NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE. 



Vol. XVI. MAY, 1909. No. 1 



CATALOGUE OE THE COLLECTION OE FARNASSIINAE 

 IN THE THING MUSEUM, WITH SYSTEMATIC NOTES. 



BY THE HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D. 



IN arr!iiif,ang tliis subfamily of butterflies I iiave made use of Herr H. Sticbel's 

 '' Fasciiiile " on the <];roiii) in Wj tsmau's (jenerd [nsertonim, jniblished in 

 litOT, as being the latest treatment of the family. Herr Stichel has revised the 

 I'ariiusxiinae no less than three times : Hrst in the Berliner Kntomoloqische 

 Zeitsclirift, vol. 51, secondly in Seitz, Gross-Sclimetterlinye der Erde, vol. 1, and 

 lastly in Wytsman's Genera Ivsectorum, Fascicnle 58. 



1 do not for a moment jireteiid tliat I have studied this group as thoroughly 

 as Herr Stichel has done, but I have examined a very large number of specimens 

 in addition to those here enumerated (for instance, I have examined at Tring, of 

 Farnassiiis upolloniKS apollonius, 699 specimens from the Alexander Mountains 

 alone), and I have found several facts worth noting which do not agree with the 

 statements of Herr Sticliel.* These notes will be found under the various forms 

 in their proper order. 



I. PARNASSIUS MNEMOSYNE (Linne). 



1. P. mnemosyne mnemosyne (Linne). 



et ab. melaina. 



No specimen in Tring Museum. 



This form is confined to Scandinavia and European Russia. 



2. P. mnemosyne halteres Mnsch. 



2 larvae, Martigny, Switzerland. 



1 find that Imlterets is (jnite as distinct from mnemosyne mnemo/ii/ne as any of 

 the other local races oi mnemosyne. 



3. P. mnemosyne parvus Stichel. 

 No specimens at Tring. 



4. P. mnemosyne hartmanni Standfass. 

 1 <?, 2 ? ?, Tyrol; 4 ? ¥, Bavaria; 4 ? ? , S. Germany (all S melanistic); 

 3 <?cf, 3 ? ?, Reichenhall, 5U0 metres. 



* One of my chief difficulties in fullowiiig Herr Sticliel's classification is the extreme individual 

 variation iu all and every si«cics and subspecies, 



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