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two specimens of Pohjoinwatus hijlaft that I saw, and on the 23rd my 

 sole Citpido sebrus : all came from the north road, and all might 

 equally well have come from the Rhone Valley, though they were a 

 little smaller than the average of the latter locaHty; all were J s. On 

 the 22nd I also saw in a garden in the town the only Gonejitcryx 

 deopatra that put in an appearance during my long stay. On the 

 23rd I found to my great surprise, in one of my boxes on my return 

 from the north road, a specimen of Hirsiitina dolus, which I had 

 boxed under the impression that it was a light Agriades coridon, with- 

 out paying any special attention to it. This naturally set me off in 

 search of more ; it proved however to be scarce, and I only took six 

 more during my stay, viz., one on July 26th, two on August 

 2nd, and three, including a 2 , on August 3rd ; possibly it may have 

 become commoner later, but August 4th and 5th were streaming wet 

 days, and on Au^ist 6th we left. All these specimens came from the 

 north road, and all within a mile or less of the Porta Pernici ; I saw 

 none elsewhere. It was on July 22nd that I took my only $ 

 Vobjommatus melear/er, and my only Folt/i/onia c-albn>ii, also my first 

 specimens of Af/riades coridon at Assisi, as well as the earliest Hippar- 

 chia hriaeis these two species soon became common, as did Satyrus 

 hennione on the cemetery road and elsewhere. 



(To be concluded). 



Depressaria putridella, Schiff. — A species new to Britain {nith 



two jilatea). 

 (Continued from p. 223.) 

 By ALFRED SICH, F.E.S. 



Variation. — This species is evidently subject to a large amount of 

 variation, especially in the ground colour, and in the amount of develop- 

 ment of the dark markings on the forewings. Besides the type, there 

 are three other forms quite distinct in their fullest development, but 

 all connected with the type by intermediate forms. 



a. Ground colour pale ochreous-brown, the cell and veins strongly marked in 

 iuseous =2'>utridella, Schiff. 



b. Forewings and fringes almost unicolorous dark brown, the veins 

 indicated in fuscous, but not conspicuously (Stt., Nat. Hist., vol. xii., pi. vi., fig. 

 3m). Germany, Stt. coll., Brit. Mus.=ab. brunnea, n. ab. 



c. Forewings, except base and basal portion of the costa, entirely suffused with 

 blackish-brown. On the costa towards the apex, are a few pale dashes. The 

 stigmata and the dark veins almost obliterated by the dark suffusion = var. peuceia- 

 nella. Mill. 



The specimen above described is a ? in British Museum coll., and 

 labelled " peucedanella. Mill., n. sp., Golfe Juan. Constant. H.82." 

 There is also a very dark $ without pale costal dashes, from the same 

 source. There are also specimens from Staudinger from the south of 

 France, but, though they belong to this form, they are not so dark, and 

 the usual markings are quite visible. This appears to be the usual 

 southern form, and is distinctly different from the type. Through 

 the kindness of Dr. Chapman I have at last been able to see Milliere's 

 figures and descriptions of this species given in the Annalea de 

 la Societe des sciences naturelles, d'c, de Cannes for 1880. This 

 volume I was quite unable to consult at any of the London libraries. 

 The following is Milliere's description of var. peucedanella : " Enver- 



