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locality, received from Hofer, and I find that all the other characters 

 given by Ochsenheinier describe it admirably ; broader wings than in 

 northern races, darker colouring, as in }iia(/)ial/iiiia, " black border of 

 hindwing broadens at the angle." As to the red bands, one of my 

 males does correspond exactly to the form usually called y)^(^*, but the 

 rest are only transitions to it, and Ochsenheimer's words fit them 

 much better than they do this form. I conclude that this author never 

 had in mind the individual form to which his name has been arbitrarily 

 given, and that he meant his inclusive description for the entire 

 race of the region mentioned. Original descriptions must be taken as 

 they stand and the totality of their meaning must be taken into 

 account when applying the name they refer to. We must, however, 

 note that, taken in this sense, jtluto next falls before ininos, Schiff., 

 also described from Vienna. I suggest the name of plutonia for the 

 individual form described above, independently of the race it may 

 be found in. 



Race BosNiACA, Burgeff {Mitt. Munchner Knt. Ges., V., p. 48, tav. v., 

 fig. 1-3 (1914). 1 am not acquainted with this race, described from 

 the Vlasic Mts., m. 1800, in Bosnia. It is described as " larger and 

 more thickly scaled than pliito, 0., of the Eastern Alps and having a 

 darker appearance," the median red band of forewing extends towards 

 the margin ; the male has a marginal dark band on hindwing ; the 

 females are dusted with grey. 



Race NOKMANNA, mihi. This name I propose for the peculiar little 

 race of Northern France, which Oberthiir has noticed and described at 

 length {l''t. Up. Comp., iv., p. 425) and of which I have received a 

 series of Pont-de-l'Arche (Eure) from L. Dupont. It is one of the 

 smallest races of this species; the dark scaling has a more brilliant 

 indigo gloss than in an}' other race, in the male, and a silvery one in 

 in the female ; the red is not very saturated and it is limited in extent, 

 the bands being distinctly separated from each other and short, so that 

 the anterior, or subcostal one, ends at the level at which the median 

 one begins ; examples transitional to form interrupta, Stdgr., are thus 

 quite frequent. The most peculiar character of this race, however, 

 consists in the way in which, in the great majority of individuals, the 

 median band is shaped at its further end : before the second median 

 nervure it is quite as short and ends as abruptly as in form plutonia; 

 instead, between this nervure and the first cubital or, in other words, 

 on both sides of the third median, it extends outwardly in a lonji^ pro- 

 jection, sometimes nearly as far as the outer margin. In my paper on 

 Zyijat'iia plipendidae, L., I have pointed out that this particular 

 character in the pattern of the piirpiiralis group shows the origin of the 

 sixth spot in the former, making it particularly interesting. I think 

 that here, as in other cases, the local race, with its various distinctive 

 features, should receive one name and another should be given to the 

 form exhibiting the last characteristic mentioned, so that it can be used 

 to designate the individuals of the other races in which it is met with 

 not uncommonly. The name of IxVcisa seems suited, because the red 

 projection described is due to a more or less deep incision of the dark 

 marginal band in the atrophied zone, as explained in the aforesaid 

 paper. 



Race JURAE, mihi. My large series of specimens, collected at 

 13ombresson, m. 1000, in the Jura, by the late and much regretted 



