XOVITATES ZOOLOGICAB XXIV. 1917. 393 



SUPPLEMENTAL NOTES TO MR. CHARLES OBERTHtJR'S 

 FAUNE DBS LEPIDOPTERES DE LA BARBARIE, WITH 

 LISTS OF THE SPECIMENS CONTAINED IN THE TRING 

 MUSEUM. 



{Continued from p. 373.) 

 By LORD ROTHSCHILD, F.R.S., Ph.D. 



DREFANIDAi:. 



[Drepana binaria (Hufn,). 



MR. OBERTHUR, while stating that hinaria uncinida Borkh. is not only 

 found in Algeria but also in the south of Europe, seems to hint that in 

 Mauretania the form uncinula and its extreme ora?iaJta Strand with intermediates 

 are all that occur. The Tring Museum possesses 29 Mauretanian examples and 

 not a single one is uncinula.. The example taken by Dr. Jordan and myself at 

 Guelt-es-Stel is a very large and strongly characterised oranaria ; 1 Guelt-es- 

 Stel taken by Faroult and 5 taken by him at Ain I raham are pale yellowish 

 brown ; 2 taken near Alger by ourselves, 2 taken at Tala Rana by Dr. Nissen, 

 and 3 taken at Ain Draham by Faroult are brownish-cinnamon colour ; while 

 15 from Ain Draham are more or less intermediate between the two last. This 

 strong variation in Mauretania would lead me to consider all the forms of 

 hinaria as simply individual aberrations of a highly variable species, but the 

 fact remains that the brownish-orange form found in the northern parts of 

 Europe is apparently absent from the Mediterranean regions, so for the present 

 I shall retain the southern form as a subspecies under the name of uncin^da.^^ 



109. Drepana binaria uncinula (Borkh.). 



Phalatna uncinula Borkhauscn, Sysl. Bcschr. Europ. Schmett. vol. iii. p. 401 {1790) (Italy). 



This insect appears to be rare in Mauretania ; we have only taken three 

 ourselves. 



2 Guelt-es-Stel, April 1912-1913, W. R., K. J., and Faroult. 



2 Environs d'Alger, February— May 1908, W. R., E. H., and K. J. 



2 Tala Rana, September 1910, Dr. Nissen. 



23 Ain Draham, July — August 1911, Faroult. 



110. Cilix glaucata glaucata (Scop.). 



Phalatna glaucata Scopoli, Entom. Cam. p. 221 (1763) (C'arniolia). 



I have no specimens from Mauretania in which the glaucous smear is \\ant- 

 ing as shown by Mr. Oberthiir. 



1 Masser Mines, June 1914, Faroult. 



2 Hammam Meskoutine, April 1914, W. R. and K. J. 



3 Souk Ahras, April 1914, W. R. and K. J. 



I mentioned in my introductory notes to the first part of this article that 

 it was very disconcerting to find in the middle of a Fauna of Barbary the 



