28 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



the two species. Lampa and Aurivillius both assign this arctic 

 form of ligea to adyte, Hb., "smaller than the type. Hind wings 

 under-side nearly unicolorous." 



I may add that the real adyte taken by me on the Brenner, 

 <? and 2 , might have served as the models of Hiibner's bril- 

 liant figs. 759-60, and I have no doubt that they represent 

 a form of euryale and not of ligea, which is the conclusion of 

 Dr. Keverdin, who also considers that these figures fit exactly 

 the majority of Swiss euryale. 



Ligea from the Vosges (P. J. Barraud, St. Maurice-sur- 

 Moselle), Carinthia, and the Alpes-Maritimes in my collection 

 exhibit in the males a considerable range of variation. In the 

 Vosges series the males are deep black -brown ; the rusty band 

 band is bright, the ovoid ocellations white-pupilled, and the 

 spot in space 3 invariable. In the Alpes-Maritimes examples 

 (St. Martin-Vesubie, July, 1902) the ground colour is a shade 

 lighter, the band is broader and somewhat duller in tone, the 

 spot in space 3 often obsolescent or wanting, and the ocellations 

 devoid of pupils, or almost so. This form has been named 

 pe) magna by Fruhstorfer, and the Piedmontese examples in the 

 National Collection are identical with mine from the Alpes- 

 Maritimes, as might be expected. But his var. or subspecies — 

 meaning local race, for he is great at the invention of the 

 latter — etolyma clearly belongs to euryale, and not to ligea at all. 



Euryale, from the Hautes-Pyrenees, though varying inde- 

 finitely on the upper side of the fore wings, is true adyte, Hb. 

 So far as I know, Ugca has never been reported on good authority 

 from the Pyrenees^, though I should not be surprised were it 

 to be discovered in the western extremity of the range where so 

 many unexpected northern and north-eastern Lepidoptera recur, 

 for example ArascJima levana, reported by M. Rondou, on the 

 authority of M. Gerardin, as well distributed in the neighbour- 

 hood of Oloron, in the Basses-Pyrenees. 



Dr. Reverdin also describes and figures a distinct race form 

 from Tramelan which differs in a pronounced way from the 

 euryale (adyte) of the Alps, and approaches in certain particulars, 

 especially in the uniform, not pinched in, arrangement of the 

 band of the fore wings, the Silesian type. For the Gurnigel 

 form, erroneously named philomela, he proposes segregata, and 

 notes that it is a transition form to ocellans of the Tyrol, of 

 which, again, the entirely black ab. e,rtrema, Schawerda, is the 

 extreme form. 



SOME STEPHANID.E IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



By E. a. Elliott, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



In the 'Entomologist,' 1917, p. 107, Mr. Morley described 

 as new, Stephauus rubripes, noting also three specimens from 



