NOTES ON COLLECTING. 279 



T. theopJira>ttiis is a well known and widely distributed species in North 

 Africa, but the few undoubted specimens that have been taken in the 

 extreme south and south-east of Spain led one to suppose, previous to 

 the present record, that the species was probably mi<(ratory and doubt- 

 fully native. Staudinger's Catalogue, the 1902 edition, gives Spain 

 south, as a locality, without details. Undoubtedly the best authority 

 on this species in Spain is Carl Ribbe's LepidD/iteren Fauna ran Amla- 

 lusien, 1909-12, an exceedingly careful treatise on its subject, and 

 which deals with the distribution in Spain of all species occurring in 

 Andalusia. Ribbe says of this species, " at Algeciras I obtained two 

 worn specimens on the seashore at the commencement of April. 1905, 

 as I was going towards the landing stage of the Gibraltar steamer ; 

 Staudinger gives Hispania, and Korb writes me that be has taken 

 T. theoiihrastits in Murcia in April, on a thornbush." The latter record 

 evidently refers to a single specimen, and we are thus reduced to the 

 small number of three examples, about which there should not be 

 much doubt; but it is to be noted that Ribbe says his specimens were 

 ivorn, and I am not by any means certain that it is possible to dis- 

 tinguish in all cases irnrn examples of this species from the vastly 

 more abundant (in Spain) T. telicanus. The latter species is of course 

 widely distributed in Spain. Mr. Jones and I found it commonly in 

 May, 1913, at Albarracin, and it is interesting to note that Dr. Chap- 

 man mentions in J'ransactiom Knt. Soc. Ijowhm, 1907, p. 161, that he 

 found " Lycaena telicaniis abundant in all stages except the pupa" in 

 north-west Spain. 



2. On page 190 Mr. Muschamp says, " In the same meadow I took 

 three Arm/nnis adi/ipe xavwleodnxa, and expect I might have taken plenty 

 more." This was at Puente de los Fierros. So far as I am aware these 

 are the first recorded var. deodo.ra from Spain or Portugal. There is 

 of course a form of adijipe which is widely distributed in Spain without 

 silver on the underside, and which is thus a parallel form to var. 

 cleodo.va. This form has, however, not the ochreous ground colour 

 underside of the central European var. clcudaj-a, but it is simply an 

 unsilvered form of the typical Spanish A. adippe var. cldorodippe, and 

 it has, like this, the underside of all the wings green in ground colour. 

 This is the ab. deodippe of Stgr., and it occurs freely with var. cldoro- 

 dippe in certain localities in Spain. Dr. Chapman says, Transactions 

 Ent. Soc. London, 1907, p. 161, he found in N.W. Spain "J. adippe 

 rather eldorodippe than type form, but not so marked as in Central 

 Spain," whilst 1 have one example of ab. deodippe, taken at La Granja 

 in 1905, which has less green on the underside than usual, but it is 

 not var. deodn.ca by any means. 



3. On page 189 j\Ir. Muschamp records from Puente de los Fierros, 

 Aijriadiis coridon var. (tlhicans. This form of A. coridan is of course 

 abundant in many localities in Andalusia, and is especially attached to 

 the environs of the city of Granada, but I very much doubt, in spite of 

 Staudinger's Catalogue, which states that it is found in Arragon, if it 

 has ever been found hitherto elsewhere. I have not much doubt but 

 that Staudinger's authority is the Catalofpi de los lepidnptems dc la 

 Provincia de Teruel, by Bernardo Zapater and Maxamiliano Korb, which 

 states, " Lijcaena conjdon var. alhicans, Albarracin, on the sunny banks, 

 July, rare." I have seen and captured a great number of A. cnriiinn at 

 Albarracin, but there were none of them that could be called var. 



