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the Entomological Society of London. We should be glad of any 

 details with regard to the variation of these species that any of our 

 readers can give us. 



There can be no doubt that the polonns of Zeller, referred by Staudin- 

 ger to Af/riades bellaryiis as a variety, is really a hybrid between A<iria<les 

 coridon and A. thftis {hellargns). There is, besides Zeller's original 

 type, another specimen from the " Leech coll." in the British Museum 

 coll., our own example captured at Cuxton in May, 1898, etc. We 

 believe that Lowe's A. coridon var. calydonum is also to be referred here, 

 and other examples that have given their captors trouble. We merely 

 note this in the hope that anyone who has specimens taken with A. 

 thetis {bellarnKn) in the spring, but looking like^. coridon, yet of approxi- 

 mately bellarf I m-co\o\iv, will communicate with us. Of course, we are not 

 here talking of the blue races of A . coridon taken in Spain and Asia Minor. 



(DBITUARY. 



Lajos Aigner=Abafi. 



Born 1840, Died June 19th, 1909. 



It was at Buda-Pest Museum, during the early days of June, 1907, 

 that I first made the acquaintance of the late Herr Lajos Aigner-Abafi, 

 one of the greatest if not the chief authority upon the macro-lepidop- 

 tera of Hungary. The trouble he took in showing me (then a perfect 

 stranger to him) all the specimens in the collection which he thought 

 would interest me, created a deep impression ; his kindness was limit- 

 less, and all the moments he could spare from the museum were placed 

 at my disposal, and the pleasant rambles I had with him m the 

 neighbourhood of Buda-Pest w'ill always remain in my memory as 

 some of my brightest entomological excursions ; but I became better 

 acquainted with the character of this keen naturalist on the two 

 occasions I visited Peszer, the grand collecting ground about 30 miles 

 from Buda-Pest. His enthusiasm was unbounded, for, after having 

 wandered through the forest for many many hours, and arriving at 

 the inn fairly fatigued, I remember Herr Aigner exclaiming, " I must 

 be off again," and so he went returning long after dusk with a box 

 full of interesting lepidoptera. On the occasion of my second visit to 

 Peszer, he accompanied me, but I had to return to Buda-Pest the same 

 night ; Herr Aigner, however, determined to remain, saying, "Here lam 

 among a grand number of lepidoptera, and here T intend to remain." 

 We parted, and we never met again. 



He contributed, I believe, frequently to the Hungarian periodicals, 

 and I have before me a paper written by him, " Schmetterlings- 

 Aberrationen aus der Samnilung des Ungarischen National 

 Museums," a most interesting publication with various illustrations of 

 the principal varieties in the Museum. 



He will be greatly missed by a large circle of friends, and especially 

 at the Museum, whose collection he so dearly loved, more so, it seemed, 

 than his own, rich and interesting as it was. 



In his home life he was genial in the extreme, and Frau Aigner 

 shares the same quality. 



For some time after my return to England, I kept up a correspond- 

 ence with Herr Aigner, but long intervals of silence augured some 

 ailment and the end which has come at last. — A.H.J. 



