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syllables to show various relationships, i.e., f. norma = normal form, 

 2 /'. = female form, etc. In addition they suggest that it be invariably 

 understood that the third name in order be the subspecific name unless 

 otherwise stated and needs no abbreviated term attached. 



Applying the above terminology to the name Zi/i/aena carniolica 

 appcnnina calabrica intermedia cini/nlata, it is possible that the following 

 is a solution, although no one but the author can presume a knowledge 

 of the exact intention. Anthmcera [Zi/f/aena) carniolica, sub. sp. 

 appenina, race calabrica, var. intermedia, ah. ciwjidata. Again Euchloe 

 bellezina insularis sardoa praecox should possibly mean Euchloe ta<iis, 

 sub. sp. insularis, race sardoa, var. or ab. praecox. But what Pieris 

 brassicae brassicae brassicae or Fapilio podalirius maura podalirius 

 signifies is beyond anyone but the author to translate. 



There will always be the difficulty of fitting every new fact to our 

 scheme of terms on account of the constant occurrence of overlapping, 

 yet if the use of such a code of varietal indication be insisted on, so 

 much the greater \n\\ be the ease with which we, as readers and 

 students, can understand the writings of the specialists whose work 

 necessitates the interpretation of the above signs. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Dr. Verity's Revision of the Linnean types. — It is a most 

 unfortunate circumstance, though one for which of course the author 

 is in no way to blame, that Dr. Verity's paper on the Palnsarctic 

 Rhopalocera in the Linnean collection should come into the hands of 

 so many entomologists without the criticism by Dr. Jordan that 

 accompanies it in the Transactions of the Linnean Society. This 

 criticism robs the paper of much of its sting because it robs it of much 

 of its importance, showing, as it does, that the primary data are really 

 insufficient in most cases to serve as a basis for such violent changes 

 as are suggested, and that in some cases at any rate the conclusions 

 are demonstrably incorrect. I shall hope shortly to be able to treat 

 this paper critically in detail, so will now only express a hope that no 

 systematic entomologists will jump to the conclusion that these 

 changes must all (or even mostly) be accepted without thorough 

 examination, or indeed, without a distinct pronouncement from the 

 International Committee. I cannot, however, refrain from recording 

 at once my complete agreement with one at least of Dr. Verity's 

 conclusions, of the truth of which I have been convinced for years, 

 namely that it is, from any point of view, impossible to retain idas, as 

 the name of Rambur's Spanish Lyc^enid, the full cogency of the 

 reasons for which is hardly brought out by Dr. Verity, possibly 

 because he regarded them as so very obvious. — George Wheeler, 

 37, Gloucester Place, W. 



:ig^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



CoLiAS edusa, etc., NEAR BoGNOR. — ^On August 15th, while spending 

 a fortnight at Bognor, I saw two Colias edusa one in fine condition, the 

 other much worn, a Pijrameis cardui, and P. atalanta. There were 

 plenty of traces of Smerinthus ocellatus larvae, but apparently all had 

 gone down. On August 5th, near Goodwood, the larvas of Cucullia, 



