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FIG. 



7. Zeuzera eucalypti, First stage, mesothorax, x 200. 



8. ,, ,, ,, ,, third abdominal segment. 



9. Tinea pellionella, First stage, tubercles iii, iii b, iv, v, x 300. 



10. Pierix raj)a, First stage, meso-, post-thorax, and iii, iv, v, first 



abdominal, x 200. 



11. P. brassiccB, First stage, exact position of tubercles iii, iii b, iv, v, 



and spiracle, x 300. 



12. Plutella cruciferarum, First stage, post-thorax and position of 



spiracle, and iii on first abdominal segment, x 300. 



13. 14. Nemrcha hyhreadalis, First stage, tubercles above line of 



spiracles, on meso-, post-thorax and first abdominal, x 300. 

 All figures with anterior direction to the left. 



PARARGE ACHINE ON THE MENDEL. 



By the Rev. F. E. Lowe, M.A., F.E.S. 



On several occasions I have been over most of the ground 

 mentioned by Mr. Rowland-Brown in his account of " Butterfly 

 Hunting in S. Tyrol " {ante, p. 222). In the main I agree with 

 him that Brenner and Mendel are disappointing. But if insects 

 are not so abundant they are often finer, or show interesting 

 differences when compared with Swiss specimens. The one before 

 me now is P. achine. Of a long series, beautifully fresh, taken 

 on the Mendel, July 4th, 1903, I find a uniform difference from 

 any of my other specimens. I have the species from Aigle, 

 Liestal, Waldenberg, Freibourg in B., &c. All these, on the 

 under side of the secondaries, have a broad white irregular band, 

 in which are placed the ringed eye-spots, very much after the 

 manner of C. arcania. And such, I suppose, is the type form. 

 But the examples from Mendel have vo white band, but the eye- 

 spots (perhaps, on the average, larger than in the type) stand in 

 the ground colour, which is, if anything, dariier towards the border 

 than in the centre. The white band is represented only by an 

 interrupted faint white streak on the inner side of the eye-spots. 

 This, since all mine are alike in their peculiarity, looks like a 

 local race, which might be dignified with a varietal name — say 

 " Mendelensis." It would be interesting to know whether Mr. 

 Rowland-Brown's Mendel specimens show the same features. 

 Perhaps, as unfortunately he found it just going over, he did not 

 think it worth taking. An earlier visit would, of course, have 

 given Mendel a better place as regards number of species, notably 

 two nice things — viz., Libythea celtis and Lyccena amandus. Bren- 

 ner, as a hunting-ground, appears to suffer from chronic bad 

 weather. In 1902 I stayed at the Hotel Post from 17th to 25th 

 July, and it rained almost without ceasing. In June, 1901, I 

 had only slightly pleasanter impressions, looking at things with 

 an entomologist's eyes. 



St. Stephen's Vicarage, Guernsey. 



