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'Leptidia duponcheli,' Stgr., I am informed that this example, 

 caught July 6th, 1916, is Lcptidia sinapis, ab. sartha, Riihl. I 

 can perceive no difference from duponcheli.^ 



Dryas papilla, L., J , July 6th, 1916. The two rows of black 

 spots near the hind margin on the upper surfaces of the hind 

 wings are repeated as dull olive-green spots on dull greenish- 

 purple on the under surface. 



Chrysophanus dorilis, Hf., ? , July loth, 1916. This was the 

 only example seen. The under surface is very bright, that of 

 the fore wing is orange, particularly bright in the centre, that of 

 the hind wing yellow, and it has the normal spots (the usual 

 summer form of the Eastern Pyrenees, H. E.-B.). 



Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, 

 France. 



Iphiclides (Papilio) podalirius, var. feisthamblii. 



Var. feisthamelii, Dup., geji. rem. miegii, Th. Mieg. — In 

 connection with Mr. McClymont's observations the following 

 notes from my MS. Catalogue may be of interest. 



Apparently this form does not extend into France much 

 beyond the foothills of the Pyrenees, and there only in the 

 eastern region, the two forms meeting at Gedre (Htes.-Pyrenees). 

 Bromilow mentions ab. miegii with the type in the Alpes- 

 Maritimes, but probably he confused this form with ab. zancleus, 

 Zeller. At any rate M. Oberthiir, who has carefully considered 

 the distribution of feisthamelii, offers no evidence in support of 

 an extended range eastward in this direction. Departmental 

 records as follows : — 



Ariege. — An intermediate form at Lavelant (Caradja). 

 Aiide. — The gen. vern. miegii is the form taken by the late 



Mr. A. S. Tetley at Axat in June, 1909. 

 Haute- Garonne. — Miegii and feisthamelii; Arguenos, St. 



Beat, Aspet (Caradja). 

 Hautes - Pyrenees. — One example, confirmed as such by 

 M. Oberthiir, taken with the type at Gedre, Gave du 

 Pau ; representing the western limit ; miegii also 

 occurring " at the lower end of the high valleys of 

 the department, as at Gedre " (Kondou). 

 Herault. '-Ty])ic?i\ podalirius only (Oberthiir). 

 Pyrenees-Orientales. — M. Eondou says that feisthamelii re- 

 places the type in the spring at Le Vernet, meaning, I 

 suppose, the form miegii. M. Oberthiir says that here the 



* Both Lang's figures and descriptions are most misleading, and the latter 

 especially vague and incomplete. L. duponcheli was not recorded from the 

 Pyrenees until quite recently, when Mr. Bethune-Baker, collecting in 1913, reported a 

 single example of the gen. ast. astivalis, Bellier, taken between Vernet and the 

 Col. du Cheval Mort. I failed to identify it in 1905 when there. Dr. Verity figures 

 (Khopal. Palaearct., pi. xxxix, fig. 52) a form of sinapis, pseudoduponcheli, Verity, 

 Le Vernet, and I expect this is the form now returned as ab. sartha (H. R,-Br). 



