A CHAPTER ON ZYG2ENA MINOS. 57 



Since I now cannot distinguish which of my specimens were 

 bred from these Ip.rvae, and possess no specimens agreeing 

 with Bering's species, I must formerly have entirely dis- 

 regarded the differences in the earlier stages. 



To a similar inquiry sent to Herr Freyer, the answer had 

 come, — These were the ordinary Zyg. Minos. In order to 

 attain certainty with regard to this species, I begged Pro- 

 fessor Hering to lend me his stock of the doubtful species, 

 and also his Pomeranian Zytjcema Minos. He was so good 

 as to comply with my wish, and at the same time sent me 

 au Augsburg specimen. The latter is at any rate the true 

 Minos, which Freyer has figured, which does not differ from 

 the Glogau specimens, and which has no more accordance 

 with Bering's species than any ordinary specimen of Minos. 

 Professor Hering wrote me word that he had still two spe- 

 cimens of his species left, and sent them to me. Un- 

 fortunately I removed them from their box, and placed them 

 am.ongst the specimens of the true Mhio^ belonging to him ; 

 and since several of the latter are unlabelled, I can no longer 

 distinguish the second specimen, also accidentally unlabelled, 

 since none possesses the peculiarities of the supposed new 

 species. 



This circumstance has removed, in my judgment, a great 

 deal of the confidence which it would have, if, as the words 

 in Bering's letter imports, two specimens were in the parcel 

 agreeing with the pair received a long time ago. 



Be now the reason what it may, that precisely the un- 

 labelled specimen can no longer be distinguished from the 

 ordinary Z. Minos, yet this is certain, that the labelled male 

 and the pair previously sent to me agree sufficiently in their 

 characters and differ sufficiently from Z. Minos to render it 

 j>robably a truly distinct species. Should this be confirmed, 

 1 would propose for the species the name of Zygceaa Seringi, 



