THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XXXII.] JUNE, 1899. [No. 433. 



EUGHLOE GRUNERI AT CANNES. 

 By T. A. Chapman, M.D. 



On March 3rd, 1899, I took, at Auribeau, near Cannes, a 

 Euchloe which puzzled me. I entered it as euphenoides, because 

 I felt sure it was not cardamines, and no other species seemed 

 possible. Still, I could not persuade myself it was euphenoides, 

 and so imagined it was perchance a hybrid between those species. 

 Taking it to M. Constant, to compare with his collection, it 

 agreed almost absolutely with specimens from Eastern Europe, 

 labelled grilneri. Suggesting that it was an unlikely species to 

 be taken so far west, he said, " Why not?" and pointed out that 

 I was in a position that reminded me of the English schoolboy 

 who takes Pieris daplidice whilst the ordinary collector does not, 

 because he never looks at a white butterfly. He said he should 

 never think of bagging a cardamines or a euphenoides, and 

 grilneri, if it appeared but rarely, would escape along with these 

 from any Provencal collector. The grilneri at South Kensington 

 have no specimens agreeing precisely with mine, or with those 

 like it in M. Constant's series. They are smaller, and the pale 

 portions of the fringes are whiter. 



My specimen is like a cardamines, with a wash of yellow on 

 the upper surface, not so deep as that of euphenoides. The 

 discal spot is very large, as in euphenoides, and accompanied by 

 a dark shade across the wing, as in that species, continuous with 

 a dark shading along the costa. The black at the wing bases is 

 also more extensive than in cardamines. Beneath it resembles 

 cardamines most, but the green markings of hind wing are some- 

 what more restricted, with wider and more open clear spaces, 



ENTOM. — JUNE, 1899. P 



