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years, he saw them abundantly between the second and third railway 

 bridges on the right bank of the Rio Miele. This river, which is only 

 a short kilometre long, collects its waters in the cork woods of the 

 Sierra de la Luna, the most southern of the Spanish mountains, and 

 flows into the haven of Algeciras, in the bay of Gibraltar. 



Monsieur Obeithiir has determined Count Turati's specimen as 

 being Panaia borboni'-a var. holli, Obth., which he had previously 

 described from Algerian specimens sent home by Captain E. HoUfrom 

 the province of Hussein Dey, captured at the end of October. The 

 variety seems to differ from the type which occurs in Madagascar, 

 Bourbon, and Sierra Leone, by being smaller, and in the reduction in 

 size of the three white points edged with black, on the underside of 

 the hindwings. Monsieur Oberthiir's notes on the subject will be 

 found on pp. 363-5 of vol. iv. of Etudes de Lepidopterohxjie Comparee, 

 and there are two figures on Plate LX. in the next volume of the same 

 work. Herr Kriiger's Spanish record adds a very interesting species to 

 our European butterfly fauna, and English entomologists who intend 

 visiting the south of Spain during the coming season should be on 

 the look-out for it. — A. E. Gibbs (F.E.S.), St. Albans, Herts. 



Another new European Butterfly. — Dr. Chapman is still 

 pursuing his investigations into the more obscure species of the 

 Lycaenidae. In the Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud., Part iv., page 662, 

 he discusses " An unrecognised European Lycaena, identified as 

 Ayriades thersitea (Boisd. MSS.) Cantener," illustrating his remarks 

 by live plates. Almost from its first recognition this species has 

 been confused with Polyoiinnatns icariis ab. icariniDi, which it both 

 closely resembles and associates with on the same ground, but from 

 which it is generically distinct in its genitalia. The species seems 

 to be comparatively a southern one. So far the distribution is 

 outlined only by the specimens which he, Dr. Chapman, has had in 

 review. Savoy, Dauphiny and Provence in France ; Piedmont, Piceno 

 and Siena in Italy ; Tragacete, Albarracin and Barcelona in Spain ; 

 Syria, Persia and Central Asia ; Trelex, Ollon and Visp in the Rhone 

 Valley ; and two more northern localities Weimar and Saxony. 

 In his researches Dr. Chapman has brought into notice an interesting 

 work published in Paris in IbSl, hist. Nat. des Lep. lihup. oh Pap. 

 diur. des depart, des Rant- et Bas-Ithiu, de la Moselle, de la Meurthe et 

 des Vusyes, Par L. P. Cantener, Avocat, ex-Prof, ci I'ecole de Sorege. 

 This book is well illustrated by a series of capital plates. — H.J.T. 



A Gynandromorph of Parnassius delius. — Carl Hold figures and 

 describes a striking gynandromorph of P. deli us in the Int. Ent. Zeit. 

 of March 22nd. It was captured sitting on the foodplant on 

 July 10th, 1911, near the Naret Pass, in S. Tessin. While the two 

 left wings are quite of the pure white of the male butterfly with only 

 a few black markings, the right wings show the typical form of the 

 female with much extended black markings, especially pronounced in 

 the eyespots of the hindwings. The two wings on the right side are 

 larger, the eyespots are larger and more distinct than those on the left 

 side. The forewings possess the usual red costal spots on both sides, 

 except that on the underside of the right wing is a second red spot, as 

 is usual in the $ . Also on the inner margin of the underside of the 

 right hindwing is a large red spot, which is wholly wanting on the 

 left. The abdomen is male. — H.J.T. 



