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D6me has "egeria," meaning perhaps the intermediate form, 

 with the fulvous form much less commonly. Next comes the 

 curious fact that though the Lower Rhone (Avignon, Tarascon, 

 Nimes) has the true fulvous form, Hyeres, Cannes, Grasse, Nice, 

 Digue, and Alassio have the intermediate. Savoy has the inter- 

 mediate (Chambery) and even egerides perhaps, though in the 

 same latitude on the west of France there is nothing but the 

 fulvous type. At Chalseul and Besangon (Doubs) the ordinary 

 northern type is found. Switzerland generally, I believe, has the 

 northern type, but Staudinger gives egeria for Valais and the 

 intermediate occurs in Vaud. 9 The south side of the Alps has 

 probably colonies of the pale egerides, and of intermediates. 

 Orta, with a very hot summer, has the English type (Tutt, Ent. 

 Rec.j XII, 1900, p. 328). Locarno has the intermediate (ibid., 

 XV, 1903, p. 321). North Italy in general and western Pied- 

 mont have the intermediate; but further south egeria begins, 

 at what region I do not know. Speyer gives on his own authority 

 the remarkable statement that at Florence both extremes occur, 

 but chiefly intermediates between the two. Mr. R. Verity 

 however kindly informs me that in his experience this is not so, 

 and that neither the real southern type nor the northern occur 

 there. Sardinia, Sicily, Crete all have the southern type. 

 Greece probably has various types. Staudinger (Hor. Ross., VII, 

 1870, p. 78) says intermediates resembling Nice types common 

 everywhere, but from "Greece" the British Museum has a series 

 that would pass for English specimens ; and the same type occurs 

 near Constantinople. The island of Corfu has a pale inter- 

 mediate, distinct from egerides but approaching it. In Roumania 

 all three forms are recorded from various places : egeria in the 

 Dobrutscha; not quite typical (presumably an intermediate) 

 at Bukharest; intermediate in various mountainous localities 

 as well as in Macedonia and Dalmatia; but egerides in Azuga 

 at about 3,000 feet. 10 Hungary has the true egerides also. 

 (Cf . Caradja, Deut. Ent. Zt., IX, p. 58.) Mathew records the same 



9 Mr. Wheeler has some pale but rather worn specimens from the Rhone Valley 

 at Vernayaz. 



10 See Fleck, E., Die Macrolep. Rumaniens, Bui. Soc. Sciinte, VIII, 1899, 

 p. 720. 



