114 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
with parthenie in any stage. For over forty years there seems 
to have existed only the most nebulous idea of this form, but 
in 1896 Hormuzaki described it from two of Dorfmeister’s speci- 
mens in the same magazine, vol. xlv., p. 233. (This page is 
wrongly quoted as 341, both in Staudinger’s ‘ Catalogue,’ and 
in Hormuzuki’s own article in ‘Iris,’ xi., p. 7). Much of this 
description is unavailable, because it is a comparison with a 
specimen bred from a Regensburg larva, and supposed to be 
britomartis, but the correct designation of which does not appear 
with any certainty from the description. There can, however, be 
no question that Hormuzaki was acquainted with Dorfmeister’s 
veronice, and there exists in the national collection at South 
Kensington a specimen of the latter identified by him, a female, 
from which the following description is made :— 
Up. s. f. w.: border broad, lunules small, the third being the 
most prominent; outer subterminal rather broad, inner rather 
broader and curving outwards at inner margin; elbowed line narrow ; 
marginal blotch outlined, and showing much of the ground colour, 
speckled with black scales; stigma outlined, oval, with many black 
scales; space between basal lines filled up with blackish; basal 
suffusion extends along inner margin as far as elbowed line. 
Up. s. h. w.: narrow lunules of ground colour within border ; 
darker ones, still small, within the outer line; basal suffusion ex- 
tends over the rest of the wing, except a few dots within the inner 
line, one spot within what would, if not included in the suffusion, 
be the extra line, and the basal spot. 
Un. s. f. w. Markings very indistinct, except the outer subter- 
minal; inner subterminal and elbowed line indicated only by marked 
costal dots, the other spots which form them only slightly showing 
through from up. s.; marginal blotch small and square, the other 
markings narrow but clear; inner edging line of border angulated 
between the nervures. 
Un. s. h. w.: inner edging line of border slightly angulated ; 
lunules pale; outer band with palish lunules, and the inner part 
dark and broad; central band with the outer part not much paler 
than the inner, and with the third and fourth spots projecting but 
little; inner band darker than outer; fourth spot of basal band 
absent, fifth present. 
This fifth spot of the basal band, is that which is spoken of 
by some of the German writers as the light (or white) spot at 
the anal angle; in his description of veronice in ‘ Iris’ Hormu- 
zaki states that this spot is silvery white, but it is not so in this 
specimen. He also speaks of the striking contrast between the 
colour of the marginal lunules and the darker external border, 
which he describes as being reddish-yellow in the male, and 
dark lemon in thefemale. This contrast certainly exists in the 
specimen under notice, but can hardly be called striking. In 
the South Kensington collection several other specimens are 
placed with this, whose general facies leaves no doubt as to 
