STAUDINGER AND REBEl's CATALOGUE. 265 



(1839); H.andWestd., '-BLifc. Moths," ii., p. loo(1844) ; Desv., " Zool.." iii., p. 842 

 (1845); Staud., " Cat.," p. 232 (1871).— Exp. alar. 8^-9 lin. Anterior wings brown 

 with darker and lighter clouds, a few blackish spots towards the base, then a 

 rather ilistinct irregular whitish fascia, extending from the costa towards tlie inner 

 margin, but vanishing before reaching the latter, and usually going off in a semi- 

 circle towards the apex of the costa, leaving a dusky costal patch ; on the 

 inner margin is a broad bright fulvous streak, and the elevated tuft of scales 

 is very pale, or whitish, fulvous; head, thorax and palpi ashy. New Forest, 

 (ireenhithe (Stephens). 



12. ab. ^ul^fulcuvittdnd, n. ab. (PI. vi., tig. (J). — Head, thorax and palpi light 

 yellowish-brown. Anterior wings of a rich warm brown, somewhat mottled with 

 darker, and darker towards the apex; abroad orange-coloured vitta, which extends 

 as a tine line right to the apex of the wing; a large reddish brown button, from 

 which a broad white marking extends up to the edge of the basal area ; posterior 

 wings light brown, deepening a little in colour towards the anal angle. The 

 marked difference between this ab. and tih. fulrurittaiid is, that the white marking 

 coming across the basal area finishes at the button, instead of continuing up again 

 to the marginal area. 



13. ab. .vantJiorittana, Desvignes, " Zool.," iii., p. 841 (184-5). — Similar to ab. 

 iniicoloranu and ab. alhoflaiiiinuna, but with a yellow or fulvous dash ; palpi, head, 

 and thorax of the same colour (Desvignes). 



14. ab. pro.iaiitliovittaiia, n. ab. (pi. vi., tig. 7). — Head, thorax, and palpi 

 light yellowish-brown. Anterior wings of a warm reddish-brown colour, the central 

 area perhaps a tritle lighter, with a very faint trace of a button in the centre of 

 wing, and a broad orange-coloured vitta from which a very tine orange line extends 

 along the margin to the apex, posterior wings light brown. The almost complete 

 absence of the button constitutes the inarked difference between this aberration and 

 ab. .raiitliovittdiui. 



1.5. ab. ^t rid 11(1, Haw., "Lep. Brit.," p. 413, no. Ol (l8ll) ; Eennie, "Conspec- 

 tus," p. 175 (1832); Stphs., "111. Haust.," iv., p. 149 (1834); Curt., "Brit. Ent.," 

 2nd ed., expl. pi. xvi., no. 4 (diite 1839) ; Wood, "Ind. Ent.," fig. 1048 (1839) ; H. 

 and Westd., '• Brit. Moths," ii., p. 1-53 (1844) ; Desv., " Zool.," iii., p. 843 (1845) ; 

 Staud., "Cat.," p. 232 (1871); 3rd ed., p. 79 (1901).— T. (The brown Button) alls 

 saturate-fuscis punctulis duobus posticis costalibus niveis ; altero magno medio, 

 aliis minutis posticis elevatis, thoraceque fuscis, striaque cinerea marginis 

 tenuioris. Exp. alar. 10 lin. Descriptio: Prsecedenti forte mera varietas, vel alter 

 sexus. Caput et palpi nivea. Thorax fuscus, nee niveus. Punctum elevatum 

 medio alarum anticarum punc-tulaque minuta transversa juxta angulum ani 

 fusca nee nivea. Stria lata marginis tenuioris cinerea nee albissima. Cetera ut 

 in priore (Ha worth). Birchwood, liipley, Norfolk, New Forest (Stephens). 



(I'o he concluded.) 



Staudinger and Rebel's Catalogue/'' 



[L'unti)U(c<l fyoiii p. 288.) 



The matter contained in the preface is of course entirely different 

 from that of 1871. In the previous catalogue, Staudinger had to define 

 his position with regard to the "law of priority" and its application 

 in various critical cases ; in the present one, we are simply told that 

 that position has not materially changed, and that indeed some 

 innovations which would have seemed desirable, to Rebel — rj/., some 

 recognition of a trinomial nomenclature — have been rendered 

 impossible by his " strong conservatism, especially in all nomencla- 

 torial (luestions ; " on similar grounds Rebel was unable to obtain the 

 introduction of any adecjuate generic synonymy, or of the important 

 indication in what genus each species was first published, ^'aried and 



* ••(.'dldlog dcr Lepidoptcren dca paldcarctischcn Fduiiciiuchictcs,'' von Dr. 

 Phil. O. Staudinger nnd Dr. Phil. H. Bebel. Dritte Autlage des " Cataloges des 

 europiiischen Faunengebietes." Berlin : H. Friedliinder und Sohn. Mai, 1901. 



I. Theil : Fam. I'dpilionidac-FJcpidUdae, von Dr. O. Staudinger und Dr. H. Rebel ; 



II. Theil: Fam. Fyrdlidac-Microptcrytjiddc, von Dr. H. Kebcl. xxxii-t-411-t-368 pp. 

 in 8vo. 



