28 NOTES, ETC. ON EUROPEAN BUTTERFLIES. 



I find a paper on Colias by M. Guenee. On the authority of 

 specimens of Colias Boothii received from Mr. Doubleday, 

 he affirms the total distinctness of this species from C. Hecla : 

 an opinion which I have long advocated, and brought before 

 the notice of Entomologists at every opportunity (vide ante; 

 and Man. Eur. Butt. p. 17). He gives C. CAf owe of Curtis 

 as a variety of C. Boothii, and cites Herrich-S chaffer, fig. 

 459, 460, doubtfully, as a variety of C. Hecla ? . 



With regard to this figure, I have seen specimens of a 

 Colias very like it in the British Museum, which is very 

 rich in polar species of Colias, though, unfortunately, this 

 collection has never been properly studied. I therefore 

 think it highly probable that Herrich-Schaffer's insect will 

 eventually prove to be an additional species. To show the 

 total ignorance prevalent on the Continent with regard to 

 Colias Boothii, it is only necessary to quote a passage 

 from Wallengren,"Lepidoptera Scandinaviae-Rhopalocera," 

 p. 140, in which he says, after telling us that Herrich- 

 Schaffer's figs. 39, 40, cannot possibly belong to C. Boothii 

 {Hecla), " Possibly these remarkable figures belong to 

 C. Chione, a species unknown to me." 



