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early male Trifolii with the broadest black band of any, 
but the central red spots small and seldom united, was 
regarded as an aberrant variety—while the female of the 
marsh form with antenne just as slender asa ¢ Lonicere, 
and an equally narrow black border, has been nearly in- 
variably classed as Lonicerce (I am only speaking of ordi- 
nary collectors). Very shortly after the publication of the 
part of Stainton’s Manual, comprising the Zygene, Mr. 
Newman expressed his dissatisfaction. Speaking of the in- 
sects and the authors, he says (Intelligencer, vol. 1, p. 180) 
that he cannot understand them, the them being equally 
applicable to either or both, the insects or the authors. 
In Doubleday’s list (2nd edition) Lonicerce and T'rifolii 
are the only two 5-spotted species, and their synonymy 
is extremely scanty, Z'rifolii being given as T’rifolii, Ks- 
per, and Loti, Haw., and Lonicerce as Lonicere, Esper 
(Fabricius, Hiibner, Stephens, or Westwood not being 
mentioned). In his recent list, Staudinger follows the 
same arrangement, but he apparently separates the types 
of the early Trifolii under one of the following varieties. 
B. Var. Orobi, mac. mediis separatis. 
C. Var. Syracusia, minor, al. ant. maculis parvis dis- 
junctis, post. margine lato nigro. 
On June 16th, 1864, I found Z. Trifolii in abundance in 
some rough dry fields, abounding in Lotus corniculatus, 
bordering on Barnwell Wold, Northamptonshire; the 
insects were very much worn, of a very small form, in 
fact, types of the “early” Trifolii; Filipendule, which 
also occurs there, was just coming out. The Trifoli 
were so worn, I could catch but few worth keeping. 
On the 27th of the some month, in the same year, 
I found the large late Z’rifolii just coming out in a 
marshy spot in Tilgate Forest. I also got many 
pupex. The insects were so much larger, and so different 
in appearance from the Barnwell Wold specimens, and 
the fact of the same species being so much later in a 
much more southern and less exposed locality, and the 
thickness of the antenne in each, and the generally con- 
fluent central spots in the Tilgate insect, precluding the 
possibility of referring either to Lonicerw, I was at once 
struck with the impression that they were not one and 
the same species (I had never taken T’rifolii before this 
year). ilipendule does not occur here. 
