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sounds) than those of the lake district of the north — Pararge 

 mcera, e. g. does not approach var. adrasta, nor Argynnis adippe 

 vaf . cleodoxa, or even intermedia. 



It will then be readily seen that such approaches to race 

 characters as can be given are merely indicative of a general 

 tendency, and cannot be applied to every individual ease. 

 Scandinavian specimens do not seem to differ greatly from 

 average English ones, but are rather lightly marked, and have 

 a shghtly paler ground colour ; these tendencies are rather 

 more strongly marked in specimens from the neighbourhood of 

 St. Petersburg, which are moreover rather larger. English 

 specimens are, as a rule, smaller than the plain form of Germany 

 and Switzerland, but rather larger than those found in the 

 mountains ; the latter are also in general somewhat more heavily 

 marked. In the lower Misox Valley, e.g. at Cama, a rather un- 

 usually bright form is found with a divided marginal blotch, and 

 I have already alluded to the form at Faido, in the Leventina, 

 where the elbowed line is so thickened as to bring to mind the 

 var. mehadiensis of South-eastern Hungary ; the Leventina 

 form is, however, rather small. The Hungarian form just men- 

 tioned is, on the other hand, large as well as brilliant in ground 

 colour, and heavily marked. This form is exaggerated in Bul- 

 garia, and except as to size in Bosnia ; the borders being some- 

 times so broad as scarcely to show the fulvous lunules, thus 

 approaching deione var. herisalensis ; this form is very fine and 

 striking. The form from Bukowina, on the contrary, is small, 

 heavily marked and dull, and, notwithstanding the shape of the 

 wings, I should have taken it for a form of dictymioides had it 

 not been for the biological distinctions given by Hormuzaki 

 (vol. xlii. p. 6). I have seen nothing from Spain which bears 

 out Staudinger's description of var. iberica ; four of the six 

 specimens so labelled at the present moment in the National 

 Collection are certainly parthenie, of a rather usual form, and 

 the other two, though not heavily marked, are not paler in 

 ground colour nor larger than usual. The females from the 

 Pyrenees have a lighter ground colour, but are smaller than 

 the average, as are the males, and both sexes are also rather 

 heavily shaded with black. 



ON TWO OF FEED. SMITH'S SPECIES OF JAPANESE 



ICHNEUMONID^. 



By Claude Morley, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



Through the generosity of Mr. A. E. Wileraan, the British 

 Museum has just acquired the second known specimen of Pimpla 

 luchiosa, Smith (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 394). I have examined 

 the type, brought forward by Smith in his "Descriptions of New 



