176 THE ENTOMOLOGISY. 
the title page is written: ‘‘M. Stainton, affectueux souvenir, 
Pierre Milliére.”’ | 
Thais polyxena, var. cassandra.—Mr. Morris, writing on 
April 11th, mentions that on the preceding day this butterfly 
was met with in perfect condition in the direction of Mougins. 
It is, however, one of the species liable to intermittent scarcity, 
as I pointed out in my note on MV. cinaia, etc. (antea, p. 12). 
The supply of the food-plant, Aristolochia rotunda, being limited, 
overproduction means a food famine for the larve, and disastrous 
results the following year for the race. Ihave never seen typical 
polyxena from the South of France, but there is evidently a form 
intermediate between it and the var. cassandra, as Mr. Morris has 
observed something of the kind in certain localities where it 
occurs. He also reports the ab. ochracea. 
T’. rumina, var. medesicaste.—Apparently less persecuted by 
dealers in the neighbourhood of Cannes than elsewhere, especially 
at Digne, where it has disappeared from many of its former 
haunts owing to ruthless over-collecting of the larve for chance 
ab. honnoratii. I remember some years ago an individual, in the 
garb of Adam before the Fall, emerging from the bucketful of 
warm water which in summer does duty for the river descending 
from the Dourbes where it joins the Kaux Thermales just outside 
the town, to inform me that I was actually on the spot where the 
last honnoratii had been bagged that season. He was not an 
entomologist, but was well up in the current prices of the Digne 
speciality. 
Euchloé ausonia (belia, auct.) gen. vern. matutia, Turati, and 
gen. est. turatii (ausonia, auct.) Rothsch.—Both common. The 
change of nomenclature is discussed in my review of Lord 
Rothschild’s paper in the ‘Novitates Zoologice,’ xxi (1914) 
(‘ Entomologist,’ xlviiil, pp. 152-158), and the Cannes forms 
would be those described as ‘‘occurring along the Riviera to 
Genoa.” The Euchloé we have known for many years as 
eupheno, L., is actually belia, L. = ausonia, Hb. 
E. euphendides.—Enjoys the beautiful popular name of 
‘“‘ Aurore de Provence,” and rightly deserves it. I have taken it 
from the sea level in April to as high as above St. Martin- 
Vésubie (about 3110 ft.) at the latter end of July, and early in 
July in the Eastern Pyrenees up to 5000 ft. Mr. Hlwes 
(‘ Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.,’ 1887, p. 389) says that he is almost 
positive that he saw it at the Port d’Espagne at 7000 ft. 
Mrs. Nicholl also met with it on Mont Genevre, Hautes-Alpes, 
above 5000 ft., all of which records are noteworthy as showing 
the wide vertical distribution of what is regarded as essentially a 
southern and low level species. 
Leptidia duponcheliimRare. Mr. Morris says that he was 
very pleased to take it this year for the second time during 
seven years’ collecting in the same locality, a few miles from 
