eee ss OXIGRAPHA LITERANA, L. 187 
- But I think the name may be retained. In the Pyrénées-Orien- 
tales de Graslin found this form at Collioure, pale yellow, the 
colour of Stephens’s Chrysotheme (= Helicina), while at the other 
end of the chain a very small form is reported constant in the 
foot-hills of the Basses-Pyrénées (‘Cat. Lépids. Basses-Pyrs.,’ 
M. Larralde, 1895). 
. (jj) Ab. Ampla, Verity (1919). The author says that in 
Sicily a distinct race of Kdusa occurs; it is also the finest on 
account of its large size and very bright colouring; in a series 
: of the second generation from San Martino (May 15th-30th) the 
largest males reach 49 mm. 
(To be continued.) 
OXIGRAPHA LITERANA, UL.: ITS LIFE-CYCLE, 
DISTRIBUTION, AND VARIATION. 
By W. G. Sueupoy, F.Z.8., F.E.S. 
(Continued from p. 161.) 
Ab. asperana, Schiff. 
Schiffermiiller’s name raises an extremely difficult and 
obscure question. It is, of course, well known that his descrip- 
tions are so fragmentary and insufficient, that in those in which 
there is an absence of confirmatory evidence of their meaning by 
other writers who had seen the actual specimens they were made 
from in his collections, they are usually dropped; fortunately 
his collection of micros, some years after his death, was carefully 
gone through by two independent witnesses—Charpentier and 
Zincken—who compared his actual specimens with the figures 
of Hubner and left the record of their work in ‘ Die Zinsler, 
Wickler, Schaben und Geistchen.’ Unfortunately Schiffermuller 
described some of his species from specimens in other collections 
than his own, and did not possess a type. Asperana was one of 
these, and he sa'ys of it—‘‘ in the collection of M. P.” Now who 
“MM. P:” was is not certain. He was, however, a well-known 
Lepidopterist, judging from the fact that Schiffermuller described 
about twenty species from his collection. I have not much 
doubt, however, that these initials represent those of Matthias 
Piller, a Hungarian Jesuit. Schiffermuller named Pulleriana 
from specimens in the collection of “‘ M. P.” (see 8.v., p. 126, No. 
2). Fabricius (‘ Ent. Syst.,’ tom. iii, par. ii, p. 252) writes of 
Pilleriana that it “‘ was named after Piller, a Hungarian Jesuit.” 
Hagen, vol. ii, p. 46, writes of Matthias Pillar as the author of 
a work on entomology in 1782-8, or a few years after the date 
of Schiffermiuller’s book.* ‘ 
* Since the above was written I find in the ‘ Accentuated List of British Lepi- 
doptera,’ published in 1858, p. 61, ‘* pilleriana, named in honour of Piller, one of 
é the Theresian- Professors at Vienna.” Evidently Piller was a close friend of 
Schiffermiiller. 
