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Vou. XLIX.] SEPTEMBER, 1916. [No. 640 
AGRIADES CORYDON, Popa, AND DR. VERITY’S 
DISCOVERY. 
By W. G. Sueupon,'F.E.S. 
In reference to Mr. Rowland-Brown’s interesting announce- 
ment of Dr. Verity’s discovery of a new Lycenid allied to A.corydon, 
which he calls A. aragonensis, I understand that the grounds on 
which Dr. Verity claims the new species are, apart from ‘‘ certain 
superficial and organic characters,’’ that A. corydon is a single- 
brooded species, that the new species, which in certain localities 
inhabits the same ground as A. corydon, has two emergences in 
a season; and that the single emergence of the one is inter- 
mediate in date between the two emergences of the other. 
If this is the case, without entering into the question of 
_ the validity of the new species, it appears certain that it cannot 
be named aragonensis. 
In the first place the spelling of the name is wrong ; Gerhard, 
in giving a name to the central Spanish form of A. corydon, spelt 
it arragonensis, and, of course, whether this form eventually is 
found to be a variety of A. corydon, or anything else, Gerhard’s 
spelling must stand. 
In the second place, Gerhard’s specimens were brought by 
Lederer from Spain; and the fact that certain superficially 
similar specimens have been captured in the South of France 
does not, if there are two species involved, necessarily imply 
that these latter are identical with the Spanish examples; and, 
as a matter of fact, sofar as lam aware, there is not the slightest 
reason to suppose that the Spanish race of A. var. arragonensis 
in any locality produces more than one brood, and there is the 
strongest reason to believe that it has only one. ; 
The matter was very fully gone into by Tutt in the last volume 
issued of ‘ British Butterflies,’ and although there is possibly a 
second brood of A. corydon in Andalusia, the form concerned 
would be var. albicans, and not var. arragonensis. The sole 
reason for supposing that var. albicans may have a second brood 
is, that examples have been recorded as early as April 25th, and 
the normal time of emergence seems to be the end of May or 
ENTOM.—SEPTEMBER, 1916. s 
