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NOTE ON A SPECIES OF LYCAHNID NEW TO THE 
PALA ARCTIC LEPIDOPTEROUS FAUNA—AGRIADES 
ARAGONENSIS, Verity. 
By H. Rownanp-Brown, M.A., F.E.S. 
In some notes on a butterfly hunt in France in 1910 (‘ Ento- 
mologist,’ vol. xliii, p. 325), I mentioned the occurrence of two 
broods of Agriades corydon in the first week of July at Nyons, 
Drome, apparently overlapping—‘‘ very broken, and old females 
flying with quite fresh male examples,’ the former, as I 
thought, properly referable to gen. meridionalis, Tutt. Since 
then I have not come across a similar case of overlapping ; 
and it has been reserved for Dr. Verity of Florence,.in the 
_ Annals of the Society of France, to clear up what was to me a 
complete mystery.* 
At a time when the variation of A. corydon is receiving con- 
siderable attention in England (certain British collectors 
apparently are bent on exterminating one of the more recently 
discovered forms in its very restricted locality), it may be use- 
ful to summarise the results of Dr. Verity’s observations. Dr. 
Chapman has already accomplished so much good work in the 
differentiation of the Lycenids that we are not surprised to learn 
that, as Polyommatus icarus and A. thersites are specifically 
distinct; Everes argiades, E. coretas, and E. decolorata; so 
certain “< forms ” of A. corydon resolve themselves into two 
separate and distinct species; though at present their respective 
life histories remain to be published in the same complete way 
as Dr. Chapman has given us the bionomics of the several 
Lycenids investigated by him ; and this Dr. Verity promises to 
do in the near future. 
Having observed in the first place worn examples of corydon 
apennina on the Tuscan hills flying with what now turns 
out to be a second emergence of the double brooded 
* Sur deux Lycena confondus sous le nom de L. (Agriades) corydon Poda, par 
le Dr. Roger Verity. ‘Ann. Soc. Ent. de France,’ vol. 1xxxix, 4™° Trimestre, pp. 
514-520. 
ENTOM.—avuGusT, 1916. Q 
