of very rugged lavas with a sharp and jagged outline against the
sky and is absolutely sterile. In the little town there are a few wind-
stricken palms and other trees planted in soil imported at great cost. ‘To
the south and east of the town there is a flat expanse of the detritus of
the rocks and beyond that a range of dunes; this part is exposed to the
prevailing wind from the north east which was blowing that day with
uncomfortable vigour. ‘The sands are loose and shifting but the
Portugese have planted tamarisks and otber shrubs to hold them, with
considerable success. We wandered among the tamarisks and moved a
fair number of Oedipodidae, their coloured wings flashing prettily in the
sun when they flitted from spot to spot, but they harmonise so closely
with the sand and voleanic ashes that they are difficult to see when
settled. ‘he wind was so strong that it was far from easy to catch
them with a heavy sweep-net and I was glad to enlist the spontaneous
services of an inquisitive and jolly little nigger boy aged about ten, who
crawled on his tummy and stalked them with considerable success. We
never saw a glimpse of a red wing; the commonest was the Acrotylus
longipes, Charp. This is a pretty little creature distributed widely in
Africa and occurring in a few localities in the extreme south of Europe ;
I had made its acquaintance in the ‘T'ranscaucasus and in Macedonia.
There were two species of Sphingonotus, with pale blue wings, one with
no black mark on the wings, like the common south-Kuropean 8.
caerulans, L., but, in fact an apparently local form of S. rubescens, W1k.,
from the deserts of N. Africa, and one with a well-defined black fascia,
which must be S. canariensis of Saussure, the species which I wanted
but failed to get in 1913. But these species are extremely interesting,
as they are very imperfectly known.
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There was little other sign of insect-life save a few flies and consid-
erable numbers of a small buff Micro-Lepidopteron; it was hopeless
to try to catch and preserve specimens of so delicate a creature, armed
as | was only with a heavy sweep-net, in that gale, and [| gave up the
attempt.
At one spot in the midst of the tamarisk grove we came upon a
round, flat open space, like an eastern threshing-floor; that it could
not be, as there is nothing there to thresh. Pavel Stepanovitch
remarked that in the Kirghiz deserts he had seen similar phenomena
where there is much salt in the soil, as he thoughtlessly jabbed holes in
the level surface with his stick. At that moment I caught sight of a
_ small round hole lined with tin, and it dawned upon me that we were
trespassing upon golf links! There is a colony of British at the
submarine cable station and as an inevitable consequence, the links. I
trust they will pardon the inquisitive but perfectly innocent damage
which we did to their dark brown “ green.”
The forbidding reddish-brown mountains all round have a depressing
effect, as they appear to be lifeless and probably are. A more cheerful
effect is produced by the relief of a garden where the Portugese
authorities, at great expense, have laid out a nursery, and also a hard
tennis-court, evidently attributable to the staff of the cable. Here there
were numbers of a small bird like a sparrow, while Egyptian vultures
soared overhead, sharing with a sooty-necked crow the duties of public
scavenger. We sat and rested under the precarious shade of a big
tamarind and watched our little black-faced colleague chew great
quantities of the bitter fruit, to the great benefit, no doubt, of his
internal arrangements.
Pavel Stepanovitch made the interesting observation that similar
effects can be brought about from totally different materials when
conditions are similiar. His first exclamation was that he felt himself
back in Turkestan; there were the same naked, uninviting mountains,
the dusty sand dunes, wind-battered tamarisks, the hazy sky. The only
obvious difference is that there the people are Mahommedans, Sarts
and Kirghiz, while here they are mulattoes and negroes. But the
deserts of Turkestan are perhaps the most remote spots on earth from
any sea, and the sand is derived from palaeozoic rocks, while here we
have an oceanic island with sand formed from the lavas of young,
though extinct, voleanoes; the tamarisks are of a different species,
African instead of Asiatic, but the general resemblance is extraordinarily
close.
There are two advantages in being on board a Portugese vessel. In
the first place, having local business, they stay longer and make an
excursion ashore easier; in the second place they call at other islands
where British vessels seldom or never put in. Two hours run from Sao
Vincente brought us to Sao Thiago. We arrived early in the morning
and anchored in a good-sized bay with cliffs of lava enclosing it; it
was interesting to see one flow of lava resting on a horizontal surface
of pale yellow sand, 30 there must have been at least two distinct
periods of volcanic activity with a considerable interval between them.
Sao Thiago is less lofty than Sao Vincente and enjoys greater moisture 5
there is more vegetation ; tufts of rank grass can be seen on the cliffs,
whereas those of the other island are absolutely barren. The town of
Praia, the administrative and ecclesiastical centre of the archipelago, is
94 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’ S RECORD.
situated on a substantial elevation in the middle of the bay, with an
extensive palm grove at the foot. The town is pleasantly laid out, well
kept, with well-groomed gardens, where the presence of really green
turf is evidence of the greater rainfall. Moreover, at Sao Martini,
about half an hour’s drive into the interior, there are coffee plantations
producing the best berry of any of Portugal’s numerous colonies.
Unfortunately we were not able to hire a horse and trap, as it was
market day and everyone was busy, and so were compelled to abandon
our idea of visiting the plantations and to confine our ambitions to a
walk outside the town.
After passing another palm-grove and a negro village of stone buts
roofed with palm leaves we came upon an open arid plain with a few
scattered mimosa trees; the ground consisted only of stones and dust,
but there was little animal life there apart from the few goats resting in the
shade of the trees. Acrotylus lonyipes, Charp., is the common grass-
hopper of the island, as it is at Sao Vincente, and we moved great
numbers of them, their bright yellow wings flashing prettily in the
sunshine. They are active and it was extremely difficult in that stiff
breeze to catch any with the sweep-net. We followed up the dry bed
of a desiccated watercourse, where an occasional blue flash revealed the
presence of some Sphingonotus. I was able to catch one only; it was
S. rubescens, W1k., subsp.
So far we had seen no difference in the fauna between the two
islands, but soon we flushed a bird that was obviously our first really
Kthiopian representative. It was Halcyon leucocephala rv. acteon, and a
very beautiful creature voo; its brilliant deep blue wings and tail glitter
brightly in the sunshine, contrasting with the pale grey or dirty white
bead and shoulders. As it perched on the top of a mimosa it showed
the red-brown belly, and its profile was exactly that of a kingfisher.
The beak is long, straight and sharp; it was orange-yellow in the first
specimen we saw, but in another, which we took for the cockbird, it
was bright red and disproportionately long, giving it a clumsy appear-
ance. ‘There was nothing Kuropean about him as, indeed, it occurs
only on Sio Thiago and on the Brava of the Cape Verde Islands. I
turned over many stones in tbe hopes of finding some earwigs, but
found nothing but quantities of a small black and a small brown beetle.
Presently a tiny flash of pink caught my eye and | picked up a pair
of Pyrgomorpha sp., a representative of an African genus that extends
its range into the southern extremities of Kurope. I also found a
nymph, so the season here begins several months earlier than in the
Mediterranean countries. ‘Then | saw another kind of grasshopper,
very numerous, but so active that | despaired of taking one. I caught
a glimpse of pink, and thought it must be a Caloptenus; it was too
slender for the common European species, but might be a local form,
corresponding to the C. vulcanius of the Canary Islands; then I saw
that the red was on the posterior femora, so | thought it must be an
Epacromia. At length patience was rewarded and | took one, to find
to my surprise that it was a male, too big for either of the genera
mentioned. It wasa Catantops, C. avillaris, Thnbg., a typically African
species already known from the Cape Verde Islands, but not existing
in the Canaries. Altogether | took two males and a female. | saw
also another large grasshopper, as big as Anacridium aegyptiun, but
they sat on the highest twigs of the mimosas and the mass of tough,
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woody branches and sharp strong thorns made it impossible to catch
them; when disturbed they flew off actively to a distant tree.
Although the Catantops occurred frequently enough on the stony hillsides
generally, they seemed to prefer the neighbourhood of the mimosas, on
which they frequently settled and probably found their nourishment.
It is quite likely that search would reveal other species and in all
probability they would have African affinities; very likely representa-
tives of other groups are to be found in the vegetation of the plantation
area, though these would be more likely to be imported species. | do
not know the age of the islands but they are certainly quite young,
geologically speaking ; as volcanoes they are dead, though the island
of Fogo is not quite extinct and has been in eruption during the past
hundred years, as in 1891 a ship’s captain told me that many years
previously he had seen it showing signs of activity. They
must be younger than the Canaries, although Teneriffe is still a quite
active volcano, for the latter have developed a very rich and highly
characteristic fauna and flora, It is doubtful whether there are any
endemic species peculiar to the Cape Verdes, which must have been
colonised from the African coast and by insects and other smaller
creatures imported in plants. ‘The islands are essentially part of Africa ;
the brown, naked rocks are quite un-Kuropean in appearance and the
presence of lofty palms and the mulattoes and often very good-iooking
creoles of Sao Vincente and the negroes of Sao Thiago speak for
themselves.
The birds, too, are mostly African ; apart from a swift and the kites
hawking over the waters of the bay, the other birds we saw are not
European ; the gorgeous kingfisher is certainly HMthiopian. and so must
be the very variegated sparrow, quite different from any of our
Huropean species of Passer; the crows, too, seem different, with sooty
hoods like jackdaws, and a raven we saw was smaller than ours, with
weaker beak, and a greyish spot on the side of the neck.
It was tantalising not to be able to explore further, nor to visit the
interesting island of Brava, but we must be thankful for mercies received
and treasure the modest collection that we were able to make.
Nomenclature. Errors II.
Norr :—My colleague, W. H. T. Tams, points out that I am spell-
ing the name of the author of the Sys. Nat. wrongly. That is so, vide
title page of the Sys.
adippe.—ecydippe. See Report of the British National Committee
on Entomological Nomenclature, Trans. Hint. Soc. Lond, (1915) and
Ent. Record, XXVIIL., p. 148 (1916). Many entomologists seem still
ignorant of this authoritative decision. Frohawk’s book uses adippe !
latona: latonia: lathona.— Linnaeus described this species under the
name lathonia, Sys. Nat., ed. X. p. 481 (1758).
artemis: aurinea.—aurinia. Rottemburg, Naturforscher, VI., 5
(1775) in considering Hufnagel’s V'abellen (1765) appeals to the work of
Geoffroy, Histoire abregée, I1., 45 (1764). Both authors mix a number
of species under the name cinaia, but the latter perceives that there are
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Notes of Collecting in Spain in 1925-26.
By Dr. E. ROMEI.
Hesperia armoricanus, Ob.—This species which is so common and
widespread in Italy, Catalonia and Asturias according to the data of
our captures, and in most European countries according to Warren’s
references (Mon. Tribe Hesp., p. 123), is instead very scarce in Serrania
de Cuenca (Castile) where we collected some specimens from August
18th to September 12th, 1926.
The late emerging form from Cuenca, which I propose to distinguish
by the name of petheri strikes one for its frail appearance. Above, less
development of white spots in forewings and light areas in hindwings.
Fringes hardly divided by darker nervures. Beneath, ground colour
hindwings considerably lighter fulvous than in any Spanish specimen
from Aragon and Asturias. Forewings ground colour much resembling
Italian tersa, Vrty., being without rich brown shade of other Spanish
races, so that white spots are in much less contrast.
Generally much nearer to Italian than other Spanish forms but
always smaller expanse specially owing to the reduced size of the body.
Types in Wm. Pether’s collection in London.
Adopaea lineola, O.—As in the case of H. armoricanus x. petheri,
Romei, the lineola we have found near Jerez del Marquesado, in Sierra
Nevada, strikes one for its frail build. It is no doubt the smallest
known race of this species: males 21-28 mm., females 23-25 mm.
Beside its dwarf size lineola from Sierra Nevada at the level of 3600ft,
which I propose to name hemmingi, differs from the forms of other
localities by the male androconia which are almost as sharply outlined
as in semicolon, St. In the female sex the anal zone of the upperside of
the hindwings is still less suffused with brown scaling than in the
lightest females from Aragon and Castile. The fringes are whiter than
in any other form of lineola.
A. lineola varies in a graduated way from Northern Spain to
Northern Africa. In Catalonia we have collected a big race in which
the hindwings are largely suffused with brown scales; in Aragon and
Castile two forms are mixed, one resembles the Catalan race, the other
is a transition to Andalusian hemmingi; this last 1s a transition to the
African semicolon, which is a true subspecies of Central Huropean
lineola and to which hemming?t is an allied race.
Aricia medon, Hiifn.— In the Mut. Rec., 1925, p. 25, we spoke about
the phenomenon of two different forms living together at Albarracin.
In 1925 we collected the dull form (medon)in alpine surroundings
of Catalonia and the bright form (cramert) in the Catalan plain. During
a trip which I made to Moncayo mass (Aragon) I collected medon at
high level and crameri a little lower. Last year, in Serrania of Cuenca
we have caught about 400 medon and 200 cramera living quite at the
same spot and at the same time; the two forms might be easily
distinguished even looking at specimens on the wing. Sexual
dimorphism is remarkable in medon from Cuenea, while in cramert of
the same spot males and females are identical on both sides.
In Andalusia we have met only with crameri with some individuals
very like the true crameri from Canary Is. We have made some trips
up to 7000ft. attempting to get medon but we have not found it
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although this insect does live certainly in Sierra Nevada according to
Rambur and Oberthiir’s data.
Ayriades thetis, Rott. —It seems to be very scarce in Spain. » We
have collected a few specimens in Catalonia and Aragon, but they have
not attracted our attention, being similar to the Italian ones.
In Serrania of Cuenea thetis began to emerge late in August; it is
a frail insect, its body is small the shape of the wings is rounded.
Above it resembles the smallest specimens of the Italian summer brood,
which Verity named etrusca, the fringes are sharply divided by black
dashes in a more prominent way than in etrusca and also along the
hindwings.
Along the margin of the hindwings there are often a series of black
spots as in the African punctifera, Ob.; the form rubro-maculata, Ob.,
olten occurs. This Castilian race of thetis, which I propose to name
langhami, is nothing else than a dwarf race* of the Algerian punetifera
to which it is like also on underside which is brown with big and
prominent black dots tidily outlined by a pure white ring; the orange
lunules are yellowish and rather small. In my set there is an aberrant
female in which the lunules, above, are exceptionally extensive and
confluent. This abnormal female may perbaps be referred to the
individual form aifacariensis, Ribbé.
The names used by Tutt and Muschamp to designate the small
specimens which may occur everywhere can not be applied to this race
from Central Spain which shows several peculiar characters and, save
the constantly small size, is similar to the African thetis.
Agriades coridon, Poda.—In the Hnt. Rec., 1925, p. 87, we explained
our views about this insect. Now I have to confirm thatalsoin Serrania
de Cuenca distinct forms are living together and that we have found
not even one transitional specimen. At Cuenca, during the months of
July and August, 1926, we have seen on the wings an immense number
of the thetis-like insect which Verity named caelestissima. Mr, Turner
writes us that the individuals from Cuenca are exactly like Dr.
Chapman’s lilacina and should be called bytbhatname. In the big puzzle
of coridon I will not enter in to the litigious question of nomenclature ;
T will give my data. Lord Rothschild, Mr. Bethune-Baker and Mr.
Hemming bave so big a set of coridon- like specimens from Cuenca that
I trust that in a short time British entomologists will speak about the
problem.
Besides several thousand specimens of the small and showy form
(caelestissima or lilacina ?) we have collected several hundred individuals
of the large and grey form which we named (/.R., 1.c.), arrayonensis
and 55 individuals of the most curidon type-like form, which look equal
to the other 19 specimens we collected, in 1924, ‘at ‘Tramacastilla
(Aragon) and which, in our paper, we named caerulescens.
The three different forms are well represented at Cuenca by a
suitable number of specimens of each. We have separated the males
with no difficulty while for the female sex we have some doubtful speci-
mens. One must bear in mind however that it is not an easy task to
separate the female sex of coridon and thetis in the spots where these
two species live together.
In a trip to Montarco, 10 miles from Madrid, we made together
*Why name it then ?—E.A.C.
NOTES OF COLLECTING IN SPAIN. f 129
with Prof. Candido Bolivar of the University of Madrid, we collected
the most interesting race of the subspecies (or species ?) albicans. The
coridon-like form from Montarco is much smaller than albicans from
Andalusia of which I have specimens caught by Mr. René Oberthir at
Huejar, in 1870, and at Sierra de Alfakar, in 1879, they are also
smaller than the smallest arragonensis from Sierra de Albarragin and
Serrania de Cuenca. The brown pattern of the upperside is very
reduced, the blue shading above is almost missing so that the fresh male
looks to be a white butterfly. The female upperside is most character-
istic because the brown tinge instead of being uniform, is interrupted
by light and whitish spaces between the nervures.
The underside is clearer than in any other race and the orange
_lunules are very pale and reduced. I propose to name bolivari the
race we have collected at Montarco early in July, 1926.
In 1925 we made a big collecting of coridon-like forms in Catalonia.
In Catalan plain (Vallvidrera, S. Pere de Vilamajor, S. Antony and
Llinas) an insect hispana-like emerges almost without interruption
from May to October; some small specimens of the summer emergence
are very like Herrich-Schaffer’s type figure of hispana.
On the Eastern side of Montseny mass, 2000 to 4000ft., we met
with true coridon only ; at Seva, on the western side of Montseny and at
Ribas, in Low Cerdanya we found coridon and hispana living together
just as it occurs above Florence (Hnt. Rec., 1917, p. 241). Atleast we
have separated, at first glance, both sexes of two different Agriades.
In High Cerdanya (Puigmal Molina) we have found a small form
of coridon and no hispana.
We are always interested in the coridon enigma, but we have to
recognise that we have not been able to reach a definite result.
I can summarise the data as follow, from my knowledge: In the
high Apennines of Central Italy, Pyrenees mass and Cantabrian Mts,
we have collected a pale-blue coridon-like insect sibyllina, Vrty., minute-
punctata, Vrty., and asturiensis, Sag., which seems to be intermediate
between true coridon and the thetis-like form of Central Spain but more
allied to this last by the small size and the underside general pattern.
On the mountains above Florence, in Montseny mass (Catalonia)
and in alpine surrounding in Aragon and Castile we have caught the
coridon-type-like form (apennina, Z. in Italy), narbunensis, Vrty., on
Monitseny and what I name caerulescens in Central Spain.
Inthe Tuscan and Catalan plains we found nothing else than hispana,
H.8., while at middle altitude we meet hispana and coridon living
together during summer.
In alpine surroundings of Sierra Alta (Aragon) only the thetis-like
form (caelestissima, Vrty. ?, lilaciua, Tutt ?); Ido not know how to name
that magnificient insect.
Near Albarracin (Aragon) the large and grey form which we named
arragonensts, Gerh.
At Tramacastilla and in the environs of Cuenca, coridon, arragonensis
and caelestissima live together and they are three quite different insects.
I conclude by saying that it is impossible that the above forms
strikingly dissimilar and often living together can belong to the same
species. I trust that in the future this will be proved either by dissec-
tion of genitalia or by breeding from ova. We regret not to be able
to make these investigations.
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SSCIENTIFIC NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. ‘
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Fuient or Nepris Lucia, 'as.—In a garden here I have had the —
pleasure of watching the flight of this species for the last three weeks.
There are several bushes of a cultivated Spiraea belonging to the ©
japonica section and near some bushes of Deutzia; these latter are in
flower. While the sun is out N. lucilla flutters continuously around
and over these bushes, generally keeping from two to five feet above
the ground. Ihave not seen it sail like a Limenitis but 16 often
spreads its wings out, as if about to settle and bask in the sun, then on
it goes without alighting. While on the wing it appears a purely *
black and white butterfly and it is only on the very rare occasions
when it settles that one sees the beautiful colour of the underside. —
Like other butterflies when they meet they will fly around each other —
but they soon return to their up and down flight around and over the
bushes. ‘They appeared in the fourth week in May and were still on
the wing when we left Levico in the fourth week of June. I presume
that this species is single-brooded and that emergence is spread over @
long period from May to the end of July. This garden lies about :
1700 feet above sea-level and the weather was very hot.—A.rFrep Sica
(F.H.8.), Levico, June, 1927.
Fatt or a Burrerrry.—On June 15th, 1927, I was sitting under
a lime about 6 p.m. and noticed a 2 Pieris brassicae flying under the
same tree above my head. It was evidently seeking a resting place for
the night. After preliminary fluttering she selected a faded group of
flowers. What exactly happened then I did not see but the next
moment, straight down came the butterfly, with wings closed, still
clinging to the flowers. She fell thus about six feet then opened her
wings and flew off and the flowers fell at my feet. I may remind the
reader that the blossoms of the lime are attached by their common
stalk to the middle of a comparatively long and wide bract. In this
instance the bract came down with the flowers and acted as a
parachute, or rather kept, the whole combination in a perpendicular
state, as the weight of the flowers plus that of the butterfly made the
fall rapid. ‘The closed wings of the insect appeared to cut the air like
a knife and it may have required a special effort on the butterfly’s part
to open her wings during the fall. I have before seen butterflies settle
on a flower that fell off with their weight, but then the insect
immediately spread its wings and flew off and did not experience a real
fall as that I have attempted to describe.—Atrrep Sicu (F.E.S.),
Levico. 1927.
2) URRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES.
Cuance or Avpress—Will all correspondents please note that
after September 24th, my new permanent address will be
‘“ Laremar,” West Drive, Cueam (near Surron, Surrey).
It is possible that the October number may be late as the marking
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reference if necessary.—Hy. J. Turner.
We understand that early in the new year there will be started a
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supplement to Vol. I. of Seitz “ Palaearctic Rhopalocera.’’ In the 18
years since Vol |. was published there has accumulated a vast amount
of additional matter which needs collecting and collating.
The Fourth International Congress of Entomology, Ithaca, U.S.A.,
August, 1928. The Organising Committee is collecting funds for the
assistance of a certain number of Kuropean members of the Congress
who cannot afford the expenses of the voyage and who do not receive
a grant from other sources. Hntomologists, who wish to attend the
Congress and to take advantage of this scheme are asked to apply
for further particulars as early as possible to Dr. Karl Jordan, Zoological
Museum, Tring (Herts.).—K.J.
We are pleased to announce that arrangements have been made
‘to publish as a supplement in October, November and Decem-
ber a revision of “‘ A Brief Review of the Indigenous Coccidae of the
British Islands,” by E. Krnest Green, F'.1.8., F.Z.5., a past President
of the Entomological Society of London. By kind permission of the
Council of the South London Entomological Society, in whose
Proceedings the paper originally appeared, we shall be able to repro-
duce the four plates containing Mr. Green’s excellent drawings of
details. The supplement on British Noctuae will also be continued as
the MS. is completed.
In the passing of G. C. Champion (1851-1927) the students of
Coleoptera lose one of the most accomplished devotees of the order,
and the Entomological Society one of its oldest members. He joined
that body in 1871 and the following year helped to found the popular
South London Society, of which at the time of his death he was an
honorary member. On several occasions he was Vice-President of the
Entomological Society and for 80 years he was responsible for the
Library. Nearly four years he spent in the wilds of Central America
collecting and studying the Fauna of that then practically unknown
area, under the auspices of Col. Godman and Mr. Salvin who eventually
published the famous Biologia Centrali Americana from the results of
the various expeditions organised by them. On his return Champion
was largely in charge of the material collected and did much in
furthering the publication of the Biologia, subsequently joining the
staff of the British Museum, when the collections were deposited at
South Kensington. He was a keen collector of British Coleoptera and
contributed regularly from 1868 to the Ent. Mo. Mag., eventually
joining the staff of its editors and finally, in 1910, became its editor-
in-chief. He was A.L.S. (Associate of the Linnean Society) a coveted
and honourable distinction, bestowed only upon a few, for meritorious
service in the pursuit of natural science. He was a great personal
friend of the late Dr. T. A. Chapman and often they spent continental
holidays together, the results of which were published in the 7Z'rans.
Ent. Soc. Lond. and other periodicals. Lately he had interested him-
self particularly in the Coleoptera of the Himalayas, the material being
sent to him by his son, Mr. H. G. Champion.—H.J.T.
It is still impossible under the pressure on our limited space to give
Reports of Societies, even assummaries. A great number of most inter-
esting matters are dealt with at both the Entomological Society of
London and at the South London Entomological Society of which we
can only wish we could publish accounts. The latter Society has just
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issued its Annual Proceedings for 1926 of 170 pages with eleven plates.
We hope to issue a review later on.
A Meeting of the Entomological Club was held at ‘‘ Hodeslea,”’
Eastbourne, on June 25th, 1927, Mr. Robert Adkin in the chair.
Members present—Mr. Robert Adkin, Mr. H. Donisthorpe, Professor
E. B. Poulton, Mr. H. Willoughby-Ellis, Mr. W. J. Kaye. Visitors
present—Dr. E. A. Cockayne, Capt. N. D. Riley, Mr. W. H. T. Tams,
Mr. E. Step, Mr. A. E. Tonge. The guests arrived during the morning
and were received by Mr. and Mrs, Adkin at ‘ Hodeslea,” when
luncheon was served. In the afternoon the party visited the Downs ~
and Beachy Head. The Club Meeting took place at 6 o’clock, when
supper was served. The host extended his invitation for the week-end
to those who were able to remain and accommodation was provided at
«“ Hodeslea.”” On Sunday morning, an Entomological excursion by
motor-car was made to Vert Woods near Laughton. The weather was
rather dull and cold and few insects were collected, Acidalia immorata,
however, was flying in its old haunts. During the afternoon and
evening Mr. Adkin’s large collections of British Lepidoptera and his
Library were inspected with much pleasure. On Monday morning the »
party dispersed after having had a most enjoyable Meeting.
It might be interesting to Readers to know that the Entomological
Club Collections have now been secured and are deposited temporarily
in the Meeting Room of the Entomological Society of London, 41,
Queen’s Gate, and are available for inspection to Fellows of the
Entomological Society of London by applying for the keys to the
Assistant Librarian.—H.W-E.
Two Meetings of the Entomological Club were held at Oxford, July
16th-18th at the invitation of Professor Poulton and Dr. Harry
Eltringham. Members present—Professor E. B. Poulton, Dr.
Eltringham, Messrs. Robt. Adkin, H. Donisthorpe, H. Willoughby-
Ellis, Jas. K. Collin, W. J. Kaye. Visitors present—Dr. Hugh Scott,
Dr. C. A. Wiggins, Dr. Hanitsch, Prof. E. G. Waters, Commander J.
J. Walker, Dr. F. A. Dixey, Messrs. E. 8. Goodrich, L. W. Grensted,
W. A. Lamborn, W. H. T. Tams, H. J. Turner, H. L. Andrewes, H.
J. Wainwright. On Saturday afternoon the guests met at the Museum
where they were received by Professor Poulton and Dr. Harry
Eltringham and during a pleasant Entomological Conversazione tea was
dispensed by Mrs. Poulton. In the evening a Meeting of the Club was
held at Jesus College, Professor EK. B. Poulton in the Chair. Accomo-
dation was provided at Wadham College for Members and guests who
were able to stay the week-end. On Sunday morning various
Entomological excursions were organised. The weather was somewhat
dull but several interesting captures were made. After luncheon at
Wadham College, the annual picnic was arranged in boats on the River
Cherwell, and as the weather greatly improved, a very enjoyable time
was spent. In the evening a Meeting of the Entomological Club was
held at Wadham College, Dr. Harry Eltringham in the chair, after
which the usual business meeting of the Club was conducted. The
guests retired at a late hour after spending a very enjoyable evening.
Several of the party remained to work at the Museum during Monday
morning and the whole party dispersed before luncheon.—H.W-E.
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CONTENTS
Sao Thomé and Principé, Malcolm Burr, D.Se., F.E.S. oe oe oe 4
Miscellaneous Notes from Argentina VIII., K. J. Hayward, F.E.S. ue ae 120
Zygaenae, Grypocera and Rhopalocera of the Cottian Alps, R. Verity, M.D. (cont.) 129
Notes on Collecting in Spain in, 1925-26, Dr. E. Romei ae 2 old a va
Scimntiric Nores.—Flight of Neptis lucilla, 4. Sich, F.E.S.; Fall of a Butterfly, :
TRG RN SA ed alot eo OE MR eel n't. a
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Field Notes from Angola.
By MALCOLM BURR, D.Sc., F.E.S.
I. Loanpa. First Ivpresstons.
Our boat, the good ship “ Nyassa,” once German but now
Portuguese, put in at Loanda, the capital of the Portuguese colony of
Angola, on April 19th, 1927, and we were able to get a couple of days
ashore and make excursions to the high ground outside the town.
Loanda is one of the older cities of Africa, and the houses are
substantially built in the Portuguese style, with upstair rooms opening
on to a balcony that surrounds the patio; I had hoped that the strong
illumination and the flowers in this courtyard would attract insects,
but was disappointed, though at the same time relieved to find no need
for applied entomology in the bedrooms.
The country outside is a gently undulating, green plain, my first
view of the characteristic scenery of the great savannahs of Africa.
The scattered and bushy trees gave the impression of an English park,
but, of course, the few Huphorbias and the numerous baobabs gave a
distinctive appearance. The latter tree, Adamsonia digitalis, looks like
gigantic seakale; the smooth bulbous trunk is very pale, and in the
distance looks white, while the top is tufty and green; from several of
them there hung great pods, about a foot long, green, heavy, hard and
woody, and, I believe, quite useless. The bark is valuable for paper-
making.
The grass is rank and long; we are approaching the end of the
rainy season and everything is fresh, green and moist. Orthoptera are
numerous but about half the specimens are not yet mature. Two or
three species similar to Stenobothrus are common; one is a very elegant
little fellow, somewhat recalling Omocestus rufipes, with pale white band
on antennae and black markings on the body, and about the
commonest; another prominent fellow is big for this group, pale buff
in colour, like some south European forms of Ch. pulvinatus, with
distinctive orange posterior tibiae and orange-red lining to posterior
femora. One of my first captures was a handsome Phaneropterid of
the size of an Acrometopa, but quite different; the elytra are rounded
at the tips and have wide and even reticulation in the male, evidently
forming a fine sounding-board; the ovipositor is gently curved and
long for this group. A small Phaneroptera, probably Ph. nana, was
common in the grass. Other species with a familiar appearance were
a grey Hpacromia, in appearance and habits resembling the common
E. strepens, dashing vigorously to light in the town and even on the
ship at some considerable distance from the shore; it is of a grey
colour, with no red. Another good-looking Truxalid is Paracinema
tricolor, or something very like it; it is an African species that extends
its range to the southern extremities of Europe. A small Truxalid
with ensiform antennae recalled Ochrilidia, while one of the
commonest was, to my eye and memory, indistinguishable from dAcrida
turrita ; a female came clumsily dashing to light in the town in the
evening.
The Oedipodidae were feebly represented in this grass country; I
found one or two of what seems to be an Aerotylus with pale blue
wings, and one handsome fellow, with pronotum keeled and ribbed and
Ocrozer 15TH, 1927.
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134 THK KNLOMOLOGIST’S RECORD.
acute posteriorly, with wings crimson at the base and a well-marked
black fascia.
There was little stridulation, perhaps owing to the lowering sky,
sprinkling drizzle and feel of thunder in the air, which usually
encourages some Locustids to song, but not the Acridians who prefer
the sunshine. However I heard one note that seemed reminiscent of
Chorthippus parallelus and traced it down to a blade of grass which
seemed somewhat thicker about the middle. This thickening was a
brownish grasshopper of extreme elongation (probably, a Mesopsis sp.),
the head and ensiform antennae were that of Acrida, and the last
abdominal segment is produced into a long point, as in immature
Acrida; the colour is greyish brown and the wings are smoky and
considerably shorter than the body; its appearance closely resembles
Acrida but the legs are short, including the hinder pair, and there is a
small compressed tubercle on the prosternum suggestive of Acridid
and not Truxalid affinities. I took two males and a female and also a
larva which is pale green.
In the Acridians, two big locusts, Cyrtacanthacris, one pair of a
marbled and banded grey uniform; the spines of the posterior tibiae
are striking, being white, then bright red and then tipped with black;
the other species is mainly green, banded with black and yellow; in
this cxse the spines of the posterior tibiae are tipped with black.
Another Acridian with a flattened head and pronotum looked like a fully-
winged Podismid, but the strangest of all was a species recalling
Paracaloptenis, with wings shorter than the body and pronotum banded
with black and pale; this was not very numerous and I took only a
couple of females and a single male; it is the latter which is remarkable
owing to the very unusual form of the antennae, in which eight of the
segments have a triangular flattened lobe, increasing in size to @
Maximum and then rapidly reducing ; the effect is that the antennae
are strongly crenate, a phenomenon I have not before seen in the
Orthoptera.
The Conocephalids were represented by two, or perhaps ieee
species of Xiphidtwn; one, which was the commonest, recalls our X.
dorsale with its abbreviated wings, but the apex of the abdomen is
bright orange, making it rather conspicuous in the grass; it seems to
bethesame species that I took at Principéand Sao Thomé ; [associate with
it a female with fully developed wings and elytra and, for this genus,
a moderately long ovipositor. Another species, also fairly common,
was greyish, with a relatively short ovipositor.
Crickets were in evidence towards dusk, and their chirping
resounded, but I was not able to see any; I heard notes distinctive of
Gryllus and of Gryllotalpa, but the only Gryllids I saw or took were a
few Occanthus just like our familiar south European O. pellucens.
Of Blattids I saw but two, a yellowish brown fellow, apparently a
Phyllodromiid ; if so, it was living up to its name for I found it when
sweeping thick shrubs covered with creepers like bryony, and a whole
flock of white butterflies, marbled witb green underneath, were playing
up and down by it and occasionally settling.
Mantids were represented by two species resembling Ameles, one
with bluntly pointed eyes and fully developed wings, the other with
rounded eyes and elytra reduced to mere rudimentary flaps, so that at
first I took it for a larva; adult specimens were not by any means
FIELD NOTES FROM ANGOLA. 135
numerous, but I took a pair of Hmpusa; these quaint creatures are fully
developed as early as May in the south of Europe, while the Mantids
proper do not reach maturity till the late summer. I saw one
immature green one, seemingly Mantis.
‘While picking up the Hmpusa among long grass, with a few dead
twigs around, I was delighted to see one of the thinnest of the twigs
move; I touched it and it froze; it was a Phasmid of extreme tenuity
and delicacy which would certainly have escaped my eye if it had
remained motionless.
In two afternoons I had taken twenty-five species of Orthoptera,
not a very large number when we think of the wealth of the Ethiopian
fauna. What struck me most was the absence of any species of
strikingly exotic form; the slender Phasmid of course must be a
typically African species, and very likely has a restricted range, but we
have Phasmids, and very thin ones too, in southern Europe. The
grasshopper with the crenate antennae was strange too, but apart from
this feature, it had nothing very foreign in its appearance. The derida,
Stenobothrus, Hpacromia, Phaneropteraand some of the Xiphidiwm all had
a very homely appearance; the big Phaneroptera, it is true, is a
distinctive form, but no more exotic in appearance than our 4 crometopa,
and the Ameles and Hmpusa are quite familiar to collectors in the
Mediterranean. The most exotic species were the two handsome
Cyrtacanthacris.
But if the Orthoptera did not strike one as being a foreign
assemblage, other orders did. Butterflies were not very numerous but
were different from anything | have seen in any part of Europe; they
seemed vaguely familiar from museums and collections, but the various
Pierids, including an out-size orange-tip, and some Vanessids gave
quite an exotic touch to the scene, as did a strange beetle, with elytra
flattened and strongly broadened out, brown, tipped with black, so that
it looked like a moth’when settled on a shrub; I have seen him in
collections but he provided the longed-for local colour, as did a pretty and
delicate Homopteron pale grey speckled with black, with light blue
wings and long extended snout. But I have no doubt we shall get
plenty of local colour before long and may even get tired of it. At
Loanda it was chiefly supplied by the niggers and the baobabs.
It was interesting to note that a fairly extensive insect fauna flew
on board to light; we were moored at a good distance from the shore,
quite a mile, but the vessel was brilliantly illuminated. Numerous
creatures were attracted and sat prominently on the fresh white paint.
Of Orthoptera, an Hpacromia did not surpise me, as I was accustomed
to him as a night-flyer in the Caucasus, though one hardly associates
the grasshoppers with nocturnal habits: the Locustids, of course, are
largely vespertine or nocturnal, but I hardly expected to find Xiphidium
addicted to long night flights, yet I took three on the boat after dark ;
all three were females, closely resembling X. fuscwm, and this fact
further encourages me to think that it is the female of the brachypterous
male with the orange-tipped abdomen. Other visitors were a number
of small ants with wings and a few Pentatomid and other Rhynchota,
but no beetles nor Hymenoptera.
In a previous letter I have referred to the brilliant pale blue
coloration of the interior, and usually concealed, surface of the trochan-
ters of the fore-limbs in Mantis. The same phenomenon is fairly
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general in the praying-insects; in the HKmpusa taken at Loanda they
are red near the base, dotted with white spots; these die out as the red
passes into deep indigo, shading off to black, but with the same bright
blue of the hedge-sparrow tint showing clearly at the sides.
There were few insects around the bright lamps in the streets and
gardens in the town at night, nor was there as much stridulation as
I expected; there was one that to my ear was indistinguishable
from the chirp of our familiar Locusta viridissima and on two trees
another very distinctive and to me quite unfamiliar voice; it was a
single metallic note, repeated at short periodic intervals; it was
impossible to locate the performer at night in thick foliage of a big
tree, and doubtless a very active customer. I hope that with luck and
patience I may be able to identify it and run it down to the musician
which may be a familiar creature, but in this the element of chance
plays a great part; it took me many years to identify the common
Phaneroptera of Europe with its gentle, and to many people inaudible,
tss tss tss, to be heard in south Europe among the trees on dark still
evenings.
Of other forms of animal life we did not see much; small lizards
were common among the grass and Pavel Stepanovich saw a large
Agama. Birds were not numerous; the commonest was a crow with
white neck and belly, but on one tree we watched a bird that looked
like a whitethroat but as big as a thrush feeding its young as big as
itself. Gulls with black backs and wings hawked around the boat, and
a flock of cranes or storks was visible through the fog of an advancing
storm.
(To be continued.)
Notes of Collecting in Spain in 1925-26.
By Dr. E. ROMEI.
(Concluded from page 129.)
Srrymon spins, Schiff.—The race from Serrania of Cuenca, during
the month of July, can be referred to bo/illi, Sag., the white lines and
red spots of the underside being as reduced in extent as in bofilli from
Aragon. However the form /ynceus, F., is more frequently found at
Cuenca than at Albarracin.
Amongst the spini we have collected at Cuenca, we have found two
aberrations which are now in Wm. Pether’s collection in London.
Mr. Pether has sent me the description of them which I may publish
here :
ab. fusca-extensa (subtus), Pether. Blue patch entirely suffused
with black scales.
ab. albo-extensa (subtus), Pether. White lines crossing hind-
wings developed outward into broad band, extending beyond the
antemarginal black and orange spots and blue patch at usual angle.
In this beautiful aberration the white band of the underside of the
hindwings is more extensive and the red spots more reduced than in
the ab. albosparsa as it is figured by Oberthur (Lep. comp. IV, f. 401).
Zeryntuia RumiINA, L.—In May, 1925, I collected a few specimens at
high level, 4000 up to 5000ft., in Sierra Nevada. Expanse under
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average 38-42 mm. Ground colour between type and castiliana, Ruhl,
much deeper than medesicaste, Ill. Black spots prominently red
centered as in medesicaste but differing from this form in having all
black markings well developed ; this black being well powdered with
scales of a clearer white rather than of a blueish tint as in the type
form.
Red submarginal spots in hind-wings differ from castiliana in being
completely backed by a solid black band. Castiliana have this black
band distinctly divided by yellow of ground colour each side of black
veins.
Quoting the specimens of the type series in Wm. Pether’s collection,
the tone of red marking varies as follows ; very deep (Nos. 559 and
690), shaded with lighter (No. 691), much paler (No. 558).
I propose to distinguish by the name ‘of petheri this form from
alpine surroundings in Sierra Nevada. ‘Two specimens sent to Mr.
Pether by Bang-Haas as nana (a commercial name) ex Malaga exactly
agree with pethert except in the smaller development, in size, of the
red spots.
Cornonympua IpHioipEs, St.—Dr. Otto Bang-Haas has notified to us
that the type specimen in Staudinger’s collection was caught at S.
Idelfonso. Jt seems that the nymotypical form is widespread all over
Castile, because our iphioides from Cuenca do not differ from those of
Western Castile we have seen in the Museum of Madrid.
Instead the specimens of tiphioides we collected in July, 1924, near
Sierra Alta (Teruel) in Aragon, differ in a constant way from the
Castilian ones. Not even one of my large series from Aragon is like
any individual from Castile so that I propose to name pearsoni the
subspecies from Sierra Alta above Orihuela del Tremedal.
Pearsoni is always much smaller than nymotypical ¢phioides ; the
whole underside is thickly suffused with brown scaling, the yellow
ring around the ocelli is thinner, the silver line of the underside of the
hind-wings, which is well marked in Castilian specimens is either faint
or missing in Aragon. The ocelli of the underside of the hindwings
are not so regularly disposed as in nymotypical iphioides ; they are set
almost as in amynthus, Poda (1761) =c7phis, S.V. (1775).
According to my opinion pearsont from Aragon is a transition
between tphivides from Castile and amynthus from Central Europe.
Erepia zapatert, Ob.—I have long series from Aragon and Castile.
The Castilian specimens look duller than those from Aragon, but I
think this is due to the fact that the individuals from Sierra Alta
were caught in 1924 while the ones from the Province of Cuenca are
two years younger, having been collected in 1926.
K. zapateri is very abundant in the Serrania of Cuenca at the level
of 4200ft., above Tragacete ; lower, at the level of about 3500ft., the
species is much scarcer and the apical ocelli have a tendency to be
reduced. This tendency is so marked that in some extreme forms the
lowest spot of the left wing is missing. I propose to name castiliana
the most common form of the Serrania of Cuenca at low altitude in
which the apical spots are either very small or partially missing.
Among the individuals from Sierra Alta, whence came Oberthur’s
type, we observe the opposite tendency. Mr. Pether has sent me the
description of some aberrations.
ab. excessa, Pether.—First and second apical spot followed by a
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third which is smaller, not white centered. On underside there is also
an extra (blind) black spot corresponding in position with fourth above.
ab. lutescens, Pether.—Brownish-yellow area in _ fore-wings
replaced by very pale buff above and below.
ab. argenteopunctata, Pether.—Area of black apical spots
replaced by translucent silvery, faintly tinged with black and white
centered, above and below.
Hreparcuia uippotyrr, Esp.—l propose to name williamsi the true
subspecies we have caught at Puerto del Lobo, 5000ft., in Sierra
Nevada. The underside of the hindwings, which is of an almost
uniform tinge in Eastern forms, is instead nicely variegated in
Andalusia. Every Andalusian specimen differs in a striking way both
from Russian types and other Oriental forms. Esper and Hubner
figured Eastern individuals, while Herrich-Schiiffer represents williamst
perfectly.
A Note on a curious aberration of Euxoa segetis, Schiff. (segetum),
and on the so-called ab. subgothica of Euxoa tritici, L.
By W. PARKINSON CURTIS, F.E.S.
In the summer of 1907 I was collecting for an extended period in the
Isle of Purbeck, and on July 1st I captured a very pale specimen (No.
18523 coll. mihi) of Euwxoa segetis, Schiff. I bad on the preceding June
captured an /vuaoa in company with Muaoa cinerea ab. tephrina, Stgr.,
which in the field I had referred to Muaoa cinerea, without hesitation.
That specimen has occupied several positions in my collection since
and I have always felt very uneasy about its determination. On the
division of the spoils for the 1907 season No. 18523 fell to my brother’s
share and the other No. 5810 coll. mihi, to mine. Having recently
acquired the whole of my brother’s collection, which included fine series
of many of the British Agrotids I have been incorporating that collection
with my own. This led me toa further examination of No, 5310 and to
still further dissatisfaction with its determination. A few days ago I
had an opportunity of submitting it to a joint critical examination by
Mr. W. H. T. Tams and myself and to a careful comparison with the
species of Huvoa in the National Collection. We both came to the
conclusion that it was an undersized and unusually sparsely marked
specimen of F. segetis, Schiff, a g with a curious feature of great
reduction in the development of the reniform stigma. There is no
specimen as small, nor any exactly like it in the National Collection, but
there are two that beara resemblance. Oneaspecimen from Cyprus and
the other, which, but for its larger size, is strikingly like it from a
Central Asiatic locality ex the Leech Collection. Herein lies the special
interest of No. 18523, which is normal in size, but is as near true ab.
pallida, Stgr. as possible and pallida is a Central Asiatic form. It
piques my curiosity that the only two notable abs. of Muwoa seyetis,
which have fallen to my hunting should have been Central Asiatic in
facies and captured within a couple of hundred yards of one another
with an interval of three weeks between the captures. What were the
weather conditions in the winter of 1906/1907 that produced a Central
Asiatic appearance in two insects in Southern England? The slight
NOTE ON A CURIOUS ABERRATION. 139
notes that I have of that winter shew, that in Poole Harbour there was
a rather unusual abundance in the Autumn of waders and wildfowl,
which we usually associate with cold weatber further North, and my
recollection is that sport was rather unusually good that winter.
Recollection is not much to go on, but in this case it is sharpened by
the fact that in the October, whilst out in my gunning punt, I got the
full benefit of the recoil of a heavy stanchion gun in the mouth owing
to slack gun ropes, and the damage to my front teeth was visible and
permanent. Anyone with a like experience will bear me out in the
statement, that a smaek in the mouth of that description is a vivid
memory aid superior even to Pelmanism. ‘The following is a short
description of the specimen and as it is probably not likely to be
repeated it is not worth while giving it a name.
Sex g. Exp. 32 mm. measured from the right apex to the centre
of the thorax and out to the left apex. Normal segetis measured thus
run from 42 to46 mm. The general tone of colour is greyish putty-
colour much the tone that would be obtained by mixing raw sienna,
lampblack and yellow ochre with a good body of flake white. The
thoracic hairs are a colder tone, the abdomen matches the fore-wings.
The pectus is clothed with nearly white hairs. The forewings are a
little glossy and but for a few sparse and ill-defined sepia patches of
scaling of very smallarea devoid of any marking basad from the antemedial
line. The antemedial line is well-defined, but is visually not double.
It is just possible with a lens to trace a few scales here and there
proximad shewing the course of the normal limit of the inside of the
double line.
What there is of the claviform is entirely detached from the
antemedial line, it consists of a very small area barely darker than the
ground with just a sensation of a definition in sepia scales above and
below. ‘The orbicular is very small, only just marked and has part of
an annulus distad consisting of 6 single sepia scales at wide intervals.
There is no central shade. There is a dark mark on the costa
above and just before the reniform followed by a second where the
postmedial line rises; the reniform consists of a small almost circular
area of the ground colour barely enclosed ; with a small patch of sepia
brown scales above and a larger pateh below, but the whole marking is
quite insignificant.
The postmedial is a single festooned line following the normal
course, of sepia brown scales sharply defined but exceedingly tenuous.
The apical dark marks on the costa are scarcely visible.
Of the subterminal line and the terminal shade there is barely a
trace, but the usual interneural black incisions on the termen are
quite conspicuous.
The hindwings are bluish pearly white very slightly semihyaline
and glossy; the principal nervures are defined in very pale brown.
The termen is defined with a very narrow but firm brown line and there
are a few brown scales in the apical area. ‘The specimen is a little
worn.
Locality Purbeck, Dorset. Date 8.V1.1907. Captor W. Parkinson
Curtis.
The same cause, viz., the said acquisition of Agrotids above referred to
led me to consider the named aberrations of Huwxoa tritici, L., and also
led me to the conclusion that the very general use of ab. subgothica,
140 THK ENTOMOLOGIST’ S RECORD.
Haw., as a name for any aberration of tritici is wrong and here I must
confess that I lay the blame for the confusion on the late J. W. Tutt.
My conclusions in the matter leave me a little bewildered as to why
such an able and careful worker should have ensnared himself and
others by an a priort argument, when he could have had access to
Haworth’s type.
I am presuming that the specimen standing in the National
Collection as Haworth’s type is in fact the type and I know not the
slightest reason for supposing that the authenticity of that specimen
leaves any room for doubt at all.
Haworth’s type is the North American species jaculifera, Gn. It is
very unlike tritici, and it is not an HKuaoa but a Feltia as Sir G. F.
Hampson has treated it in his Cat, Phal. Lep. IV., p. 845. The only
thing that I do disagree with Sir G. F. Hampson over in his
treatment of the species is that he states ‘the British localities of the
older authors are erroneous.’
The older authors very circumstantially state the place of capture
and captor of at least one specimen and why should they not be believed ?
Other American insects occur in this country. I have seen lanais
archippus on the wing once at Swanage and once at Poole Quay at a
time when Canadian and American hay was being freely brought into
the port.
At the time W. Raddon is stated to have captured subgothica at
Barnstaple the West of England ports had a thriving trade with
America and large fleets of small wind jammers— Poole had for example.
Accidental importation was a very likely possibility and it is not long
ago that an American Amatid was caught flying down the High Street
of Marlborough, Wilts. Personally I am a little chary of contradicting
others about locality records without exceptionally good grounds for it.
I have had too many of my own records contradicted by some
pragmatical pundit and have had the trouble of ramming an incontro-
vertible fact down a reluctant throat.
Staudinger in his Cat. Pal. Lep. I., p. 150, No. 1875 gives the
synonymy :—
subgothica, Haw., Lep. Brit., p. 224.
As above stated this is subgothica=jaculifera the American species.
subgothica, Steph., II., p. 126, pl. 22 £.3.
This figure and the letterpress leave not the slightest doubt that the
insect referred to is Haworth’s species.
subgothica, Tutt., Brit. Noct., I1., p. 48.
This from Tutt’s own letterpress refers to an ab. of tritici since he
specificially argues that the early authors bad confounded the ab. with
which he was dealing with the American species which he suggests
should be subgothica, Grote, and states the American authors to be in
error.
subgothica, Barr., Brit. Lep., U1. sp. 851, pl. 1838, £.2.
sarrett’s plate and letterpress both relate to true subgothica, Haw.,
and he states that latterly British authors have ignored this species as
British.
Humphreys and Westwood, British Moths, L., p. 128, pl. 24, fig. 1,
is true subgothica and they quote Haworth; Curtis; Stephens /.c.; and
Wood’s Indea Hnt., pl. 9, f. 149. The copy of Humphreys and
Westwood, which is before me is a very good figure, but a little pale ;
NOTE ON SOME SOUTH AFRICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 141
it however shows the rosy tone of jaculifera, which has the rich
ruddiness of Agrotis ditrapezium or A. brunnea. All these authors save
Tutt dwell on the high development of the claviform, or as the early
authors called it, the teliform stigma. As a matter of fact in true
subgothica the interneural space between vein 1 and the cell and vein 2 is
almost wholly dark (at any rate basad) cut across very strikingly by
the pale basal and antemedial lines. I have seen many tritici, (my
own series is over a 100), and I have never seen one with anything
approaching this marking. Culot’s figure referred to below certainly
does not show it.
Hampson, op. cit., pp. 293 and 345 ignores all reference to Tutt’s
British Noctuae.
Unfortunately the result of Tutt’s treatment of subgothica, Haw.,
is that Staudinger, in his turn following Tutt, has led Culot astray in
his beautiful work Vol. 1, p. 77, pl. 12, fig. 11 pl. 12, fig. 13, where he
figures specimens of tritict as subgothica, Haw., which they are not, nor
are they at all like it.
The only way to get the matter cleared for the future is to give a
new name to suwbgothica, Tutt, and I propose the name pseudogothica for
it, since until it is rechristened, the aberration of tritici will still be
sometimes called svbgothica and the confusion will grow.
The synonymy will then stand as follows—I’. subyothica, Haw. ;
Curtis ; Steph; Wood; Humphrey and Westwood ; Hampson ;
Packd.; Saunders.=jaculifera, Gn.; Smith.=tricosa, Lintner. F. tritict
ab. psendogothica, mihi.=subgothica, Tutt ; Stdgr.; Culot.
A Note on some South African Lepidoptera of Economic Importance
with especial reference to the Eastern Transvaal.
By J. SNEYD TAYLOR, M.A., D.I.C. (Cotton Entomologist, Union Department
of Agriculture.)
Among the minor pests of cotton in the Eastern Transvaal are a number
of leaf-feeding Lepidopterous larvae. Perhaps the most important of
these is Cosmophila auragotides, Hbn. (formerly erosa, Hbn.) (Noctuidae),
which occasionally does serious damage as in the season 1925-26,
when in one field, which came under the writer's notice, practically
every plant was defoliated. At the same time hundreds of adults were
to be seen on the wing, flying about in the sunshine. The larva of
C. aurayoides, feeds openly upon the leaves and pupation takes place
in a loose cocoon among the leaves or bracts. In April and May 1926,
larvae of this species were heavily parasitised by a species of Chalcid,
the adults of which emerged from the pupae of the former. A species
of Tachinid was also obtained. These parasites probably account for
the comparative scarcity of C. awragoides during the past season, 1926-
27.
Another leaf-feeder is Xanthodes graellsi, Feisth., which has been
more plentiful during the past season than C. aurayoides. As is the
case with the latter species the larva of X. graellsi, feeds openly upon
the leaves and is easily recognised by the presence of a large and
conspicuous scarlet spot on the anal end. Pupation takes place in an
earthern cocoon in the soil and during the summer months the adult
142 THER ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD.
emerges after a pupal period of about eighteen days. Hibernation
takes place in the larval stage within the cocoon in the soil. Larvae
which entered the soil in May 1926, formed cocoons but did not
pupate until the middle of the Folowhtip October. The adults emerged
early in November. A species of Tachinid was obtained from larvae
of X. graellsi this year.
Larvae of Laphygma exigua, Hbn. (Noctuidae), were found by the
writer attacking cotton foliage in January of this year. This species
has previously been recorded on cotton in S. Africa and Egypt. The
larvae were found forming thin webs on the undersides of the leaves
and then eating their way through, with the exception of the upper
epidermis, which in many cases was left intact. Pupation took place
in the earth and adults emerged after about eighteen days. The
larvae occurred in scattered patches throughout the field in which they
were found, and in these patches the damage due to them was consider-
able. One larva was found with six small ova adhering to its dorsal
surface; on the following day these hatched and the resulting larvae
proceeded to eat their way into the host. By the evening of the next
day they had spun cocoons under the remains of their host and six
days later adults of a small species of Braconid emerged. L. eaiqua
is commonly known as the “ Lesser Army Worm” and, as the name
implies, the larvae are gregarious in habit.
The larva of Tarache nitidula, F. (Noctuidae), also attacks the
leaves of cotton, but has not been found in large numbers by the
writer. In behaviour this species is very similar to \. graedisi and, as
with the latter, pupation takes place in the soil.
A pest which wrought great havoc towards the close of the season
just over was the “Army” or ‘‘ Mystery Worm,” the larva of Laphygma
exempta, Walk. This species derives its common name from its gregar-
ious nature; the larvae occur in enormous numbers and may be seen
on the field for miles at a stretch, eating their way through the grass
and leaving bare ground behind them. Outbreaks occur every few
years and there was a severe one during the past season. As well as
grasses, various cereal crops are attacked such as maize, caffir-corn,
oats, wheat, millet and teff. At the beginning of March numerous
adults were seen on the wing. These were quickly succeeded by the
appearance of legions of the larvae on the field. Many fields of young
maize were stripped bare. Cotton was not attacked. Experimental
plots of cotton alongside others of millet which were eaten out were
left untouched as were also plots of cow-peas. Volounter cotton plants
in maize fields where the maize was all devoured were also left
unscathed. A subsequent outbreak occurred but on a smaller scale.
The larvae of this generation were found to be heavily parasitised and
two species of Ichneumonidae have been obtained from them up to date.
Larvae of L. exigua, the ‘* Lesser Army Worm,” are often mistaken
for those of L. exempta, owing to their somewhat similar habits. The
species are easily distinguished, however, by means of their mandibles ;
those of the latter are but slightly indented, while the mandibles of
L. exiyua are sharply toothed.
The control measures advocated for ‘* Army Worm ”’ are scattering
poison bait in front of the advancing larvae, or ploughing two or three
furrows across the line of advance and heavily baiting them.
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NOTE ON SOME SOUTH AFRICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 143
The “ Army Worm” combined with the recent prolonged drought
has rendered the problem of winter food for cattle a very serious one.
Of Citrus pests there are several belonging to the Lepidoptera, the
most important of which is Agryroploce leucotreta, Meyr. | Knarmonia
batrachopa, Meyr. (I.)|, (Tortricidae), the “ False Codling Moth.” As
well as in the Union this species also occurs in Rhodesia and in various
parts of Central, East and West Africa (I1.).
Navel oranges are the most susceptible to attack but other varieties
of Citrus also suffer. In addition to citrus the larva of A. lencotreta
is found in the fruits of guava, pomegranate, apricot, peach, plum,
persimmon, olive, walnut and oak, as well as in a number of wild
fruits (II.). The larva has also been recorded as attacking cotton
bolls in Nigeria and Uganda, but there is, as yet, no record otf it as a
cotton pest in South Africa, although it will readily feed upon cotton
bolls in captivity. Attacked fruit becomes mouldy and rotten, spores
being enabled to enter by means of the larval burrows. Heys are laid
upon the fruit and on hatching the young larva makes its way in,
frequently at the navel end of the orange. Usually only one larva
occurs in a single fruit, although two are sometimes found. When
full fed the larva leaves the orange and constructs an earthen cocoon
upon the soil surface. Occasionally the cocoon is formed within the
fruit. The larva may remain as such within the cocoon for nearly
three weeks before pupation takes place, after which it may bea month
before the adult emerges (II.). From some larvae placed out of doors
in tins containing earth during May of this year adults were obtained
after periods of from twenty-eight to forty-one days. There are three
generations during the season, which somewhat overlap one another
and hibernation takes place as a pupa (II.). The adult is an incon-
spicuous moth and is not often seen during the day.
Apart from the usual clean cultural methods and picking up of all
dropped fruits and burying them, baiting experiments for the control
of the adult are being carried out. These consist of (1) foliage bait, a
treacle (or sugar) and arsenical mixture applied to the leaves of the
trees by means of a hand syringe, (2) bunch bait, bunches of Kucalyp-
tus or other twigs dipped in the same mixture and suspended in the
trees, and (3) fermented and unfermented treacle and arsenical baits
placed in the containers, which are hung on or beside the trees,
similarly a pollard and arsenical mixture. The variety of insects taken
in these tin containers is large.
Papilio demoleus, L., is another but not so serious citrus pest. This
large and striking looking butterfly is very common throughout the
country and is often to be seen in gardens flitting about among the
flowers. ges are laid upon the young shoots and leaves of citrus
trees upon which the larvae feed. Pupation takes place on the trees or
upon neighbouring plants. Older trees are not usually seriously
affected but young trees may be entirely defoliated. When irritated
the larva everts a long osmeterium which has a somewhat alarming
effect upon the uninitiated. The writer was once solemnly assured
that it was a poison fang !
Adults of the Noctuid, Sphingomorpha chlorea, Craim., which pierce and
suck fruits, cause considerable losses to citrus as well as other fruit
growers. Control measures take the form of fermented baits.
Owing to the delicate nature of the trees in general great care has
144 YHEH KNTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD.
to be taken in dealing with citrus pests. Forms of control adopted for -
similar pests on other plants might cause irrevocable injury. This
renders the task of the entomologist doubly difficult.
REFERENCES,
(I.) Gunn, D. The False Codling Moth (Aryyroploce leucotreta,
Meyr.). Union of S. Afr. Dept. Agric. Sci. Bull. 21, Pretoria,
1921, p. 4.
(IL) Gunn, D. The False Codling Moth (Agryroploce leucotreta,
Meyr.). Farmer’s Gazette, 8. Africa, December 24th, 1925.
On the use of Names in the Study of Variation.
By ROGER VERITY, M.D.
Mr. Turner has successfully stated in a few lines the upshot of the
discussions which have been carried on in these pages during the last
few months. ‘There is nothing new about it. It is the old question,
which has remained unsolved ever since the times of Father Linneus,
unsolved as a general principal, but invariably solving itself in practice
in the same way. Every time a naturalist devotes particular attention
to variation in a group of animals or plants, analyses it more
thoroughly, restricts old names and erects new ones, there is a chorus
of protests raised by those, who had the same materials before their
eyes, but who had not taken the trouble to work them out. The
saddest case amongst lepidopterists was that of poor Rambur, who was
so laughed to scorn by his contemporaries for his discovery of several
species of Grypocera, that they drove him frantic and he died of liver
trouble as a result. Seventy years elapsed before it was realised that
he was perfectly right, and now one wonders how so many clever
entomologists can have been so foolishly blind and so stubborn in this
respect. Again and again the same thing repeats itself, but usually a
few years are sufficient to see the new names taken up into current use
and lately also the old names, which during last century one was only
acquainted with as useless synonyms, are being revived by revisors. A
glance of this sort on past events is the most eloquent proof that
names are not so much of a plague as some want to make them out.
In one way it might seem as if 1t stood to reason that they constitute
an additional effort with which we tax our brains artificially, besides
the facts we have to remember. In practice, however, one finds that
they turn out to be, not only useful, but necessary implements to
assist memory. Man’s brains have evolved so far in the sense of
developing the power of speech and memory connected with it, that it
has become a natural instinct to name every fact and every object he
finds it necessary to recall. The first thing a child or an ignorant
person asks about anything new they seeis: Whatisitcalled? They
often do not care to know anything more about it. In the same way,
in every branch of human activity, most extraordinary words drawn
from ancient or from foreign languages are invented for every instru-
ment and for every phenomenon and are made use of technically
All this goes to show how names are not a useless artificial strain we
put our brains to, but are a help we need if we wish to remember facts.
7
ON 'HE USE OF NAMES. 145
We also have the counterpart proof of this in the way a large number
of excellent descriptions are utterly lost, when they are represented by
no name; one never sees them quoted on any account by later authors.
Riibl affords a good example in his Pal. Grossschmett.; he has described
a large number of seasonal and geographical variations, but all those
he has not named are ignored by Staudinger and by all others, whereas
those he gave a name to are by this time well known. Some of the
former have subsequently been named by others, who are credited for
their discovery. ‘This is only one case out of scores. There is nothing
surprising about it. In our days of specialisation and minute analysis
we are compelled to work with the help of catalogues. Is it possible in
these to record a variation as: ‘‘ the Var. described from such-and-such
a place by Mr. so-and-so’? I doubt a catalogue under this form
having much success. And, yet, if names were not to be given any
more, the only alternative would be to stop working at variation,
considering our knowledge quite sufficient. An extraordinary piece of
presumption! ‘There are also synthetic tables, which could not be
drawn out, without a short way of designating each form. There are
collectors, most of whom do not even consider varieties, if they cannot
label them with a name, so that they do not collect them or pay a
price for them, encouraging professional collectors to look out for them
and discover new ones. In short, names are a necessity in so many
ways that to try and stop developments on this line would not only be
hopeless, but to my mind, absolutely a mistaken attempt, unless a
better method of working out and designating variation were invented.
Where, on the contrary, warnings can never be too strong is in
respect of the judgment required when describing and naming
individual forms, which are infinite in number, and which, anyhow,
should only be named once for all the species of a genus or even, in
some cases, of larger groups. I cannot agree with Mr. Turner about
seasonal variations, which are incomparably fewer and at the same
time very important, because they are the most suitable by which to
work out the causes that produce them. It has not yet been sufficiently
grasped that the number of generations produced every year is perfectly
definite, even in the south of Europe, for each species and that each
generation has interesting characteristics. These, however, vary and
replace each other in some cases, according to the altitude, the latitude
and the nature of the surroundings, so that it is most necessary to
have a short way of designating them in tables of variation and in
local catalogues. Besides, if some years ago what was then supposed
to be a single summer generation of some species had been simply called
“TT generation” and the September one had been called “ [II genera-
tion”’ the most dreadful confusion would now exist in literature when
referring to them, because it has been found that there are two summer
ones and that the September generation is the IV, so that at different
times the same description would have been designated by different
figures. Instead, by restricting the original name and by erecting a new
one it is possible to make corrections of this sort quite clearly. Letters
and numbers have always been found to be most unsatisfactory in
designating variations and sooner or later they invariably have been
replaced by names, ever since Geoffroi and others described several
species and Rottemburg got the credit of their discovery by giving them
names, in the place of the «, £, y, etc., designations used by the former.
146 THE ENTOMOLOGIST S. RECORD.
In answer to Mr. Turner’s particular remark about myself | might add_
that the practice of naming seasonal variations has been going on for
the last century, so that there was no reason to leave a certain number
of generations with characteristic features without names, when many
others had them. I have had to give several, because it is I who have
been fortunate enough, after a great many years observations, to fill
rather a serious gap in our knowledge of the commonest diurnal species
in this respect. Now, however, I believe there are in Kurope very few
more names of this sort to be given.
As to races, it is quite impossible to make rules and to establish
theoretically, which should be named and which should not. It has
happened over and over again that characters which for years had been
considered most irrelevant and which Staudinger, for instance, had
condemned in his Catalog by a disdainful ‘‘ Via nominanda,” have
turned out actually to be specific. HKyeryone knows that species are
often so like each other that it needs a speeialist to separate them and
that, instead, most conspicuous individual differences can be produced
by the slightest change in surroundings during the chrysalis stage.
How, then, can we trust our judgment.as to whether a character is
irrelevant or not? Our only chance of working out facts as completely
as possible is to record carefully all variations which we find to be
prevalent in some loealities; the day will come when their exact value
and position can be determined. Any work done in this sense will be
anything but useless. My experience makes me always more confident
that extremely interesting results will be obtained in a very near future.
The first has already been to make one realise the important difference.
between exerges, and subspecies in general, and simple races and the
necessity of setting to work to separate them. It is next becoming
obvious to those who have devoted enough attention to this subject
that even races are far from being indefinite and innumerable, as it
had always been thought. A few species, such as Parnassius apollo, L.,
but very few, do vary geographically to an extraordinary extent and so
erratically, that it seems hopeless to try and make out any law of
variation from them, but, as a rule, the number and the distribution of
the races of each species correspond to certain regions, or to local
conditions within the latter, which can usually be made ont to be
altitude and moisture, so that four races can be expected in each region
in sensitive species. In this Journal of 1922, p. 177, I have, in
the Introduction to my Catalogue of Peninsular Italy, given a rough
sketch of the zones in which Kurope can be divided in connection with
the distribution of species and their races. I will in future develop
this interesting subject more fuily. What I want to point out
here is, that in the last few years nota single new race has been found
in Peninsular Italy, whereas, before, so many came to my notice that,
no doubt, some entomologists must have thought me crazy on account
of the number of descriptions and names I published, when that region
had not yet been fully worked out. Now, whatever new localities we
explore, we find the same races turn up. No better proof could be
given of how definite races are, notwithstanding the very different
surroundings one meets with in such a large region. The Iberic
Peninsula is confirming the same fact: during two years Querci and
Romei found quite a number of new races to record to complete what
was known about it, although it was already much better known than
CURRENT NOTES. 147
Peninsular Italy, when we took it up; on the third year collecting in
several regions of Spain scarcely produced anything new and this year
Querci writes to me from Portugal that he has found the races
described by Fabricius, Esper, Hiibner and others, and races similar to
Spanish ones, but extremely few novelties. I think we can conclude
from such eloquent facts, that very soon the European races of butter-
flies will be known fairly completely, and that the work done during
the first quarter of this century has carried Lepidopterology a stage
further than it had reached during last century. A catalogue of the
seasonal and geographical variations would already show a considerable
advance on Staudinger’s of 1901. This, however, should not be our
only aim, but the means of attaining much broader results in our
search for truth, because, as Bates cleverly expressed it, the wings of
butterflies are tablets on which nature has written her secrets. Let us
not, through prejudices and lack of energy, shut our eyes to the Light
that is sent to us.
[This letter has been printed with many misgivings. The real
point as issue has been camouflaged by an excess of argument in
favour of designating certain phases of natural phenomena the existence
of which is not questioned. “Tis the method of designating these phases
of variation that is under discussion and it is considered by many of
us that to treat these indefinite conceptions by naming them by the
same method as we do definite conceptions is not only wrong, but
confusing and unscientific, and adds excessively to our overburdened
nomenclature and hinders rather than aids future developments of the
study of these phases of variation.
Races, which are indefinite, compared with subspecies, can be much
more conveniently called by the locality just as one does in conversa-
tion and discussion, e.g., The Dover race, the Simplon race, etc., ete.,
and in this way can be catalogued just as well and with much better
indication than a name such as thompsont, alpina, ete., etc. HKqually
well can a catalogue contain I. gen., IJ. gen., etc., and such a designa-
tion is infinitely better from a practical point of view, than an irrelative
name such as one often gets in these cases. ‘These are ‘‘ short ways
of designating them”’ and quite available and suitable for use ‘‘in
tables of variation and in local catalogues.” I may add that those
responsible for the Zooloyical Record are refusing to accept all racial
names apart from subspecies. Thus entomologists are beginning to
recognise that such names are too indeterminate to be treated as
nomenclature.—H.J.T. |
G{URRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICKS.
A Meeting of the Entomological Club was held at ‘‘ Durandesthorpe,’
19, Hazlewell Road, Putney, on August 17th, 1927, Mr. H. Donisthorpe
in the Chair.
Members present in addition to .the Chairman—Messrs. H.
Willoughby-Ellis, Jas. EK. Collin, W. J. Kaye. Visitors—Dr. Karl
Jordan, Rev. C. EH. Tottenham, Messrs. F. Laing, G. C. Leman, W. H.
T. Tams, G. J. Arrow, Hy. J. Turner, E. Step, K..G. Blair, P. Harwood.
The guests were received in the drawing-room where tea and light
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148 THK KWNLTOMOLOGIST’S RKUORD.
refreshments were provided. During the evening the Host’s collections
were inspected, one of the features being the exhibition of 161 species
of Coleoptera captured by him in Windsor Forest, of which 15 were
new to Britain, 12 rediscovered after a long interval of time, and the
rest consisted of the rarer species, some of which have heretofore only
been taken in the New Forest. Supper was served at 8 o’clock, the
menu being decorated with figures which will illustrate the Host’s
forthcoming book on Myrmecophiles. The guests dispersed at a late
hour after spending a most enjoyable evening.—H.W.-E.
The Supplement on the British Coccidae is postponed to the new
volume owing to the author having to describe several new species to
Britain which he wishes to include in his Revision. The four plates
are already in hand and may be given in this volume if the author
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Notes on Collecting in Spain in, 1925-26, Dr. E. Romei Bi: ah BS "137
A Note on a curious aberration of Euxoa ene keseecont) W. Parkinson-Curtis, ad
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A Note on some §. African Lepidoptera of Economic Importance with especial
reference to the Hastern Transvaal, J. Sneyd Taylor, M.A., D.I.C. .. 41
On the Use of Names in the Study of Variation, Roger Verity, M.D. Ss a 144°
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AN ENDOWMENT FOR WICKEN FEN. 149
An Endowment for Wicken Fen.
By W. G. SHELDON, F.Z.S., F.E.S.
The custodians of Wicken Fen, the National Trust for Places of
Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, have made an appeal to the
public, and especially to naturalists and nature lovers, for an endowment
that will enable them to keep this unique portion of the old Fen country
in its pristine condition ; and as a member of the Executive, and there-
fore fully acquainted with its aims and requirements, I am writing to call
the attention of entomologists to this appeal, and to ask them to help
it as generously as possible.
The Nature Reserve of Wicken Fen has peculiar claims upon them,
for it was founded very largely by the generosity of two entomologists,
the late G. H. Verrall, and the late N. Charles Rothschild.
At the time the main portion of the Fen was left to the nation, in
1912, the donor, Verrall, did not consider it necessary to endow it
because in those days the principal crop, the sedge, was valuable for
forage, litter, and thatching; but at the present time, mainly owing to
the motor so largely superseding the horse, and the old picturesque
thatched houses of the district being rapidly destroyed in favour of
hideous yellow brick and slated abominations, the sedge is no longer
saleable in quantity, and the amount that can be sold only realises
prices that will not cover the cost of the labour involved in getting it.
In order to keep the Fen in its present or recent condition, that is
to say to preserve its unique flora and fauna, it is necessary to cut the
sedge every fourth year, and to prevent the entire area from becoming
a thicket of Buckthorn, Guelder Rose, Sallow, and other similar
growth, these shrubs must not only be cut down periodically, but they
must be eradicated by grubbing up the roots. In addition to this the
numerous dykes require clearing out every few years: when it is
taken into consideration that all this work must be carried out over an
area of 618 acres, it will be understood that a large annual expenditure
must be made on upkeep.
Other causes that have largely added to the responsibilities of the
custodians during recent years are the increased cost of labour, and
the rates levied by the Ouse Drainage Board. This latter item is
an exceptionally exasperating charge, because the Fen, unlike the
surrounding agricultural land, does not require draining, in fact drain-
ing would be fatal to the greater and the more interesting portions of
its flora and fauna.
The result of all this is that the National Trust has been compelled
for some years to reinforce the finance from its own very scanty
resources to the extent of several hundreds of pounds per annum. It
is unable to continue to do so, and unless the endowment it asks for is
forthcoming the Fen cannot be kept in a condition that will preserve
its amenities.
The custodians are aware that there have been justified criticisms
that sufficient growth has not been cut during the last few years, but
tbe reason for this is simply the inadequate finance available.
It is the policy of the National Trust that in regard to any
property they acquire, the wishes of the donors should be especially
studied, and that it should be kept in a manner to accord with them so
* Novemser 157a, 1927. °
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150 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD.
far as they can be ascertained or surmised, and they hold, in the case
of Wicken Fen, that as it is an area so largely given by entomologists
for the purposes of entomology, it must be held to be primarily an
entomological reserve, and that especial facilities should be afforded to
entomologists for inspection and study, and that they should be allowed
to collect specimens in it, to an extent that is reasonable.
Many entomologists have during the last ten years very generously
supported a fund collected by myself to assist the upkeep of the Fen,
and | assure them that this help has been keenly appreciated by the
custodians.
Wicken Fen is well known to most British entomologists, but there
are some who apparently do not know even where it is; to these I
would say it is situated midway between Ely and Newmarket. The
nearest railway station is Soham, about three miles away. Accom-
modation for visitors can be obtained in Wicken village, where several
inns and numerous private houses offer comfortable, if in some instances
rather primitive, apartments.
Although usually spoken of as Wicken Fen, the area under the
administration of the National Trust comprises in addition, Edmonds’
Fen, Burwell Fen, and Adventurers’ Fen.
The custodians became possessed of the first small portions in 1899.
In 1912, Verrall bequeathed 289 acres: altogether the Hon. N. C,
Rothschild and his executors gave 134 acres. In i926, the Rev. E.
Milner-White gave 36 acres, and numerous other small plots have
been purchased or given to make up the total area of 618 acres.
The whole is managed under the Executive and Estates Committee
of the National Trust, by a local Committee amongst whom are many
entomologists, including two members nominated by the Entomological
Society of London, and seven other Fellows of that Body.
The insect fauna of the Fen and the immediate vicinity is very
rich, it being held that it contains at least 4,000 species, including 737
species of Lepidoptera. The great importance of the Fen is that it has
never been drained or cultivated and thus it constitutes a bit of the real
old Fenland, which until comparatively recently comprised hundreds
of thousands of acres in the East of England.
Amongst the Lepidoptera may be mentioned Papilio machaon,
Hydrilla palustris (in Britain almost peculiar to Wicken), Macrogaster
castaneae, Arsilonche albovenosa, Senta maritima, Nascia cilialis, Laspeu-
resia ovobana, Aristotelia quaestionella, Meliana flaniuea, Cidaria sagit-
tata, Tapinostola hellmani, and Bankia argentula.
Amongst the Birds the glory of Wicken is the Montagu’s Harrier.
The history of this fine bird at Wicken is a striking instance of the
value of protection. Up to about 1900 from time immemorial it had
bred constantly in the Fen; after this date, however, the persecution
was so effectual that only at intervals was an odd pair known to nest.
Soon after the National Trust took possession, however, and quiet and
security obtained, first one pair, and in a few years two pairs, bred
regularly, and they bave continued to do so until the present time.
Amongst other birds that frequent the Fen are the Grasshopper Warbler .
which is plentiful, Garganey, Quail, Water Rail, Snipe, Redshank,
Mallard, Reed Bunting, Shorteared Owl, Sedge and Reed Warblers,
and numerous other small birds.
In former times Savis Warbler, the Bittern, Shoveller, Avocet, Ruff,
FIELD NOTES FROM ANGOLA. 151
and many other water birds frequented the Fen, and most of these
may be expected to return to it now sanctuary is available.
The custodians appeal for a sum of £10,000. A gift of £20 carries
with it Life Membership of the Trust, whilst one of £100 entitles the
giver to Honorary Membership.
Donations should be forwarded to the Secretary, the National Trust,
7, Buckingham Palace Gardens, London, 8.W.1.
Field Notes from Angola.
By MALCOLM BURR, D.Sc., F.E.S.
II. Amsorm.
Amboim is a small town nearly fifty miles inland, but the few
bungalows at the little bay which serves as its port, about half way
between Loanda and Lobito are usually referred to by the same name,
It is marked by a prominent bluff, geologically of the same age as our
familiar gault, where a recent exposure due to a fall of cliff shows the
almost vertical bedding. Just beyond is a flat bay, about a couple of
miles across, beyond which a high crest of steep-faced hills covered
with woods looked attractive.
Our boat stopped long enough to make a comfortable trip ashore
possible. The long rank grass and low shrubby plants just above
the beach looked very promising. I did not, however, find a great
variety; Paracinema tricolor is numerous, or what I take to be this
species. It is a great inconvenience in an unfamiliar region not to
know the names of the creatures; one feels the insistent need of some
sort of label, and in many a case I shall have to invent one. When,
however, I see what seems to be a familiar genus or species, and I
know that it ranges through Africa, I cannot resist calling it by the
familiar name. Most names used in these notes will be of this
character, and they must not be taken as serious determinations until
the material has been worked out, as I hope it will by Mr. Uvaroy. In
the meanwhile, | must use some descriptive form of label for purposes
of reference.
The most prominent species was a kind of HKuprepocnemis, which
occurred in swarms in the long grass; the female is so big and clumsy
that she is very conspicuous, especially when half a dozen or so rise
with each step as you walk, and fly off a few yards and settle again ;
while the sun was still fairly high they were so active that it was a
long time before I caught one; sometimes when startled they would
slip down the grass on which they were sitting and wriggle away
among the roots, where it was impossible to get them, or else they
would fly off on the approach of the net. Later on in the evening
when the sun was lower they were more sluggish and it was not
difficult to catch them.
Other Orthoptera were some, whose acquaintance I had already
made at Loanda, the little Xiphidiwn with abbreviated wings in the male
and orange tip to the abdomen ; the females were just like those of X.
fuscum, with no sign of orange and with fully developed organs of
flight. They are very different, and the flying powers of the female
inake her very mobile, far more so of course than the male, yet I feel
152 THE ENTOMOLOG Isit’s RECORD.
sure that they are the sexes of one species, for I have taken plenty of
them by now, together, and not found a female with abbreviated organs
of flight nor male with long ones; that is to say, among the green
Xiphidiums, for there is another species, with well-developed organs of
flight in both sexes, and a shorter ovipositor than the one referred to ;
besides, the colour is a brownish grey.
What I take to be Phaneroptera nana is common enough, and I
picked up a male of the larger relative referred to in the previous
‘‘ Notes,” a fine handsome fellow, with very ample and widely reticulated
elytra and long spidery legs, which are often much darker in colour
than the rest of the body. I found also a single specimen of a larger
species of Phaneroptera.
The pale-blue winged Acrotylus was there on the sandy places, but
not in any numbers, but what J take to be Ochrilidia was common
enough in the grass. A day-flying cockroach was a novelty to me.
The event of the day, however, was the capture of a fine Hetrodid.
I saw him settled on the toy of a mimosa; he was sluggish in his
movements, and on my approach simply dropped to fall, not to the
ground as he had anticipated, but into my net. Readers of the Fut.
Record may possibly remember the account of the habits and appear-
ance of a big, fat. corpulent, wingless, entertaining grasshopper, which
I wrote from Macedonia in 1916 and’ 1917; I cannot now recall
whether it was Bradyporus, Callimenus or Dinarchus: it does not
matter which, as these names are either synonymous or represent
creatures so closely allied that it is indifferent which we use for the
present purpose. These are very big, as big as a good-sized mouse,
very obese, sluggish Locustids, with great rounded heads, very spiny
legs, long pronotum under which are tucked away the elytra, reduced
to mere short musical instruments. They are remarkable, have a
penetrating stridulation, live in colonies in shrubs, generally among
thorns, seem to be peaceable bovine sort of creatures, using their
powerful mandibles for chewing grass and herbage; when handled,
they often chirp to show their anger and also squirt out from the folds
in the abdominal segments and on the pronotum a_ bright
yellow fluid in considerable amounts; this is rather startling, but the
fluid seems to be harmless, and [ let it run freely over my hand with-
out experiencing the slightest effect ; the Bradyporidae consist of but
a few species which occur only in the countries around the Black Sea.
Further, both sexes stridulate.
A group that is somewhat similar in habits and appearance is the
E’phippigeridae, whose main home is Spain and Morocco; these have
very similar habits, the same corpulent body, big rounded heads, the
same stridulating apparatus with the pronotum produced posteriorly to
act as a sounding-board ;' I do not know if they squirt a yellow fluid,
but think it probable; another point in common is that both groups
chirp to express anger and the remarkable fact that both sexes chirp
equally well. Yet these two families are not considered related and
are not placed near each other in the systematic works.
The Hetrodidae is another small family which performs in Africa
the same functions that the above-mentioned ones do in the Iberian
and Pontic areas respectively. They are generally placed at the end of
the series of Locustid families remote from the. Bradyporidae, yet to
outward appearance and in habits they strongly resemble them. They
_ FIELD NOTES FROM ANGOLA. 155
are nearer to the E'phippigeridae, and in his Prodromus Brunner placed
in the Hetrodidae some genera, which have since been removed to the
Ephippigeridae.
Is this striking series of points of resemblance in appearance and
habits due to parallel development? or does it indicate a closer
relationship than the actual structure leads us to consider ?
I was familiar with the Hetrodidae in collections, but had never
before seen them alive and it was a delight to come across them in
nature. The first thing that struck me was the astonishing resem-
blance to my old Balkan friend Bradyporus, The only obvious
difference was the somewhat lesser size, the very short ovipositor and
the long spidery legs, And their habits are the same. [| suspected
the presence of a colony and soon found three or four more on the
mimosa. A few yards further there was a patch of flat clayey mud
with no vegetation but clumps of a low-growing, juicy plant. Here I
saw several ; they were chirping, not very insistently nor loudly; the
note recalls that of Bradyporus, but was less loud; I saw one standing
out on the naked mud, and then | noticed a difference ; Bradyporus
is a squat fellow with short legs, but this Hetrodid has long limbs and
out on the mud he made full use of his height, as though to inspire
fear and stood on tip-toe, so to speak. In this spot they were so
numerous that | counted sixteen without moving from where | stood.
I quickly filled my large killing-bottle to the brim and then had to
wait until they were dead and empty them into the leather case and
carry the bottle in my hand; I became so blasé and tired of stooping
to pick them up that I refused to take any unless I could sit down
comfortably and pick up at least four without moving from the spot.
The bottle was crammed full a second time, and then I put half a
dozen or so alive into the net and carried them on board alive, to kill
as soon as there was accommodation for them in the bottle. Altogether
I had fifty.
There were three distinctly different forms. The smallest were
black, with a pale border round the pronotum, red head and face and
red base to the legs, I take it these were immature. ‘The commonest
form was a size larger and the prevailing colour a purplish red-brown,
the pronotum sometimes tending to greyish and the formidable spines
of the thorax black; the third form is decidedly larger and the
dominant colour is light green, the abdomen shading to reddish, and
the thoracic spines brown at the base. The red and black type of
coloration is characteristic of some members of the family in the adult
stage, cf. Mugaster yuyont and FM. spinulosus.
Had I taken them separately I should have regarded them as three
distinct species, but I could find no really distinctive character other
than size and colour, and as they all occurred together, | think it is
probable that they are all one species. It is instructive, for instance,
that the only immature specimens were of the red and black colouring
and that there were only three, two males and a female, of the large
green form, though some of the others showed a tendency towards
green.
I walked about two miles on and back again, but found no more
except in this colony until dusk. Then, walking through a field on
my way back to the boat, a chorus of Locustid music resounded
all around; I could not spare time to stop to collect, but was able to
Fabricius, wndata (1787) ; Borkbausen, bistrigata (1790) and fasciculosa
(1790).
The bipuncta of Duponchel, Hist. Nat. VI. 171. plt. 84 (1826) has
been frequently cited as diluta. But D. himself expressly states that
it is not diluta and in bis Cat. 101 (1840) makes it synonymous with
duplavis.
Tutt. Br. Noct. I. 5 (1891); Barrett (Lep. B.J. III. 204. plt. 118
(1896) ; Stdgr. Cat. ed. 3. no. 2849 (1901) ; Spuler. Schm. Fur. I. 835
plt. 78 (1908) : South. 1.8.1. II. 91. plt. 89 (1907): Warr. (Seitz).
Mace. Lep. Pal. Bomb, II. 829. plt. 49b. 56b (1912).
The forms to be considered are :—
ab. nubilata, Rob. & Gard. List of Br. Lep. 18 (1885).
ab. variegata, Splr. Schn.-Fur. I. 885 (1908).
ab. latimedia, Warr. (Seitz). Gr.-Schm. Pal. II. 830. plt. 56b (1912).
Tutt deals with ab. nubilata, R. & G@. Brit. Noct. 1. 5.
Barrett (l.c.) points out the crest of black scales on the back of. the
8rd segment of the abdomen and also the fascicles of white hair-scales
projecting backwards from the last segment of the thorax.
ab, variegata, Splr, le.
Orie. Descrip.—‘ Examples of those with grey ground colour, may
also have narrow brown transverse lines, of which also the outer and
inner margins are bordered yellowish white, the inner of which expands.
in the middle of the basal area to a large spot.”
THE BRITISH NOCTUAE AND THEIR VARIETIES. (29)
ab, latimedia, Warr, l.c.
Fieurns,—l.c. plt. 56b (1912).
Ore. Descrip.—‘‘ In the darker grey examples the narrow pale
median area becomes as dark as the bands, whieh are not filled in with
brown, forming a broad dark median fascia edged by pale lines.”
Herculesbad. In the figure there are traces of the normal light area
remaining around the discoidal and on the inner marginal area below.
The next forms were omitted from the list.
ab. asemata, Dann., Ent. Zeit. XXXIX. 12 (1925).
Orie. Descoriep.—‘‘ A dark grey specimen without markings,”’ rare in
8. Tyrol among other forms.
While the last part was in the press Herr Reisser of Vienna
described another form of this species which has occurred in some
numbers in Brunswick and Schleswig- Holstein.
form hartwiegi, Reiss., Zeit. Oster, Ent. Ver. VEL. 15 (1927).
Fieurrs.—l.c., plt. ILIL., figs, 1-2 9 @.
Orig. Descrie.—‘ The males of this form: are slightly larger and
are in general of a paler grey, mostly slightly tinged with yellowish,
very seldom somewhat darker. The two dark brown transverse bands
stand out sharp and distinct, the basal one on the outer side, from the
costa to the inner margin, is defined by a firm black or dark brown
line, the inner margin of the outer transverse band is also. mostly
clearly defined ina similar manner. The latter band, equally as strong,
is also very well defined towards the marginal area, the outer, slightly
toothed, yellowish marginal line in most specimens is well defined and
distinctly emphasised. The white central dot at the end of the cell is
wanting as a rule or is poorly developed. The grey ground colour of
the forewings of the females as a rule makes a greater contrast than
in other female forms, so that the transverse bands stand out more
firmly and sharply from the ground colour. The ground colour of the
hindwing has also a somewhat yellowish tinge; the basal blackish
scaling of the pale middle fascia is usually more clearly and sharply
emphasised, and appears as a direct continuation of the broad red-
brown first transverse band of the forewing. ‘The fringes of the latter
are mostly yellow-grey, in a few specimens running to ochreous; the
grey transverse band is more distinctly emphasised than in ordinary
females.”
The figures show the distinctions very well.
Asphalia (Polyploca) flavicornis, Li.
Orie. Descrrep.—lLinn. Sys. Nat. ed. X., 518 (1758).
Tutt gave Sys, Nat. ed. XII. (1767). The description is a verbatim
copy of ed. X. (1758).
The name cinerea was used by Hiifnagel, Rottemburg, Aurivillius
and Spuler; Juteicornis, by Haworth; and sulphureo-maculata by
Retzius and Villers.
The name cinerea, Huf. 1766 was advocated by Aurivillius and others
for flavicornis, L., because the XIIth. ed. of Sys. Nat., 1767, was. cited
as the original, instead of the Xth. ed. 1758.
oF
(30) THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD.
Tutt. Br. Noct. I. 5 (1891), IV. 82 (1892): Barrett, Lep. Br. Isles.
III. 207, plt. 118 (1896): Stdgr. Cat. ed. 3, no. 2852 (1901); Splr.
Schm. Eur. 1. 885, plt. 78 (1903): South, Moths B.1. 1. 92, plt. 89
(1907): Warr. (Seitz.) Mac.-lep. Pal. Bomb. 11. 330, plt. 49h (1902) :
Houlbert Lép. comp. XVIII. (2), 2140, figs. 56-57 (1921).
Barrett’s figures on plt. 118 are :—fig. 2, 8. of England, greenish
grey: fig. 2a Yorkshire, pale slate grey: 2b, 2¢, Cannock Chase,
mixed Yorkshire and Scotch form with long orbicular stigma: 2d,
Scotland, darker and more shaggy.
Of the variation.
Seriba, Beitr. I]. 210 (1798) says that the orbicular stigma is
either “ pale yellow, dense yellow, greenish or whitish.”
Barrett, Lep. Br. 1. IL. says, ‘ Variable in ground colour, and in
depth of markings. In the 8. of England the ground colour is usually
greenish grey; pale slate grey in the eastern counties; in Scotland
more shaggy in appearance with dark greenish-grey or blackish-grey
ground colour, and the markings greatly intensified; in the Midlands
all these characters become mixed together, except that of the distinct
orbicular stigma.”
Houlbert notes Lép. comp. XVIII (2), 214, that, ‘‘ This species, in
England, is subject to certain variations as much in its coloration,
which goes from grey to olive green, as in the details of the designs
on its wings.”
The following is a list of the described forms, which do, or may,
belong to this species.
race finmarchica, Scbhoyen., Ent. Tidsk. [1. 121, plt. 1 (1881) Lapland.
race scotica, Tutt., Ent, XXI. 47 (1888) Scotland.
race galbanus, Tutt., Br. Noct. I. 6 (1891) 5. England.
ab. rosea, Tutt., Br. Noct. I. 6 (1891).
ab. haverkampfi, Lamb., Ann. S. ent. Bely. XLVILI. 187, plt. 1
(1904).
ab. fuscomaculata, Closs., Int. Ent. Zeit. XI. 84 (1917).
race anglica, Houlb., Lép. comp. XVIII (2). 214, fig. 57 (1921).
Britain (?)
ab. interrupta, Houlb., l.c., p, 215.
ab. nigrescens, Houlb., dc.
ab. medionigra, HOf., Verh. z.-b. Wien. LX XIII. (198) (1928).
ab. obsoleta, Masl., Pols. Pism, Hut. LI. ibs ke fig. (1923).
ab. conjluens, Masl. l.c.
Tutt treats of four forms (1) The pale yellow-green southern form
galbanus : (2) The dark grey form with strongly emphasised markings,
scotica: (3) The forewings richly suffused with purplish, rosea: and
(4) The Scandinavian race, finmarchica.
Browne Cat. Dobr. Coll. 4, treats finmarchica, Schoy. and scotica,
Tutt, as the same.
Schéyen’s figures of /inmarchica shew g and 2. The male is
darker than the Scottish form and has only the orbicular stigma
marked, and most of the markings other than the transverse ones are
THE BRITISH NOCTUAE AND THEIR VARIETIES. (81)
not in evidence. The female is slightly lighter than the male with no
traces of stigmata and the minor markings quite suppressed.
ab. haverkampfi, Lamb., Ann. S. ent. Bely. XUVIIL. 187 (1904).
Ficure.—l.c., plt. 1.
Oric. Descrre.—‘‘ Forewings of a silvery grey, uniform, very bright,
with the costa whitish. In typical specimens the forewings are of a
deep cinereous grey, powdered with yellowish and greenish : of all the
typical markings there remains only the black subterminal line.
Stigmata very distinct, especially the orbicular, which is small, whitish,
and absolutely circular, finely bordered with black and with a_ black
central dot. Lowerwings of a pale grey with the marginal border
deeper ; the median lines are quite wanting. Below, the wings of a
uniform pale grey, without trace of lines.” Forest of Soignes.
The figure is that of a large specimen ; the only markings on the
forewings are the orbicular and reniform, the latter smaller than usual
and the former larger and more conspicuous, and a very black waved
submarginal line, very conspicuous. ‘The remaining portion of the
wing quite uniform in coloration with the veining indicated.
ab. fuscomaculata, Closs., Int. Hnt. Zeit. XI. 84 (1917)
Orie. Descrie.—‘‘ Smoky suffused. The transverse band very
prominent. The spots filled in with dark brown. Strasburg.”
race anglica, Houlb., Lép. comp. XVIII (2), 214 (1921) Britain.
Picure.—i:c., £. 57.
Orica. Descrie.—‘‘ The forewings are narrow, elongate, with their
outer margin regularly curved, but very oblique; the coloration, on
the whole, is grey or of a greenish grey, with five sinuous transverse
lines; the first of these lines near the base of the wing is incomplete
and bent back at its two ends; the three which come next are entire,
but the two outer of them unite into one before reaching the costa ;
finally the fifth, sometimes doubled, divergent and approaching the
apical angle, is well marked very nearly to two thirds of the disc. ‘T'wo
other sinuous bands, but much less clear, follow the outer margin, the
darkest terminates exactly in the apical angle. [In the middle area,
the costal margin, as far as half the disc, is of a greenish grey more
or less marked and sometimes even forms a spot which crosses the
transverse lines of the first group.”
“ The hindwings are of a fallow grey, duller along the outer margin,
the fringe is uniformly of a clear fallow. Below the coloration is
greyish fallow, with brown double bands but incomplete on both wings.
Head, thorax and abdomen of a dull grey.”
“The eight examples were from the Goldthwaite coll. only one
bearing the label Perth.”
This would appear to be the scotica of Staudinger except that it
has not the yellowish stigmata, but has yellowish grey hindwings and
clear yellow fringes.
ab. interrupta, Houlb., l.c.
Orie. Descrip.—‘‘ The wings are of a greenish grey with a small
prolongation of the discoidal orbicular spot cutting through the two
outer lines of the first group.”
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This seems a very trivial aberration, which may occur in all the
forms.
—
ab. wigrescens, Houlb., l.c., p. 215 (1921).
Ficure.—l.c., plt. CDLXXXIX., f. 4081.
Orie. Descrie.—‘‘ This curious aberration is distinguished at the |
first glance by the three wide bands which cross the forewings; one |
can see that the three bands correspond to the three groups of sinuous
lines mentioned in the description of anglica and which are also existent —
in flavicornis. Jf we suppose these lines, enlarged and becoming fused,
we readily conceive the origin of the three bands.” |
«The basal colour of the forewings otherwise is chocolate brown ;
the white rectangular band is apparent on nearly half the costal margin,
the fringe is of a reddish grey, crossed by brown lines formed by the
prolongation of the veins. The lowerwings are of a uniform brown
with a plain frmge. Similarly below the coloration is uniforux wrth
vague indications of doubled but very incomplete brown bands, as in
race anglica.”’ This is a unique specimen from the Harper sale.
“ Perthshire,” ~
According to the figure this is a most remarkable aberration.
ab. medionigra, Hof., Verh. z.-b. Wien. LX XIII. (193) (1928).
Orie. Drsorip.— “ Has the central area of the fore-wing broadly
black darkened, so that the greenish orbicular and reniform stigmata
stand out from it sharply.” Near Vienna.
ab, obsoleta, Maslow. ; Pols. Pism, Ent. Il. 181 (1928).
Fieure.—l.c., f. 13 (a very poor one).
Orie. Descem.—‘* Alae anticae maculis obsolescentibus.’’ The
two stigmata almost wholly obsolete.
ab. confluens, Maslow. ; l.c., p. 128 (19238).
Fieurs.—di.c., f. 5 (a very poor one).
Orie. Descrie.—* Alarum maculae in unam oblongam confluentes.”’
The two stigmata united with one another.
Asphalia (Polyploca) ridens, ¥.
Houlbert, Léy. comp. XVIII (2), 199 (1921) creates a new genus,
Parwelina, for ridens and a form singularis which he describes as a new
species from Digne.
He points out that the position of ridens has always constituted a
difficulty and says that ‘“‘ Given the character of the eyes, of which the
cornea is quite visibly ciliated, it belongs, undoubtedly, to the Poly-
plocini. In this group it represents such a special stem that it seemed
necessary to make it the type of a new genus. We have chosen the
name Parmacina on account of the resemblance of the forewings to
certain lichens.” :
This species is the chrysoceras of Beckwith (Linn. T'rans. 1798) ;
the flavicornis of Schiffermitller (1775) ; the putris of Rottemberg (1776)
and ‘ La téte rouge’’ of Ernst. and Engram. (1788).
Tutt Brit. Noc. I. 6 (1891): Barrett. Lep. Bi. IL, 211, plb. 119
(1896): Stdgr. Cat. ed. 3, 260, no. 2853 1901): Spuler. Schm. Hur.
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I. 886, plt. 78 (1908): South. 7.B./. II. 98, plts. 88-89 (1907) :
Warren (Seitz.) Pal, Bomb. Il. 3880, plts. 49, 56ce (1912): Houlb.
(Obthr.) Lép. Comp, XVUI (2), 201, figs. (1921).
Of the variation Barrett says, ‘‘ Always variable in ground colour
and markings, but especially the latter, which, changing from their
general sharpness and distinctness, become, in some specimens
altogether softened and obscured.” ‘This variation appears to be
normal and constant and by no means local or climatal, the same
extreme or medium being found in the most widely distant localities.”
The following is a list of the forms to be considered.
ab. erythrocephala, Esp., Schm, Abld. 1V. (1), 809, plt. 121 (1786).
r. wanthoceros, Hb., Samm. Noct. 205 (1602).
ab. interrupta, Tutt, Hnt. XXI., 47 (1888).
ab. interrupta-ochrea, Tutt, Brit. Noct. I., 7 (1891).
ab. interrupta-alba, Tutt, le.
ab. nigricans, Splr., Schm. Hur. L., 386 (1908).
ab. variegata, Splr., Le.
ab. concinna, Warr. (Seitz.), Pal. Bomb. IL. 830, plt. 56e (1912).
ab. serenoides (Gn.) Houlb., Lép. comp. XVIII. (2), 204, plt.
CDLXXXIX.,, fig. 4030 (1921).
r. (ab.) singularis, Houlb., U.c. 206, plt. CDLXXXIX., fig. 4029
(1921).
Tutt deals with erythrocephala, Esp., vanthoceros, Hb., interrupta,
interrupta-ochrea and interrupta-alba.
Houlbert says ‘‘As for the variety erythrocephala, Ksp., most
authors do not distinguish it from the type ridens, F., and we think
that it is a prudent opinion.” Lép. comp. XVIII. (2), 208.
Houlbert also notes that the ab. interrupta, Tutt, appears to him
‘as an ordinary ridens in which the dark central band of the forewing
is interrupted by a greyish space more accentuated than usual.” Lép.
comp. XVIII. (2), 204.
Houlbert remarks that the form wanthoceros, Hb., ‘appears to be
the most emphasised melanistic variation which one knows to-day.”’ J.c.
Browne (Cat. Dobrée-Fox) makes wauthoceros, Hb., as a synonym
of ridens, F., but this cannot be as the former gives a general brown
impression while videns gives an impression of blackness. The former
is uniformly dark with a minimum of lighter clouding.
ab. nigricans, Splr., Schm. Eur. I., 886 (1908).
Orie. Descrmp.—‘ Examples suffused with black up to the whitish
remainders of the transverse and basal lines.”
ab. rarvieyata, Splr., Sch. Hur. L., 836 (1908).
Orie. Descrie.—‘ Similarly dark specimens, but with whitish
stigmata and very broad whitish markings spotted over the middle
area.’
ab. concinna, Warr. (Seitz.), Pal. Bomb. IL, 880 (1912).
Ficurr.—l.c., plt. 56c.
Oric. Descrirp.—‘ The basal area and the whole space beyond the
median fascia to termen is pale bluish green; the extreme base with
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:
;
some olive and fuscous scales; the median area olive fuscous, with the ~
two lines and the veins black, the stigmata marked with pale green
scales; the subterminal line sagittate, interrupted on vein 5; the
terminal line lunulate and the fringe white intersected by black wedge-
shaped marks beyond the veins; hindwing white with termen narrowly
grey.”
An English aberration.
ab. serenoides (Gn.), Houlb., Lép. comp. XVIII. (2), 204. (1921).
Fieure.—plt. CDLXXXIX., fig. 40380.
Orie. Descrie.—‘* This form is distinguished from typical ridens by
the more extended coloration of the white spots on the forewings; as
a result the brown transverse bands across the middle of the wings,
and the two spots of the discoidal area are much more pronounced than
in the type.”
A specimen obtained by Guenée from Doubleday and labelled in
his collection as serenoides (M.S.) without a published description.
ab. (race) singularis, Houlb., Lép. comp. XVITL. (2), 206 (1921).
Ficure.—plt. CDLXXXIX., fig. 4029.
Orie. Descrie.—‘ General size and facies of ridens, but it is
distinguished very clearly by its coloration which is of an ashy-grey
and notan olivaceous green. Themarkings on the wholeappear to be the
same as those of ridens, but much more simplified ; one does not find
the brown and white transverse lines, and only that portion of the wing
near fringes show any well-marked spots. At the base of the fringes
there exists a series of very small spots ocellated with white which are
never seen in ridens.” Taken near Digne by M. Culot.
The description and the figure are certainly of a form of ridens,
which we have assumed it to be.
2. Family :—Bryophilidae, Gn.=Sub-family Metachrostinae, Warr.
Genus :—Bryophila, Tr. (1825) = Metachrostis, Hb. (1822).
Warren in Seitz says, Pal. Gr.-sch. III. 18. ‘“ Until quite recently
the genus has gone by the name of Bryophila, Tr.; but the older name
of Metachrostis, Hb., revived by Meyrick in his Handbook, appears
quite unassailable and I have therefore called the subfamily
Metachrostinae.”’
Hampson (Lep. Phal. VIL.) did not accept Metachrostis, Hb., as he
assumed the date of the Verz. to be 1827. But this date has now been
shown to be most improbable.
Bryophila, Tr.= Metachrostis, Hb., perla, Schiff.
Orie. Desorre.—Schiff. Wien. Verz., p. 70 (1775).
There is no real description. The ‘‘ Perlenfarbene Eulen (the pearl
coloured Noctua) N. perla” is placed in the group of ‘“ Noctuae
variegatae”’ with ylandifera, degener (=algae), aprilina and ligustri.
Tutt gave Fabricius (Mant. II. 178) as the original describer (1789)
no doubt because his was the first description.
Both Borkhausen (Fur. Schm. IV.) and Ernst (Pap. d’Kur. V1.)
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called it glandifera in error, and Scriba (Beitr. III., 262) gave it the
name of lithophila (1793) when he described the larva.
Hufnagel, ‘‘ Berl. Mag.” 1766, called the species domestica and this
name was used by several authors. Its use was discussed by
Rottemburg (Naturf. 1776), Zeller (Jsis 1844) and Werneberg (Beitr.
1864).
Tutt Brit. Noct. I. 7 (1891): Barrett Lep. Br. Isles. VI. 210, plt.
250 (1900) : Stdgr. Cat. ed. 3, no. 1600 (1901): South Moths. B.I. I.
200, plt. 103 (1907) : Hamps. Lep. Phal. VII. 625 (1908) : Splr. Schn.
Eur. I. 184, plt. 81 (1908): Warr. (Seitz.) Pal. Noct. III. 21, plts. 4f,
4 (1909).
Tutt gave three forms ab. distincta, ab. suffusa, and ab. flavescens,
which he had described and named in 1888 (Hntomologist XXI. 49),
and in Brit. Noct, [V. addenda, also dealt with race pyrenaea, Obthr.
It is generally agreed that the Iutescens, Fuchs, is the flavescens,
Tutt. It has been overlooked that Tutt published his description in
1888 prior to Fuchs; hence his name must take precedence.
sub-sp. perloides, Gn., Noct. V. 29 (1852).
form pyrenaea, Obthr., Et. Hnt. VIII. 48, plt. L, fig. 13 (1884).
Pyrenees.
ab. flavescens, Tutt, Hnt. XXI. 49 (1888).
ab. suffusa, Tutt, Ent. lc.
ab. distincta, Tutt, Hint. lc.
ab. lutescens, Fuchs, Jahr. Nass, XLII. 208 (1889).
ab. robusta, Favre, Mac.-lep. Valais. 127 (1899).
form perlina, Stdgr., Cat. Lep. Pal. 167 (1901). Aragon, Castile.
race rosina, Culot., Noc. et G. I. 133, plt. 24, f. 17 (1909).
ab. grisea, Vrbrdt., Mitt. Schw. e, Gess. V. 12, 458 (1917).
form grisea, Dufrn., Lamb, (Rev. Mens.) XXV. 32 (1925).
race confinis, Dannehl., Hint. Zeit. XX XIX. 148 (1926).
“The variation of ground colour is from pale yellowish white to
bright red yellow”’ (Spuler). ‘ The Pyrenean race is still darker than
any British specimens and the hindwings are wholly dark also”
(Warren in Seitz).
Ishould have said, variesfrom a slightly soiled white (very rarely pure
white) to bright red yellow.
subsp. perloides, Gn., Noct. V. 29 (1852).
Fieures.—Ramb. Cat. Lep. And., plt. 7, f. 4 (small dark brown
perla): plt. 18, f. 1 (similar, lighter ground, contrast of grey-brown
and dark brown) (1858): Warr. (Seitz.) Pal. Noct. IL, plt. 4g.
Orie, Descrrep.—‘ Intermediate between par of glandifera and perla,
but nearer to the last. A little larger than perla, 23mm. Forewings
proportionately longer and less prolonged at the apex, strongly
powdered, either with yellowish or grey, but then rather greenish than
bluish. Lines well marked. ‘Lhe extra basal unites below to the half-
line, the elbowed line curved above as in glandifera. The two ordinary
stigmata contiguous and the reniform smaller and duller as in the last
named. Fringes marked with a double series of black dots. Lower-
wings duller, not being divided at the marginal line by white spots as
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in perla ; below whitish, with the discal spot, the subterminal line and
the margin clearly marked. Base of the pterygodes marked with a
black dot. Palpi more curved and more ascending than in perla.”
Andalusia.
Guenée distinctly says that it differs from perla, the markings being
almost those of ylandifera, and from glandifera by its smaller size, its
shape and facies, which are undoubtedly those of perla.
Warien (Seitz) suggests that pyrenaea, Obthr., is dark perloides and
perlina, Stdgr., a pale perloides.
ab. lutescens, Fuchs, Jahrb. Nass. XLII. 208 (1889).
Figures.— Warr. (Seitz.) Pal. Noct. II1., plt. 4g. Milliére gave an
excellent figure in Ann. Soc. Cannes 1879, plt. 7, fig. 18.
Orig. Desorie.—‘‘ The forewings bright clay-yellow or clay-brownish
suffused. Not always of equally dense suffusion. Sometimes only
portions suffused with yellow. Sometimes head and thorax also
suffused yellow.” BrNoct. I. 19 (1891): Barr: Ley. Br. Is.
II]. 265, plt. 122 (1896): Stdgr. Cat. I[led. 182 (1901): Splr. Sch.
Eur. I. 187, plt. 81 (1908): South Moth. Br. Is. I. 195. plt. 100
(1907): Hamp. Lep. Ph. VIII. 108 (1909): Warr.-Seitz. Pal. Noct.
III. 16, plt. 3f (1909).
Of the variation Barrett says, ‘“‘ Not very variable. I reshly reared
Specimens often have almost a pinkish hue, which usually fades leaving
merely the warm yellowish under-shade.”’
The forms to be considered are :—
tridens, Schiff., Verz. 67 (1775).
virga, Tutt, Ent. 50 (1888): Brit. Noct. I. 20 (1891).
bidens, Tutt, Brit. Noct. I. 20 (1891).
quinquedentata, Tutt, l.e.
rosea, Tutt, l.c.
juncta, Tutt, lc.
increta, Btlr., Ann. M.N.H. 5(1), 78 (1878).
kargalika, Moore, Ann. M.N.H. 5(1), 232 (1878).
asignata, Splr., Schm. Hur. I. 187 (1910).
intermedia, Warr.-Seitz., Pal. Noct. III. 16 (1909).
variegata (Hamp.), Strand., Arch. Natury. UXXXI. A. 11, p. 157
(1915).
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Tutt deals with—1. The slightly banded form figured by Newman,
Brit. Moths, 248, ab. virga; 2. The rosy tinged form, ab. rosea; 8.
The form with the curtailed psi mark, bidens; 4. With the basal mark
produced with two bifurcations, guinguedentata; 5. Witb the orbicular
and reniform united, jwncta.
race increta, Btlr. dun. M.N.H. 5 (1). 78 (1878).
Orie Descorie.— g. closely allied to 4. tridens, but noticeably
larger, the primaries much darker and shining, the fringe shorter, less
distinctly black-spotted ; secondaries similar.” Expanse 1 in. 10 lines.
Yokobama.
race kargalika, Moore., Ann. M.N.H. 5 (1). 232. (1878).
Orie. Descrip.—‘ Female. Forewing pale silvery brownish grey ;
reniform and orbicular marks whitish, contiguous, brown-bordered; a
contiguous subbasal transverse recurved line, a discal transverse
lunular line crossed near posterior angle by a short streak; some short
costal marks and a streak on cilia between each vein brown; hindwing
glossy grayish white, outer borders and veins pale grayish brown.
Thorax and abdomen dark giay. Antennae gray. Underside grayish
white: forewing with grayish brown costal streaks and hind margin,
hindwing with brown basal streak and discocellular spot. Palpi
brown at sides. Legs gray, femora tipped with black; tibiae
longitudinally streaked and tarsi banded with black.” Kargalika,
Yarkund. P
“Most nearly allied to A. tridens but differs in being darker; the
markings are somewhat similar; but the basal longitudinal streak is
shorter, thus giving a wider interspace between the two transverse lines.”
ab. asignata, Splr. Schin. Hur. 1, 187. (1910).
Orie, Descrirp.— The black longitudinal arrow in the marginal
area absent.”
race intermedia, Warr.—Seitz, Pal. Noct. III. 16. (1909).
Oric. Descrie.—* Like tridens, but consistently larger, with more
uniformly dark grey forewings ; the stigmata united by a black dash ;
the tibiae and anal segments of abdomen laterally streaked with
black.” ‘Japan, Corea and W. China, and is surely distinct from
tridens.”
Warr. describes this as a species, but refers it to Butler’s increta
(praeocc.). He subsequently refers the large Japanese tridens to inter-
media (=)
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Lw., Syrphus corollae, F., Sphaerophoria menthrasti, L., S. sp.
(No. H538), T'ropida sp. (No. H540).
Phoridae.—One bred but not identified (No. H629).
Trypetidae.—Ceratitis capitata, Wied., Dacus longistylus, abundant
on Calotropis procera.
Drosophilidae.— Drosophila melanogaster, Mg.
Anthomytidae.—Three Anthomyiid species bearing my numbers
H549 (2243 coll. Min. Agric.), H550 (777 coll. Min. Agric.), and H551.
Muscidae.—Musca domestica, only too abundant, Lucilia sericata,
Mg., Muscina stabulans, Fin.
Tachinidae.—T wo species not determined numbered H547 and
H548.
Sarcophagidae.—Sarcophaga faculata, Pand., three Sarcophaga spp.
numbered H827, H544, and H545.
Hippoboscidae.— Hippoboscia camelina, Leach., H. equina, L.
HymEnoptERA.—-66 species, mainly bees, were taken. Ants were
not searched for to any great extent, but many species occur. The
following were identified.
Chalcididae.—Chalcis brevicornis, Klug., bred freely from Danais
chrysippus, Li., (Lep.), Chalets sp. (No. H819).
On Calotropus procera in February | took sparsely an insect that
the late G. Storey thought warranted the erection of a new family
lying between Chalcididae and Braconidae. These specimens were
numbered H521. The species was taken from the flower heads of the
‘“* Dead Sea fruit.’”’ The insect would undoubtedly be found again by
search in the Aswan district. Whether any of my specimens survive
in either of the collections previously named, I cannot say. I fear
they were amongst the insects destroyed in transit.
Ichneumonidae.— Bassus laetatorius, F., February.
Chrysididae.— Philoctetes defleaus, Abeille., Hedychrum coelestinum,
Spin., Chrysis stilboides, Spin., UC. albipilis, Spin., Stilbum splendidum,
By
Formicidae.—Camponotus maculatis, F., Myrmecocystus viaticus, F.,
Aphaenogaster arenaria, F.
Mutillidae—Mutilla interrupta, Ol., Dasylabris arabica, Ol.
Scoltidae.— Myzine zonata, Guér., Dielis collaris, F., Scolia maura,
F., S. erythrocephala, F., 8. mendica, Klug.
Pompilidae.—Pompilus dispar, Dahlb., P. fusens, Li.
Sphegidae.—Ammophila tydei, Guill., Sphea aegyptius, Lep., Philan-
thus trianqgulum, F., Cerceris capito, Let., Bembex mediterranea, Hdl.
Eumenidae—Humenes maxillosa, ¥., BE. eswens, F., FE. pomiformis,
Rossi.
Vespidae.— Polistes gallica, L., Vespa orientalis, F.
Colletidae.—Colletes sp. (No. H525 and No. 862 in coll. Min. Agric).
Apidae.—Sphecodes spinulosus, v. Hagens., Nylocopa aestuans, L.,
common, Megachile nasidens, Fr., M. flavipes, Spin., M. aryentata, F.,
Andrena sp. (No. H507), A. bipartita, Lep., Anthophora byssina, Klug.,
Melitta leporina, Klug., Halictus. tumulorum, L., Halietus sp. (No.
H515), Nomioides variegata, Oliv., Ceratina callosa, F., Apts mellifica,
L. var. fasciata, Latr., the Egyptian Honey-bee.
A Brief Review of the Indigenous Coccidae of the British Islands,
with Emendations and Additions.
By E. ERNEST GREEN, F.E.S., F.Z.S.
[Since the earlier publication of this review (Proc. S. Lond. Ent.
and N.H.S., 1922) so many species have been added to tbe British list
that it has been thought advisable to republish the original article,
together with such emendations and additions as have been rendered
necessary. |
It is not my intention to give a detailed account of our British
Coccidae. Such an account is already available in Newstead’s
admirable Monograph, in two volumes, published by the Ray Society.
My present object is, rather, to attract the attention of our field
naturalists to this interesting but relatively neglected family of insects.
That the subject is by no means exhausted is evidenced by the fact
that within the past eight years, | have been able to add approximately
thirty species to the British list, more than half of which were new to
science.
Newstead’s ‘‘Monograph of the British Coccidae’’ describes 90
distinct species, to which there have since been added another 87, so
that the list now stands at 127. Rather more than half of these (to be
exact, 67) have been found only in glass-houses and must be regarded
as aliens introduced with foreign plants. In the present paper I
propose to ignore these aliens and to review (very briefly) the superficial
characters of such species as are to be found in the open.
But, first, I will attempt to explain how you may recognise a
Coccid when you have found it. This is not quite so simple as, at
first sight, it might appear to be. To the uninitiated, the employment
of a compound microscope will be necessary for the purpose.
It would be difficult to mention any single superficial character
that would be applicable to all the different subfamilies and genera of
Coccidae. Their external form and appearance are so diverse that they
would never be supposed to bear any close relationship to each other,
What, for instance could be more different than Aspidiotus hederae—a
minute, limbless, yellow speck, covered by a separate scale, and Orthezia
urticae—an active species with conspicuous cushions and lamellae of
compact white wax. But discussion of the various modifications of
form must be deferred until we come to a consideration of the
individual species.
Oocctdae may be distinguished from their nearest allies (the
Aphididae and Aleurodidae) by the following characters :— -
The females are invariably apterous, The body is not sharply
divided into the three usual divisions—head, thorax, and abdomen.
In fact, it is often difficult exactly to determine the line of division
between these parts. The eyes, when present, are simple, never
compound. The external mouth parts consist of a short tubular labium
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functioning as a guide for the four long slender filaments which
represent the maxillae and mandibles.
The adult males may be apterous or provided with a single pair of
wings, usually supplemented by a pair of hooked halteres which engage
with the wings (fig. 1). The alate condition is by far the more usual.
The wings have two simple nervures only. ‘The head is more or less
clearly differentiated from the rest of the body, but is devoid of any
vestige of mouth parts. The eyes may be either compound or simple
(usually the latter).
In both sexes the limbs (when present) terminate in a single claw
and the tarsi are, normally, one jointed (fig. 2).
The females pass through from four to five stages, and the males
from five to six, viz.:—Memale. Egg: 1st stage nymph (or larva) ;
2nd stage nymph; [8rd stage nymph]; adult. Male, Keg; Ist
stage nymph; [2nd stage nymph] ; pre-pupa; pupa; adult. (The
atage included in square brackets is the one that is suppressed in the
degenerate forms in which the number of moults is restricted. A few
species are ovoviviparous, in which case the ege stage is passed within
the body of the parent insect).
Coccidae are to be found in every conceivable situation; on the
foliage, stems and roots of plants. There are many gall-making
species, but none of these have been recorded from the British Isles.
It will be convenient to adopt the arrangement given in Newstead’s
Monograph, commencing with the subfamily Diaspinae. Four genera
only come within our category. They all agree with each other, and
are distinguished from members of other subfamilies, in the possession
of a separate covering scale composed partly of cast skins (exuviae) of
the previous moults, supplemented by a secretionary appendix. The
females undergo three moults only; the first, from the egg stage
(fig.8 a), disclosing the young larva; the second disclosing the nymph ;
the third, the adult insect. The males undergo an additional moult, a
pre-pupal and a pupal stage being interposed between the larval and
adult stages. ‘Tbe adult female is without either limbs or antennae,
and the anal orifice is without a setiferous ring. The larva (8 6), asin
all Coccidae, is active, possessing well developed limbs and antennae;
but, having once settled down to feed it remains on the same spot for
the ‘‘ term of its natural life.”’ After the next moult it loses its limbs
(3 c), remaining attached to to the plant by the rostral filaments only.
It is, at first, completely covered by the larval exuviae; but, as the
nymph increases in size, this covering becomes inadequate and is
supplemented by an extension (the appendix) secreted from special
organs on the compound terminal segment (the pygidium) of the body.
Similarly, at the next moult, the adult female (3 ¢) is sufficiently
protected, for the time, by the exuviae of the previous two stages.
Accompanying the subsequent growth of the insect the covering is
completed by a further extension of the secretionary appendix. The
eggs are deposited beneath this composite scale. The adult male (fig. 1)
is provided with four large ocelli, two on the upper and two on the
undersurface of the head. Its abdomen ends in a long, slender point,
the penial sheath. There are no caudal filaments. The four genera
of Diaspinae, represented in this country, are Aspidiotus, Lepidosaphes
(= Mytilaspis), Diaspis, and Chionaspis. They may be distinguished
by the following characters of the covering scales :—
BRIEF REVIEW OF THE INDIGENOUS COCCIDAR. (3)
Aspidiotus.—Seale of female (fig. 4a) more or less circular; the
larval and nymphal exuviae superimposed and completely surrounded
by the secretionary appendix. Scale of male similarly constructed,
but including the larval exuviae only (fig. 4 b).
Lepidosaphes.—Seale of female (fig. 4 f) elongate, mussel-shaped ;
the larval and nymphal exuviae overlapping, situated at or beyond
the anterior extremity of the secretionary appendix. Male scale
similarly constructed (fig. 4 ¢).
Diuaspis.—Seale of female (fig. 4.¢) more or less circular; the
exuviae usually overlapping, surrounded by the secretionary appendix.
Male scale (fig. 4 “/) of a different character ; elongate and more or less
distinctly tricarinate, the larval exuviae situated at the anterior
extremity.
Chionaspis.—Seale of female (fig. 4 h) elongate or pyriform: the
exuviae overlapping, situated at or beyond the anterior extremity of the
secretionary appendix. Male scale (fig. 4 9) elongate, tricarinate.
We have five species of Aspidivtus occurring in the open :—
A. ostreaeformis, Curtis. The so-called ‘‘ oyster-shell scale,’ on the
stems and branches of birch, horse-chestnut, poplar, apple,
plum, and various fruit trees. Scale very inconspicuous,
blackish or dull brown, assimilated in colour to the bark upon
which it rests, often with the superficial fibres of the bark in-
corporated into the surface of the scale.
A. bavaricus, Lindinger. On Calluna vulyaris and Erica cinerea.
Scale brown, of the exact tint of the bark of the heather.
A. zonatus, Frauenfeldt. On oak. Seale dull greyish ochreous, on the
terminal branches of the tree. Male scales pale, translucent
ochreous ; on the undersurface of the leaves.
A. britannicus, Newstead. On holly, bay and box. Male and female
scales brown or brownish ochreous: on the twigs and foliage.
A. hederae (Vallot). On Ancuba. Scale conspicuous, white, the exuviae
pale yellow; on both surfaces of the foliage. This is an alien
that has, within recent years, adapted itself to our climate. I
have records of considerable damage to Aucuba plants in
Devonshire and the Isle of Wight.
The genus liaspis provides two species only :—
D. rosae (Bouché). On cultivated and wild roses and on brambles
(Rubus spp.). Female scale conspicuous, white, exuviae reddish,
Male scales white, strongly tricarinate. Often very abundant
on the stems of cultivated roses, especially those in sheltered
positions, against walls, etc.
D. carueli, Targ. On Juniperus sp. (Royal Gardens Kew) and upon a
variety of Cupressus lawsoniana (in a nursery garden at
Ottershaw, Surrey). Scale inconspicuous, whitish, concealed”
amongst the crowded leaflets of the plant. Though the species
has not yet been recorded from the wild Juniperus communis, it
very probably occurs upon our native plant. The inconspicuous
chaff-like scales are so well concealed that they might be over-
looked very easily.
(4) THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD.
The genus Chionaspis is represented by a single species :—
C. salicis (Linn.). Principally on sallow, willow, and ash, but
occurring, not uncommonly, upon alder, broom, dogwood, lilac,
elm, and several other trees. Scale of female white, but often
obseured by a superficial deposit of algae from the bark of the
trees to which it is attached. The tricarinate male scales are
sometimes clustered so thickly upon the stems as to give the tree
the appearence of having been whitewashed.
The genus Lepidosaphes, which has precedence of the better known
name Mytilasp/s, is similarly represented by the single species—
L. ulmi, (Linn.). A pest of orchard and other trees, well known to
gardeners and fruit growers as the ‘‘ mussel scale,” and
generally referred to, in text books, by the name of Mytilaspis
pomorum, Its popular name is a good description of its
appearance, for the scale is very like a miniature mussel shell,
of a reddish brown colour.
L. ulmi-candidus, Newstead, is a variety with a milk white scale,
occurring on Crataegus.
We now come to the subfamily Leeaniiae with numerous genera, of
which nine occur wild in this country. They are of very diverse
appearance, but may be distinguished by the following characters.
Females with the posterior extremity more or less deeply cleft, with a
definite setiferous anal ring; anal orifice covered dorsally by a pair of
triangular binged plates. Adult males with from four to eight ocelli;
halteres often wanting; penial sheath moderately long and slender ;
usually with a pair of long caudal filaments. The male pupa is
covered by a characteristic puparium, usually composed of translucent
wax, and symmetrically divided into definite plates (fig. 5 d/). Limbs
and antennae generally present in all stages of the female insect, but.
sometimes vestigial or (rarely) absent in the adult.
Genus Lecanium. Adult female naked. Most of our British
species are strongly convex and the skin of the dorsum becomes densely
chitinous and rigid, to form a protective covering for the eggs. Seven
species come within our category.
L. persicae (Fab.) (fig. 5 b). This is one of our commonest species and
infests a large number of garden and wild plants, amongst
which may be mentioned peach, rose, Cotoneaster, Robinia, Nibes,
broom, hawthorn, etc. The adult female is of a reddish brown
colour, strongly convex, slightly longer than broad, with rugose
sides, from 8 mm. to 5 mm. in diameter. ‘The old females are
mere shells, covering a mass of pale pink eggs. They are
sometimes densely crowded upon the stems and branches of
plants grown in sheltered situations, such as peach and rose
trees trained against the wall. Newstead distinguishes two
forms—typical persicae and var. sarvothanni; but I must confess
that I find it difficult to separate them. There is, however, a
question whether typical persicae occurs in this country. If a
varietal name is necessary, it seems to me that robiniae of
Douglas bas preference over sarvthamni of the same author.
The Entomologist’s Record & Journal of Variation.
WOL. XXXIX. (new series) (1927.)
Swe pats 3s VNDER XY
By Hy. J. TURNER, F.E.S.
Coleoptera arranged in order of Genera. The other orders arranged by Species.
Genera, Species, etc., new to Britain are marked with an asterisk, those new
to Biiovice with two asterisies
COLEOPTE Re PAGE PAGE
Agrilus biguttatus .. .. 62 | Halyzia 16-guttata .. Bi ae 4S
Anobium domesticum a 62, 63 | Haplocnemus impressus .. ee: |
Anthicus 4-guttatus ee .. 7 | Homaloplia ruricola ie Spe ee 8
Arima brevipennis .. at .. 42 | Homoeusa acuminata Be Areal)
Aromia moschata .. pars 44, 116 | Hylastes angustatus ae gees
Atheta nidicola a Ne pais attenuatus a a 62, 64
Aulonium ruficorne.. sa 63, 64 cunicularius ©; Ns se Oe
suleatum (trisuleum) .. 63, 64 | Hylesiinae .. wo OL
Bioplanes meridionalis .. .. 106 | Hypophloeus bicolor 3. TpaG4
Brenthidae .. By a au ol fraxini ete : 30 5) (ek!
Callidium alni be ae .. 44 | Ipinae ae ad =e eG:
variabile .. me MG ne Gon el psularicisn mre st me Asien (oh:
Campylus linearis .. 56 .. 44 sexdentatus ae Be cows (x!
Cassida nobilis Ue ae .. 45 | Lacon murinus ie ee ate «|
Cebrio lepturoides .. ts .. 42 | Laemophloeus ater .. Ae tee Gd.
Cerapterus .. Ae .. 46 clematidis . an ef Ni OF
Chrysomela didymata Be .. 45 | Lathrobium’.. Pe Sc ferme
hyperici .. is .. 45 | Leiopus nebulosus .. as .. 45
Claviger nebrodensis ae .. 8 | Leptura fulva 5a a Saye e |
Clerus (idae) .. 56 Se Oe livida 36 an ne we 4d
formicarius Bi Be .. 62 | Lyctus brunneus .. an Bis fy OF
rufipes Malachius aeneus .. fl Bee
**Coccinella (20 new abs.) 66, 67 | Melasis buprestoides Sh so UB}
Coluocera formicaria we .. 9 | Merophysia formicaria .. Sade
Colydium elongatum Hie «2. 103 v. sicula ~.. aie ve 5:
Conopalpus testaceus Sic .- 45 | Mesosa nubila SC sis ayetg ee
Corynetes coeruleus we .. §2 | Molorchus minor .. ae cad
querctis' .. x .. 44 | Molytes glabratus .. ots poe
Criocephalus polonicus Sib .. 44 | Nemosoma elongatum Aoi) 6 Gers cils
Cryptocephalus aureolus .. .. 45 | Olibrus ae ais a Bee 2)
Cryptorrhynchus lapathi .. 70, 116 bisignatus .. =e 3 .. 106
Dichillus pertusus .. a .. 6 | Oochrotus unicolor . “ byt oat
Donacia vulgaris .. as .. 45 | Orestes Be Ae sim o
Drilus flavescens .. he .. 44 | Orthochaetes insignis S; eben: 13
Drusilla memnonius an .. 7 | Pachyta cerambyciformis .. .. 44
Dryocoetes alni sé a. .. 63 | Paussidae .. -. 46
autographus s0 .. 63, 64 | Phloeophthorus thododactylus sic) 104
villosus .. of oP 62, 63 | Platypodidae : eee Oe
Elater balteatus .. ai .. 44 | Platypus cylindrus .. oe -. 63
elongatulus an mi .. 44'| Pogonochaerus dentatus .. ie 44
Sanguinolentus .. me .. 44 | Prionuscoriarius .. ae .. 44
Euryusa sinuata .. .. 8 | Psilothrix nobilis .. af ann 44
Exochomus nigromaculatus .. 106 | Pteleobius vittatus .. = 63, 64
v. flavipes .. = ae -. 106 | Ptilinus pectinicornis fe PaO, LG
Gnathoncus buyssoni OO .. 163 unifasciatus a ae eas
Grammoptera analis “3 .. 44 | Rhynchytes .. a ae Be Ne
ruficornis .. aC Ao Sat! interpunctatus .. AB -. 48
tabacicolor An ae ee 44 | Rhyncolus gracilis .. we See
ii. SPECIAL
PAGE
Saperda caprea ote AC sey flett)
populnea .. 45, 69
Scolytidae (tus) 32, 61 |
destructor .. 63, 64
intricatus . ee OS
multistriatus 63, 64
rugulosus .. oe 102
Serica brunnea air baa
Staphylinidae 31, €1
Stenosis brentoides .. 56 I
v. sicula Stee ate ney ae
Stenostola ferrea .. a mean
Strangalia melanura sis) Sap
Teredus nitidus 63, 64
Tetrops praeusta -. 45
Tillus elongatus 62, 116
Toxotus meridianus ieee
Trypodendron lineatum 63
domesticum TOT
querciis nfs 62, 63
Tychius pygmaeus .. an Whoo
Xestobium tessellatum 63
Xylocleptes bispinus : 64
Coleoptera, List of, at Digne 74
DIPTERA.
Asilidae Se iby:
Bombyliidae . . 32, 47
Culicidae ae Sy
degeeri, Vermileo 9
Haematopota oe 116
Leptogastria 32
Sepsidae ae Ne 32
Simuliidae .. $e ais 47
Tabanus 116
Trypetidae 32
Diptera, List of, in the Basses- Alpes 107
HYMENOPTERA.
adriaticus, Bothriomyrmex 7
aethiops, Camponotus 8
aestivalis, Anthophora Hae
alieno-brunneo=nigro-brunneus.. 8
alienus, Acanthomyops 8
atlantis, Camponotus at )
brunneus, Acanthomyops . 8
caespitum, Tetramorium .. 6e49
coarctata, Kumenes ea 42
cyanescens, Violacea ; 41
destefanii, Strongylognathus 6 |
diomedaea (ferox var.), Tetra- |
morium se aie ba Ge|
Dolichoderinae 7
emarginatus, Acanthomyops 8 |
ferox, Tetramorium 6)
flavus, Acanthomyops Be Ne
Formicinae (idae) .. a ee ete
frauenfeldi, Acantholepis .. cs,
fusca, Formica 8
gestroi, Camponotus om 9
glebaria (fusca var.), Formica 8
huberi, Strongylognathus .. 6
humilis, Iridomyrmex eine
Ichneumonidae 47, 142 |
ignita, Chrysis -- 40 |
INDEX.
PAGE
ionia (adriaticus subsp.), Bothrio-
myrmex 2
laestrygon, Cremastogaster
lateralis, Camponotus
ligniperdus, Camponotus
micans (rufoglaucus var. ) Cam-
ponotus 5
niger, ‘Acanthomyops ae
nigerrimum, Tapinoma .. Tata
nigra (frauenfeldi Hae? Acantho-
lepis ;
nylanderi (atlantis var.), Campo-
notus ;
nigrobrunneus
Acanthomyops
pallens =atlantis a
pailidula, Aphaenogaster ..
pilicornis yee AE ) Cam.
ponotus = Pp
Polyergus ws
pratensis, Formica ..
pygmaea, Plagiolepis
quadridentata, Coelioxys
retusa, Anthophora :
rufoglaucus, Camponotus ..
sanguinea, Formica fie Ae
semilaeve (caespitum var.), Tetra-
morium ys Bie BA
semipolita (testaceo-pilosa var.),
Aphenogaster x sic 6,
sicheli, Camponotus
sicula (adriaticus var.), Bothrio-
myrmex
(brunneus_ var.),
~1
ooo Ne) D “oo moo)
isa
mamuoumvramwvvoss lo oe 2) ~ oo =) DONIODOMD
sicula (sylvaticus var.), Campo:
notus z ae
sordidula, Cremastogaster. . el!
spissinodis (lateralis ee, I Cam-
ponotus .. =e ;
Strongylognathus
structor, Messor
sylvaticus, Camponotus 8,
Tapinoma .. “6
testaceo-pilosa, Aphenogaster
Tetramorium : i
truncatus, Camponotus
vagus, Camponotus. .
vectis, Coelioxys : 40
Hymenoptera, List of, at Digne 74
in the Basses-Alpes 106
LEPIDOPTERA.
acaciae, Strymon, Thecla .. 55, 109
achilleae, Zygaena .. 5 14, 41
achine, Pararge ..54, 90, 101
acraeina (actaea r.), Satyrus . 174
actaea, Satyrus a = acpi
actaeina (actaea r.), Satyrus mane lip
adippe =cydippe ..88, 95, 161
adrasta (maera f.), Pararge 154, 155, 156
adrastaeformis (maera ab.), Pararge 155
aegeria, Pararge 90, 96, 148, 156,
164, 167, 168
aegon =argus, Plebeius 41, 111, 160
aéllo, Oeneis.. . 89, 161, 165, 166
aestiva (phlaeas f.), Rumicia J PLLO
SPECIAL INDEX.
PAGE
aethiops, Erebia 89, 115, 125
aglaia, Argynnis : 87, 161
Agriades (Polyommatus) . Soll!)
aigoualensis (actaea 7.), Satyrus .. 174
akis (galathea race), Melanargia .. 126
albicans (coridon subsp.), Poly-
ommatus .. Mole zo. loo
albistrigella, Radiestra . 170
**albo-extensa (spini ab.), Strymon 136
albosparsa (spini ab.), Strymon .. 136
alceae, Krynnis Bok ek Ben” 43)
alciphron, Heodes 54, 110, 160
alcon, Lycaena 57, 113, 165
alecyone, Satyrus 54, 89, 161
alecto, Krebia 165, 166
alfacariensis (thetis ab.), Polyom.
matus 128
alsoides (minimus f. )s Cupido 161, 165
altheae, Spilothrus (Carcharodus) 114
alveolus, Hesperia .. Se SOL:
alveus, Hesperia 114, 115, 161
amandus, Polyommatus -. 160
amathusia, Brenthis Slee Ld
Amatidae (Syntomidae) 31
ammanella, Micropteryx .. 37
amphidamas, Heodes 53, 110, 160, 161
amphonycella, Scythris 36
amyntas (arcania race), Coenonym-
pha : ; : seu eke
amynthus = iphis : is seni
anaxagoras (iphis f.), Coenonympha 123
anaxarete (iphis race), Coenonym-
pha Oe Ae lB
andromedae, Hesperia 160, 161
Anerastiinae . : Ba diey)
angelicae, Zygaena Ae 14
angustana, Kuxanthis Mae Ey!
**anteappennina (maera race),
Pararge 156, 167
anteappennina = vulgaris 164, 167
antiochena (eeinlaren r.), foe bn
matus ; 22
antiopa, Euvanessa.. ac 54, 85
apennina (hispana /.), Polyommatus 129
apollo, Parnassius 22, 29, 52, 55,
82, 83, 115, 146, 160, 161, 167
appennina (maera r.), Pararge 155,
156, 168
aquitania (tyndarus r.), Hrebia 125
arachna (statilinus r.), Nytha 174
aragonensis, Polyommatus 4]
arcania, Coenonympha 37, 38, 39,
54, 55, 70, 71, 72, 73, 90, 122,
161, 165
arcanioides, Coenonympha “en jy
arcas, Lycaena 165, 167
arcella, Tinea é Saw OT |
archippus, Danais .. ae 96, 140
argentana, Cnephasia ; 34
**argenteopunctata ae ab.)
Erebia - a4 138
argiades, Everes 4]
argiolus, Lycaenopsis fe “14, 54, 2
argus (aegon), Plebeius 41, 111, 160
argyrognomon, Plebeius 110, 111, 159
PAGE
Argyroploce .. ais 0 veal
arion, Lycaena 28, 53, 113, 159, 161
armigera, Heliothis, Chloridea 13, 120
armoricanus, Hesperia 127
arogna (galathea r.), Melanargia . 126
arragonensis (coridon r.), Polyom-
matus, Agriades .. 128, 129
artemis =aurinia eae
aruncella, Micropteryx See |
ashworthii, Agrotis .. 6x0 ane fi
assimilella, Depressaria 36
astatiformis, Conopia 35
asteria, Melitaea ot ra OG
astrarche=medon .. 14,111, 160
astur (lefebvrei r.), Erebia.. 176
asturiensis (hispana r.), Polyomma.
tus, Agriades : ead
atalanta, Pyrameis . 86, 161
athalia, Melitaea 41, 54, 86, 160, 174
atra, Acanthopsy che 33
auragoides, Cosmophila 141
aurana Laspeyresia. . 35
aureatella, Micropteryx .. Sri ke Nt)
aurelia, Melitaea 54, 86, 160, 161
aurinia, Melitaea 41, 74, 86, 95,
96, 161, 165, 166
aurorina, Colias : 177
australis (alceae subsp.), Erynnis 24, 25
australis (statilinus r.), Nytha 175
australis (trifolii r.), Zygaena 108
r.), ZAygaena
107,
balestrei (arcania 7.), Coenonympha
barrettii (luteago 7.),° Dianthoecia
13,
balearica (sarpedon
basalella (tityrella), Nepticula
basistrigalis, Scoparia
batis, Thyatira d 28,
baton, Scolitantides. . ‘a 111,
batrachopa = leucotreta
belia = crameri 40,
belisarius (iphis r.), Coenonympha
bellargus=thetis
bellezina (tagis r.), Anthocharis 40,
beilidice (daplidice gen. I.), Pontia
bellis (semiargus r.), Polyommatus
bembeciformis, Sphecia uy
berisali (deione subsp.) Melitaea
54, 86, 160,
bertolis(iphis 7.), Coenonympha 122,
**bethunei (sarpedon r.), ep
107,
betulae, Ruralis, Zephyrus 54, 109,
bicuspis, Cerura..
bimaculana (similana), Eucosma. .
bipunctana, Argyroploce
bipunctidactyla, Stenoptilia
bofilli (spini 7.), Strymon ..
**bolivari (coridon r.),
matus, Agriades ..
bombycella, Psychidea
bombyliformis = tityus
brassicae, Barathra, Mamestra 30,
brassicae, Pieris Sr ab 83,
briseis, Satyrus se oe ate
Polyom-
iv.
PAGE
britannica (variata r.), Thera 4
britannicus (tithonus r.), Santas
phele 3! E cia LDS
britomartis, Melitaea. Semel y)
brunnea (Agrotis), Noctua. . . 141
brunnichiana, Eucosma .. 4 34
bryoniae (napi f.), Pieris 84, 160,
161, 165
cacaliae, Hesperia - 00, OL,, LL4
cadmus (semele r.), Hipparchia .. 175
caeca (semele ab.), Hipparchia 89
caelestissima (coridon f.), Polyom-
matus, Agriades .. shi, agli 28,129
caerulescens (hispana f.), Polyom-
matus, Agriades .. -. 128, 129
caerulescens (trifolii f.), AaPENe 108
caja, Arctia .. 50
calabra (actaea r.), Nytha, Satyrus 172
c-album, Polygonia. . . 77, 85, 175
callidia (hiera Mn), Pararge. . Saye
callidice, Pontia te eS
camilla=rivularis .. ;.52, 85, 161
candelarum, Agrotis =i Be
canescens, Cnephasia 34
cannae, Nonagria 163
**capricola, Radiestra 170
capsincola, Dianthoecia .. SS) Pei
cardamines, Euchloé 84, 160
cardui, Pyrameis .. 86
carlinae, Hesperia .. 81, 114
carmencita (sarpedon r.), Yygaena
, 108
carmenta (tyndarus r.), Erebia 125
carpathica (iphis r.), Coenonympha 123
carpophaga, Dianthoecia .. Seeley
carthami, Hesperia. . 4160
cassioides (tyndarus r.), Erebia 124, 125
cassiope (epiphron r.), Erebia 88
casta, Fumea : 33
castiliana (rumina r.), Zerynthia,
Thais 137
**castiliana (zapateri 3) Erebia.. 137
catillus, Eudamus .. 3 120
centuureae, Hesperia : Sees |
centricatalonica (transalpina r.),
Zygaena oe ao Se 0)
cephalus (arcaniar.),Coenonympha 39
cerealella, Sitotroga 32
ceronus (thetis ab.), Polyommatus,
Agriades 112
ceto, Erebia . 517, 88, 124, 161, 165
cetra (ceto r.), ’ Erebia . 124
chilensis, Hamearis 158
chlorea, Sphingomorpha .. 3545
cbristi, Erebia ..161, 165, 166
chrysanthemana, Cnephasia 34
chrysippus, Danaida Tchhwi2 os oO
chrysoaspida (arcania 7r.), Coeno-
nympha aS ie SON) 2G
cinarae, Hesperia 81, 82
cinerea, Euxoa ae lee
cinnamomeana, Pandemis.. 33
cinxia, Melitaea 40, 54, 86, 95
cirrigerella, Myelois . 176
cirsii=fritillum xe ae ei!
|
SPECIAL INDEX.
clarus (tages gen. II.), Nisoniades
cleo (tyndarus r.), Erebia ..
cleodoxa (cydippe f.), Argynnis ..
clorinda, Zygaena
clorinda (arcania r.), Coenonympha
**clorinda (cinarae a ) Hes-
peria 81,
_ clytie (ilia f.), "Apatura ih:
c-nigrum, Noctua :
| cognatellus, Hyponomeuta
| Colias.. SUF fe 99,
comma, Urbicola Augiades 101, 114,
conigera, Sideridis, Leucania
| conspersa, Dianthoecia
**conspicua (actaea r.), Satyrus ..
| convolvuli, Agrius
coprodactyla, Stenoptilia .. a
cordula (ferula), Satyrus 90, 172,
coretas (argiades 7.), Everes 41,
coridon, Polyommatus, Agriades
10, 11, 23, 26, 46, 50, 101, 102,
104, 113, 115, 128, 129,
corticana, Argyroploce :
cosmodactyla, Platyptilia ..
cramera (medon r.), Plebeius
crameri (belia), Anthocharis _— 40,
crataegi, Aporia . 42, 83,
cristana, Peronea .. sie Ae
croceus, Colias 12, 28, 43, 53, 60,
85,
croesella, Adela :
cruciana, Eucosma.. 4 sie
cuculipennellum, Coriscium
cydamus (epiphron r.), Erebia
cydippe (adippe), Argynnis 88, 95,
eyllarus, Glaucopsyche 40, 41, 54,
74,
cyparissus optilete f.), Polyom-
matus ; ae ne 5
cynthia, Melitaea 165,
damon, Polyommatus a ae
daphne, Brenthis nae One
daplidice, Pontia a
darwiniana (arcania see “Coeno-
nympha_ 38, 70, 71, 72, & ma
decimana, Phalonia ;
degeerellu, Nemotois A
**degener (lycaon r.), Epinephele
deione, Melitaea .. 41, 160,
delius, Parnassius .. 57,
demoleus, Papilio
deserticola vet subsp.), Meli-
taea we
dia, Brenthis als 87,
dictynna, Melitaea .. 54, 86, 160,
didyma, Melitaea 24, 40, 54,
didyma=secalis .
dilectella, Argyresthia
diniana, Eucosma .
discretana, Laspeyresia
dissimilis, Polia, Hadena ..
ditrapezium, Agrotis, Noctua
donzelii=nicias, Plebeius 111, 161,
dorilis (tityrus), Heodes 41,
doris (galathea r.), Melanargia
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125
88
104
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dryas, Satyrus E16?
dubitana, Phalonia.. 34
dumicolana, Tortrix ; a qu Lee)
edusa = croceus .12, 60, 162
egerides (aegeria 7.), Pararge 167
elegans, Zygaena oo) le}
elvira (galathea r.), Melanargia 126
ephippella, Argyresthia Foon!
ephisius (lycaon r.), Epinephele .. 123
epiphilea (arcania r.), Coeno-
nympha 38) 70; 71, 72; 73
epineoridas (neoridas r.), Erebia .. 125
epiphron, Erebia 88, 124, 165
epistygne, Hrebia 56 a, 4
equitella, alleles 35
Erebia 125
erippus = archippus . . - 796
eris (niobe /.), Argynnis ee oO
eros, Polyommatus 57, “ie ei 165
erosa = auragoides 141
Erycinidae=Riodinidae .. 46
escheri, Polyommatus 112, 160, 161
etobyma (ligea 7.), Erebia . 124
etrusca (thetis 7.), Polyommatus . .. 128
eumedon, Polyommatus 112, 161
euphemus, Lycaena 165, 167
euphenoides, Euchloé 40, 41
euphorbiae, Acronicta Se GEN 27
euphrosyne, Brenthis ..41, 42, 87
euridice = eurybia (hippothoé f.),
Heodes .. ae ot 57, 110
euryale, Erebia & .-07, 89, 165
euryanax (statilinus 7.), Nytha 174, 175
eurypylus, Papilio .. ie BeeetaS
Euxoa 138
evias, Erebia ‘41, 54, 88, 159, 160,
161, 165
**excessa (zapateri ab.), Krebia .. 137
exclamationis, Agrotis, Huxoa 30
exempta, Laphygma 142
exigua, Laphygma . S 12, 142
exommatica (iphis ab.), “Coeno.
nympha .. .. 123
**extensa (cinarae ab. ), Hesperia v.82
exulans, Zygaena a8 14
Feltia ee .. 140
ferula (cordula), Satyrus 1729 178
fidiaeformis (actaea 7.), Nytha 175
filipluma (megera r.), Pararge .. 155
filipendulae, Zygaena 14, 40, 108, 174
fischeriella, Glyphipteryx .. 30
**ferulaeformis (actaea ab.),Satyrus 174
fissana, Laspeyresia : PL)
flava (comma /.), Urbicola 101
flava (thaumas), Adopaea .. 115
flavescens (fulvago f.), Xanthia 27
flavidior (simplonia f.), Antho-
charis, Euchloé.. 54, 84, 159, 160
flavimitrella, Incurvaria 37
flaviventris, Synanthedon 46, 67,
68, 69, 176
flavofasciata, Erebia -. 165
florina (galathea T.)5 Melanargia » 126
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formicaeformis, Synanthedon 67,
68, 69, 116
frangulella, Bucculatrix YSD536
frenus (ceto 7.), Erebia 124
fritillum (cirsii), Hesperia .. 81
fulvago, Xanthia O27
funerella, Ethmia, Anesuchia 36
furcula, Cerura SOs 2)
**fusca = extensa (spini ab.),
Thecla, Strymon .. e P36
gaea (hippia ab.), Eronia. . elO0
gaelica (or 7.), Cymatophora 28, 29
galathea, Melanargia 16, 88, 96,
125, 160
gardetta (philea) =satyrion 37, 38,
39, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 122
geminipuncta, Nonagria 65, 163
gemmatalis, Anticarsia Heo ltits:
genava (alcyone f.), Satyrus IUItS9
glacialis (alecto r.), Hrebia 88, 165, 166
glandon=orbitulus 56, 111, 165, 166
glaucinaria, Gnophos 1 32
gnaphalii, Cucullia.. 176
gnomana, Capua .. a3 Apion 6}
goante, Hrebia 88, 115, 166
gonodactyla, Platyptilia 35
gordius (alciphron subsp.), Heodes
54, 110, 160
gorge, Hrebia ..30, 31, 165
gracilis (arcania gen. aE! be Coeno-
nympha ... Se : Eis ie)
graellsia, Xanthodes 141, 142
Grypocera 5¢ ae .. 144
guenéei, Apamea.. ve 14
hectus, Hepialus c Sot O
helena (semiargusr.), Polyommatus 22
helice (croceus f.), Colias . 43, 85, 162
heliceoides (lesbia f.), Colias 98
*themmingi (lineola r.), Adopaea 127
herdonia (maera r.), Pararge 154,
155, 156
herrichi (variata ab.), Thera 5
herrichi (palaeno f.),’Colias Bo ek!
Hesperiinae .. 55 57, 78
hiera, Pararge 79, 90, 157, 160, 161,
164, 165, 167
hippia, EKronia j 100
hippodice (actaea r.), " Satyrus 173
hippolyte, Hipparchia -. 138
hippothoé, Heodes . 3p 57, 110
hispana, Polyommatus, Agriades 124
hispanica (sarpedon r.), Zygaena
107, 108
hispidus, Heliophobus SBS
hispulla (jurtina r.), Epinephele .. 123
huebneri (arcaniar.), Coenonympha 39
humerella, Sophronia : 151136
hyale, Colias ..03, 84, (85
hylas, Polyommatus 112, 160‘ 161
hyperantus,. Aphantopus 54, 90,
118, 123, 160
hypericella = liturella 36
iberica, (fritillum subsp.), Hesperia 81
icarus, Polyommatus 14, 112, 160, 168
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ilia, Apatura 3% ..54, 55, 85
ilicis, Strymon, Thecla 55, 85, 91, 161
immaculata (rubi ab.), Callophrys 109
immorata, Acidalia . 132
immundana, Eucosmia .. »+| 84
indecorata (batis r.), Thyatira .. 28
inaequalis (coridon I), Polyomma-
tus .. vs : ve score gel!
ino, Brenthis we ..04, 87, 16C
insubrica (arcania r.), Coenonym-
pha Ac oe --39, 70, 73
**insubridarwiniana (arcania r.),
Coenonympha .. ose 70, 73
insularis (coridon r.), Polyommatus 168
intermedia (statilinus 7.), Nytha .. 175
intricata (trifolii r. )» Zygaena .. 109
io, Vanessa .. : aa -. 85
iolas, Lycaena és ae 41, 161
iphioides, Coenonympha .. 137
iphis, Coenonympha 53, 54, 70, 90,
122, 123, 137, 160
iris, Apatura aye EI 54, 55, 85
jacobaeae, Hipocrita a6 seu Llé
jaculifera, Feltia .. 140, 141, 169
janira =jurtina se aes | 96,472
juniperata, Thera .. a Aa:
jurassica (alveus ab.), Hesperia .. 161
jurtina (janira), Epinephele 90, 96,
123, 160, 172
kenteana (athalia 7.), Melitaea .. 174
lacteella, Endrosis ,. at piers (DO
lacunana, Argyroploce nF sie ge
lanceolana, Bactra .. ve .. 34
**langhami (thetis r.), Polyomma-
tus ,. HG aS: .. 128
lappona, Erebia dc . 56, 89, 165
Lasiocampidae at ean oe
lateritia, Parastichtis st «i oO
lathonia, Issoria. .. ae 87, 95
lavandulae, Zygaena a 40, 41
lavatherae, Carcharodus .. 114, 160
lefebvrei, Erebia .. ove
leovigilda (napi ab.), Pieris” 84
lesbia, Colias Ae ees 100, 159
leucocinia (maera 7.), Pararge 155, 156
leucotreta, Argyroploce .. 143, 144
levana, Araschnia .. dé wee
ligea, Erebia .. 64, 89, 124, 167
ligulana, Hemimene 35
lilacina (coridon f.), Polyommatus
128, 129
Limenitis .. are 130
limosella, Dichomeris “i 36
lineola, Adopaea, Thymelicus 113, 127
liturella (hypericella), Depressaria 36
longicornis (virgella), Gelechia .. 36
lonicerae, Zygaena .. at 14, 40
loti, Zygaena 5 14, 165
loyselis (sarpedon r. he Zygaena .. 108
lubricipeda, Diacrisia st se
lucilla, Neptis re ae ws eLaO
lueina, Hamearis .. df 41, 91
lucipara, Euplexia .. at