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to my mind usually the best authority, even to-day, on the 
specific differences of the Blues and Skippers. In Central 
Algeria lorquinnit replaces minimus altogether (cp. Nov. 
‘ Zool.,’ xxi, 1914, p. 310), and in the South of Spain, e.g. at 
Grenada. | 
[Nomiades celestina.—Milliere’s failure to identify the sup- 
posed examples taken by him and others in the Lantosque Valley 
with N. semiargus is inexplicable, the more so in view of his 
figures (‘ Iconographie,’ fasc. iii, pl. 154). The first announce- 
ment of this South Russian Blue in the Alpes-Maritimes is made 
without comment in the ‘ Petites Nouvelles Entomologiques’ 
(vol. i, p. 256) in a short disquisition on the lepidoptera of the 
locality where Milliére was collecting in July and August, 1872. 
An amplified account follows in the ‘ Iconographie’ (fase. iii, 
p- 441), but from the figures alone if is clear that a mistake was 
made, which some subsequent writers accordingly have accepted, 
and repeat: A comparison of Milliere’s charming figures with 
the Sarepta specimens in my collection reveals obvious superficial 
differences, and the series captured by Mr. Sheldon and Mr. 
A. H. Jones in May, 1914, correspond fairly well with Lang’s 
figures. The blue of the Lantosque semiargus, however, is 
neither the bright true blue of the Russian examples, nor the 
velvety mazarine of the butterfly, alas, no longer to be numbered 
of the British fauna. Itis that of a not uncommon upland form 
of semiargus. | 
N. cyllarus.—Variable as usual, and several forms occur at 
Cannes, notably ab. blachieri, Millicre; the type specimens 
were taken by him here in 1867 (‘Ann. Soc. Ent. France,’ 
1887, 215). 
N. melanops.—Variable in size. 
Agriades corydon.—Males greyish silvery blue, May 1st, 1914 ; 
evidently the gen. vern. meridionalis as taken in the Var at St. 
Maxime, etc., by Dr. Chapman, and described by Tutt (‘ British 
Butterflies,’ vol. iv). Some of the co-types were kindly presented 
to me by the captor, and are in my collection. 
i A. bellargus.—Var. punctifera, Obthr., and var. semi-ceronus, 
utt. 
A. eschert.—In one locality ; over, and very worn in October. 
Polyommatus icarus.—Females dark and smoky. I never 
saw a blue female in the spring on the Riviera, nor at Digne, 
Basses-Alpes. 
[P. lysimon.—This, I suspect, is another of the mythical 
Lycenids of the Riviera, where it is reported on the slenderest 
evidence, and probably after a too sanguine reading of a passage 
in the description of the species in Rambur’s ‘ Faune 
d’Andalousie.’ ‘‘ M. Solier,’’ he writes, ‘‘ m’a donné un individu 
quwil pense avoir pris dans les environs de Marseille.” The 
italics are myown. M. Oberthir says that he has been assured 
