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cnridon was common, a largish race, and here again I took more 

 females than males. Only three specimens of P. thetis were captured 

 and all were of an abnormal blue colour with mal-developed scales. I 

 took a single I', cscheri (worn) also of an abnormal colour, and like- 

 wise a single pretty, minute female of F. liylaa. ScnlitcDitides put in an 

 appearance with a pair of S. baton, and I also saw one N. orion but 

 failed to catch it, I feel sure it was orion, but of course I admit the 

 doubt attaching to an uncaptured Lyc£enid. Again a single female 

 Lycaeiwpsis arniulus made its home in one of my boxes and this closes 

 the list of " Blues," 



The Hesperiidae were far from common. I took a nice little series 

 of Urhicola comma, two llesperia fritillinii (cirsii) and one H. sao. 



This list is a very meagre record for Mont Ventoux, but my 

 distance was too great from the scene of action, and I should judge 

 that the only really satisfactory method of adequately working the 

 locality (unless you had a motor-car) would be to camp out on the 

 mountain near one of the very few water holes. It would then be 

 possible to do justice to the district, which I should much like to visit 

 again, were it feasible to adopt this method. 



On August 17th we had to turn our faces towards the home 

 country and thus ended a very delightful holiday, during which we 

 experienced many and continued kindnesses from across the Channel, 

 the " Entente Cordiale " being so far as we experienced of certainly 

 the most cordial nature. 



I must not close however without expressing my best thanks to my 

 colleague Mr. Wheeler for kindly going through my Mditaea and 

 naming them up for me, and also to Mr. Rowland-Brown for the same 

 kindly help with the genus Hesperia. 



During the whole two months absence we had glorious and 

 uninterrupted sunshine. I believe that two short showers summed up 

 the only rain we had. 



Seasonal Polymorphism and Races of some European Grypocera 

 and Rhopalocera. 



By ROGER VERITY, M.D. ^y iV 

 {CoHtiiiued from vol. xxxiii., imge H^.) ' 

 Melitaea didyiiia, Esp., race romana, Calberla, and second genera- 

 ROMUtA, mihi. — In my summary of the races and seasonal dimorphism 

 of this species, in the Knt. Rec, xxxi., p. 179, I used the name of 

 ramaiia for the second generation of my race protea from Tuscany. 

 Staudinger gave romana as a synonym oipersea, Koll. Seitz remarked 

 that this was quite a mistake and he used the name for the individuals 

 of the second brood of southern Europe, which resemble persea, 

 together with that of ilalinatina, Stdgr. In my Italian paper on the 

 Mainarde Mts. (see p. 171) I have already stated at page 59 that, 

 having procured Calberla's original description, I discovered both 

 Staudinger and Seitz have made a blunder. He clearly says his 

 typical series was collected at Monte Rotondo, m. 165, in May and 

 June and he describes in a most perfect manner the first generation of 

 the Komn.n race, which is difl'erent from the Tuscan jyrotca in being of 

 a lighter fulvous and lessextensively marked with black. 1 remarked that 

 dalniatina is no doubt the second generation of race meiidionalis, Stdgr., 



