170 THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S RECORD. 



mobogany coloured patch and the hindwings thickly shaded with dark 

 scaling ; these characters the Linnean specimens possess to a high 

 dejifree, so that there is no mistaking them for the races from the 

 rest of Europe, for which I have suggested the name nihiarh, g^nd in 

 which all have in common a tawny underside to the forewings iind, 

 usually, light-coloured hindwings. 



I have thus tried to clear the points in which I had been misinter- 

 preted by my critics and to correct a few others in which they seem to 

 me to have been inaccurate. The alterations in nomenclature I have 

 suggested are, I agree, very drastic ; they have already excited the 

 wrath of some entomologists and met with the approval of others. I 

 must leave it to a jury of authorities to give its verdict on the subject ! 



Lepidopterology '. 



By T. A. CHAPMAN, M.D. 



This Volume is prefaced by a statement of the "eminent honour " 

 conferred on the author by the Academic dcs Sciences in awardmg the 

 Cuvier prize for 1913, "a M. Charles Obertliiir, de Rcnnen, pour les 

 Etudes d'Entomologie et les Etudes de Lepidopterologie comparee," 

 with an expression of the author's gratitude and encouragement. 



The first paper is by M. Oberthur on the South American Apaturas, 

 dealing with 25 species, with ten plates containing 37 figures. The 

 next treats of the Lepidoptera of the Sino-Thebetau region, with 38 

 figures on seven plates, largely of new species and new forms 

 described. A new Castnia from Uruguay has a place on the last plate. 

 We then arrive at the further elucidation of the Lepidoptera of 

 California described by Boisduval ; these are Melitaeids, Argynnids and 

 Satyrids, with 39 figures on seven plates, on the last plate is also a 

 figure of a var. of Pieris bras.slcae, vasquezi, Obtb., J , and on the 

 same plate is a figure of Boisduval's specimen of i'arnassiiis noinion 

 from Eschscholtz, Alaska ''close to the Arctic circle). The figure 

 certainly seems to show a specimen of P. noiuion. The labels on the 

 specimen say "California," "Eschscholtz, Calif, russe." Russian 

 California is Alaska, and is in a dift'erent latitude from California as 

 now understood, though the latter is quoted as the habitat of this 

 specimen by various authors. A new Syrichthus, S. i/iacdomwufiiri, 

 Obth., is also figured on this plate, from Arizona. 



An interesting paper by Standfuss follows, on hybrid Sinerinthiis, a 

 hybrid, lenniae, Stdfs., between tiliae and ocellatiis, first described by 

 Standfuss in the Annales de la Sac. Ent. Fr. for 1901 (p. 86), is here 

 figured, as also hybrid neojialaearctica, Stdfs., between ocellata and 

 excaecata, Abbot and Smith (described by Stdfuss. in 1907). Further 

 hybrids of the genus L'elerio are also figured, as well as species of the 

 genus Epistor. 



There is next a paper on the further work that has been done in 

 regard to the variation in At/lia tan, since the preceeding papers in 

 the third volume of the Lcjiidopteroloj/ie comparee. M. Oberthur 

 illustrates certain points b)^ comparison with species {a species ?) of 

 the American genus Pseiid(dia::if!, with two plates, and also six plates 



* Etudes de L&pidopUrologie comparie, par Charles Oberthur. Fasc. IX 



(2nd Parti e). 



