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I have, taking the forms together, 1 35 (J ij and 6 $ $, from the following localities : 

 Andalusia ; Oran ; Alger ; Bhda les Glacieres ; Guelt-es-Stel ; El Mesrane ; Batna ; 

 JIauretania ! ! ; Pontus ; Sarepta ; Larnaca, Cyprus ; and Hi District, Turkestan. 

 On comparing these, one thing is at once clear : you must either lump them all as 

 races of one very variable species or else divide them into three species — two each 

 with several races and one {josephina) confined to the Mauretanian httoral and tell. 

 I consider, from the material at my disposal, that the question is not yet by any 

 means solved, though I consider all the facts point to there being three species ; but 

 I do not at all agree with Messrs. Oberthiir and Powell when they say that 

 splemlida is a Spanish species, while Algerian (i.e. Mauretanian) specimens all 

 belong to duhia. If this were the case, it would, on the contrary, go strongly to 

 prove them all to be races of a single species. I have, however, true splendida 

 from Algeria, Spain, and South Russia, and I have dubia from Algeria and 

 South Russia, so I feel certain in my own mind that splendida and dubia are two 

 distinct species. The case of josephina is somewhat different : first of all, the 

 name algirica Lucas will have to stand for it instead of josephina, as the latter 

 was given thirty-one years later ; then, if this insect were confined entirely to the 

 httoral, I should say it was only a very distinct race of dubia, but it is found at 

 Hammam R'ihra also, while we find splemlida also quite close at Bhda, therefore 

 I think it as well to keep it as a species, although a true duhia form has not j'et 

 come to fight from Blida and neighbourhood. 



Notes on Rambur's " Faune Entomologique de I'Andalousie." 



I need not apologise to my readers for including a bibUographical notice here, 

 because this work is httle known, and yet of immense importance in working out 

 Mauretanian lepidoptera. Mr. Oberthiir says that he beUevcs that copies of this 

 work containing all the text and all the plates that were pubhshed (for the work 

 was never completed) are at the present time unobtainable. He acknowledges 

 that his own is incomplete, though it was Rambur's presentation copy to Mr. A. 

 de Grashn. He gives the following collation of his copy : 



Text. Plates. 



Coleoplera, 144 pages. Coleoplera, 4 (Nos. 1, 2, 19, 20). 



Orthoptera, 96 pages. Orthoplera, 6 (Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7). 



Lepidoptera, pages 213-272 inclusive. Neuroptera. 1 (No. 9). 



Lepidoptera, 7 (Nos. 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 18). 



Hagen in his Bibliotheca Entomologica, vol. ii. p. 59 (1863) gives the year of 

 publication as 1842, and the number of parts issued as 4, and the collation as 

 follows : 



Text. Plates. 



Coleoplera, 144 pages. Coleoplera, 4. 



Dermaplera^ Neuroptera, 1. 



Orthoptera UlQ pages. Lepidoptera, 8. 



Hemiplera J Dermaplera-, 



Orthoptera 1 7. 

 , Hemiplera I 



