and brighter race lie calls etnenflala. Both of these by their 

 red scaling below and other comparative characters belong to 

 the loti group. 



" The races to the south of these areas Dr. Verity divides 

 into two groups, a mountain group and a maritime group, 

 differing again comparatively in build, brilliancy of colour 

 and size. Along the tops of the Apennines from Liguria to 

 the Abruzzi there is a race of small specimens named altUudina- 

 ria by Count Turati, frail, narrow wings, thin antennae, etc. 

 Below this race in altitude and intermediate between the 

 emendata of the loti group and altiludinaria in comparative 

 characters is the race intermedia of Rocci, which occurs on the 

 low foot-hills of the Apennines; these races produce but few 

 extreme individuals, they are all six-spotted with but little 

 extension of the black border of the hind-wing. 



" Further south melanism is strongly developed and even 

 becomes racial. In the Sorrento Peninsula occurs the race 

 sorrentina, Stgr., with the predominance of forms having 

 broad or very broad black margins to the hind-wings, often 

 with rays towards the dorsal margin, with occasional five- 

 spotted forms, occasionally with the whole hind-wing darkened, 

 and a few of the yellow spotted calabrica. In the Mainarde 

 Mts. at Villa-latina occurs a beautiful race distinct and peculiar 

 in its variation in a large proportion of its specimens by the 

 red becoming pink or yellow. To this race Dr. Verity gives 

 the name latina. 



" Of the other group there are two races (1) maritima, Obth., 

 like emendata but brighter and without the red scaling below, 

 and occurring along the Rivieran coast to Genoa, and (2) a very 

 similar race called transiens by Rocci, occurring along the 

 coasts further south and at Formia in Caserta producing 

 dark specimens closely approaching the neighbouring race 

 sorrentina." 



He also questioned whether the relationship of the forms as 

 at present suggested would stand, when the races occurring in 

 other parts of the peninsula had been studied. 



Lord Rothschild observed that the same range of variation 

 was exhibited in Z. ephiaUes. 



An Autograph of Charles Darwin. — The Rev. F. D. 



