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(5) Euchloe ausonia matutia, Turati. 



gen. vern. ma^?tiza, Turati.l -D- • *- n 



^ , , i-- -A i.1 u r Riviera to Genoa. 



gen. 8est. Utratit, Kothsch. ) 



(6) Euchloe ausonia romana, Calberla. 



gen. vern. romana, Calberla. |m -i p Tf iv 



gen. aest. romanides, NeritY.] •'' ' ^* 



(7) Euchloe ausonia kruegeri, Turati. ] 



gen. vern. kruegeri, Turati. I Sicily, 

 gen. sest. trinacrice, Turati. ) 



(8) Asia Minor. 



(9) Euchloe ausonia grceca, Staud. 



gen. vern. grcBca, Staud |^^.^^^ ^^^ ^^^^.^^^ 

 gen. sest. maxima. Verity.) 



(10) Jerusalem (Palestine). 



(11) Egypt. 



(12) C, and S. Algeria. 



Passing to the next species, hitherto known as E. {A.) pechi, 

 Stgr., attention is drawn to the fact that Mr. Verity rightly associates 

 this so-called species with E. tagis, of which it is the North African 

 form. M. Oberthllr, when he wrote the letterpress of the last 

 magnificent fascicule (No. x.) of the ' Lepidopterologie Comparee,' 

 evidently had not before him the result of Victor Faroult's breeding 

 experiments summarized by Lord Rothschild, which proves that the 

 larvae and pupge differ not at all from those of typical E. tagis. Mr. 

 Verity figured pechi (' Rhopal. Palsearctica,' pi. xxxvi. fig. 59) from a 

 male, now in my own collection, taken by Miss Fountaine in company 

 with Mrs. Nicholl at El Kantara in March, 1902 [cp. 'Entomologist,' 

 xxxix. p. 87). She remarks that in the backward season of 1904 

 it did not put in an appearance until April 6th. Lord Rothschild 

 further observes, to support the conclusion that pechi and tagis are 

 forms of one species that, both in his own collection and in the 

 British Museum, there are Spanish and Portuguese examples differing 

 very little from true pechi. 



Meanwhile, it is interesting to note that Lord Rothschild dis- 

 agrees with M. Oberthiir as to the specific identity of Pieris (Pontia) 

 raphani, as might be expected, maintaining it, with the southern 

 desert form albidice, Obthr., for the Algerian form of the familiar 

 P. daplidice. 



In conclusion, may I venture to ask our magazine contributors 

 who record Euchloe ausonia and its forms to employ the nomenclature 

 as tabulated. Errors corrected upon the unimpeachable evidence 

 and solid reasoning; which distinguish the work before us should not 

 be repeated, even though they be the result of a century of mis- 

 understanding. As a book of reference, Staudinger's ' Catalog ' will 

 continue to have its uses ; but as time goes on, and specialists over- 

 haul the various genera of Palaearctic Lepidoptera, it is seen that 

 Staudinger's work teems with mistakes, sometimes due to sheer 

 carelessness, not seldom to a lack of intelligent appreciation of the 

 work of non-German scientists. 



H. Rowland-Brown. 



Harrow Weald, Middlesex : April, 1915. 



