114 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



with -parthenie in any stage. For over forty years there seems 

 to have existed only the most nebulous idea of this form, but 

 in 1896 Hormuzaki described it from two of Dorfmeister's speci- 

 mens in the same magazine, vol. xlv., p. 233. (This page is 

 wrongly quoted as 341, both in Staudinger's ' Catalogue,' and 

 in Hormuzuki's own article in ' Iris,' xi., p. 7). Much of this 

 description is unavailable, because it is a comparison with a 

 specimen bred from a Regensburg larva, and supposed to be 

 britomartis, but the correct designation of which does not appear 

 with any certainty from the description. There can, however, be 

 no question that Hormuzaki was acquainted with Dorfmeister's 

 veronicce, and there exists in the national collection at South 

 Kensington a specimen of the latter identified by him, a female, 

 from which the following description is made : — 



Up. s. f. w. : boi^der broad, lunulas small, the third being the 

 most prominent ; outer subterminal rather broad, inner rather 

 broader and curving outwards at inner margin ; elbowed line narrow ; 

 marginal blotch outlined, and showing much of the ground colour, 

 speckled with black scales ; stigma outlined, oval, with many black 

 scales ; space between basal lines filled up with blackish ; basal 

 suffusion extends along inner margin as far as elbowed line. 



Up. s. h. w. : narrow lunules of ground colour within border ; 

 darker ones, still small, within the outer line ; basal suffusion ex- 

 tends over the rest of the wing, except a few dots within the inner 

 line, one spot within what would, if not included in the suffusion, 

 be the extra line, and the basal spot. 



Un. s. f. w. Markings very indistinct, except the outer subter- 

 minal ; inner subterminal and elbowed line indicated only by marked 

 costal dots, the other spots which form them only slightly showing 

 through from up. s. ; marginal blotch small and square, the other 

 markings narrow but clear; inner edging line of border angulated 

 between the nervures. 



Un. s. h. w. : inner edging line of border slightly angulated ; 

 lunules pale ; outer band wuth palish lunules, and the inner part 

 dark and broad ; central band with the outer part not much paler 

 than the inner, and with the third and fourth spots projecting but 

 little ; inner band darker than outer ; fourth spot of basal band 

 absent, fifth present. 



This fifth spot of the basal band, is that which is spoken of 

 by some of the German writers as the light (or white) spot at 

 the anal angle ; in his description of veronicce in ' Iris ' Hormu- 

 zaki states that this spot is silvery white, but it is not so in this 

 specimen. He also speaks of the striking contrast between the 

 colour of the marginal lunules and the darker external border, 

 which he describes as being reddish-yellow in the male, and 

 dark lemon in the female. This contrast certainly exists in the 

 specimen under notice, but can hardly be called striking. In 

 the South Kensington collection several other specimens are 

 placed with this, whose general facies leaves no doubt as to 



