6 THK entomologist's RECORD. 



July 27th, 1912. 



Protection of Parnassius apollo, L., vap. melliculus, Stich, in 



THE ObERPFALZ. 



By Prof. Dr. A. Spuler, Erlangen. 



At the suggestion of the Kegensburg Protection Society (Verein 

 fiir Natui'schutzpflege), the councils of Stadtamhof, Parsberg and 

 Burglengenfeld (Bavaria) have prohibited for three years the present 

 inconsiderate wholesale capture of the beautiful ajiuUn. The by-law 

 of Burglengenfeld runs as follows : — 



To the Local Police Authorities : — /<V the ilistrict I'olice rc'inla- 

 tion for the iirotection of the A/iollo batteilti/. 



Below follows a copy of the district police regulation for- the 

 protection of the Apollo butterfly, issued on September 2nd, 1911, 

 Avith tlie government resolution of the 6th of the previous month, 

 No. 23818, putting it in force, with the request to publish this regula- 

 tion immediately in the district in the usual form (see Ministerial- 

 Resolution, May 28th, 18G2, Regierungsblatt S. 925). The fulfilment 

 of this order is to be notified here vitlnn 10 dai/a. The following 

 description of the Apollo butterfly and its caterpillar is to be brought 

 to public notice by affixing copies on the parish notice boards. (Then 

 follows the description). 



District Police Eegulation.^ — The Council of Burglengenfeld 

 issues the following District Police Regulation according to articles 4 

 and 22b, Section II., of the Police penalties book for the district of 

 Burglengenfeld. 



The capture of the butterfly Apollo {runiassius apollo), and the 

 collection of the caterpillars of this butterfly is prohibited. Excepting 

 the capture or collection of single specimens for scientific purposes by 

 persons provided with and carrying a license issued by the district 

 council. Disregard of this regulation will be punished by a fine up to 

 150 Marks (£7 10s. Od.), or imprisonment. Burglengenfeld, August 

 2nd, 1911. 



Tt) the Local School Authorities. — Be District Police Fieindation 

 for the jirotection of the A/ioUo biittertii/. The local school authorities 

 will see to it that the above printed district police regulation, of the 

 2nd of the previous month, prohibiting the capture of the Apollo 

 butterfiy, and the collection of the caterpillar about April, shall be 

 particularly impressed on the school children. Bui'glengenfeld, 

 September" 19tb, 1911. 



It would be desiral)le if /'. a/iollo were to be protected also in the 

 southern Black Forest district at Randen, and in the Hohgau where its 

 existence is, in places, already threatened. It has years ago been 

 exterminated on the further Schlossberg, near Freiburg in Breisgau. 

 The remarkable decline in numbers of apollo in Fninkish Switzerland 

 has been proved by Julius Stephan in the Zeitschrift der Deidschen 

 Xatiiririssenfichaftlichen (iesellschaft, and at the same time the 

 authorities were appealed to to declare the district in a legal manner 

 as a Reserve against collectors. 



