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having such good opportunities for collecting in one given spot as if 

 one were stationed ashore, it would seem from these short notes-, 

 that considering its small size, the Island of Hong Kong must be 

 extraordinarily prolific in its lepidopterous fauna. 



Lepidoptera in Peninsular Italy during the year 1920. 



By 0. QUEECI. 



(Continued from page 29.) / 



On August 1st, 1920, my son-in-law, Dr. Enzo Romei left for the 

 Monti Sibillini to complete the researches begun by my wife and 

 daughter in 1912 and continued in 1913, in 1918 and in 1919. The 

 Monti Sibillini afford a lepidopterogical fauna very rich and varied, 

 but every species is localized and to collect many species it is necessary 

 to walk long distances by difficult and fatiguing paths and often, on 

 account of the long distances, to sleep on open mountains. My wife 

 and daughter, though active and indefatigable walkers, often found 

 themselves confronted by difficulties which they could not surmount. 

 Dr. Romei, a young and energetic army officer accustomed to the hard 

 life of the Alps during the war and inspired by great love of lepidop- 

 terology, was certainly in excellent condition to reach the furthest and 

 most difficult localities and to complete the entomological study of the 

 Sibillini. 



As in the whole of peninsular Italy so also in the Sibillini mountains 

 the emergence of lepidoptera takes place in two periods sharply 

 divided by the summer pause, which corresponds with the time of 

 greatest heat and drought. In normal years the first period lasts from 

 June 15th to July 20th, and in this period there emerge: — Syntouns- 

 phegea, L., race pfluemeri, Wacq. S. marjana, Stauder, race quercii,. 

 Vrty. Procris statices, L., race not identified. P. globular iae, Hb., 

 race notata, Z. P. cognata, Ramb., race not identified. P. tenuicornis, 

 Z., race not identified. P. geryon, Hb., race not identified. Zygaena 

 rubicund vs. Hb., race nibicundus. Z. piirpuralis, Briinn., race fiorii, 

 Costantini. Z. scabiome, Schev., race orion, Calb. Z. achilleae, Esp., 

 race aestivalis, Obth, Z. lonicerae, Schev., race vivax, Vrty. Z. 

 stoechadis, Bkh., race vionticaga, Vrty. Z. transalpina, Esp., race 

 altitudinaria , Trti. Z. oxytropis, B., race sibylliua, Vrty. Z. carniolica, 

 Scop., race incerta, Rocci. Nisoniades tages, L., race clarus, Carad., I. 

 gen. tages. Krgnnis lavatherae, Esp.,- race australior, Vrty. E. baetica, 

 Ramb., race rostagiwi, Vrty. t]?s)>eria serratulae, Ramb., race serra- 

 tulae. 11. walvoides, Elw. and Edw., race pseudomalme, Vrty., I. gen. 

 pseudomalvae. Powellia sao, Hb., race gracilis, Vrty., I. gen. sa-o. 

 Augiades sylvanus, Esp., race 'sylvanus (only one generation in the 

 Sibillini). Chrysophanus hippothoe, L., race italica, Calb. Rurnicia 

 phlaeaa, L., race eleus, F., II. gen. iuitia-caudata, Tutt, and eleus, F. 

 Loiveta alciphron, Rott., race romanornm, Fruhst. Glaucopsyche 

 cyllarus, Rott., race pauper, Vrty. Scolitantides ba ton, Bgstr., race baton 

 (only one generation in the Sibillini). Agriades thetis, Rott., race 

 apenninigena, Vrty., I. gen. apenninigena. A. thersites (Cant.), Chap- 

 man, race nieridiana, Vrty., I. gen. hibemata, Vrty. Polyommatus 

 teams, Rott., race zelleri, Vrty., I. gen. zelleri. Celastrina seniiargus,. 

 Rott., race porrecta, Vrty. Hirsutina damon, Schiff., race ausonia, 

 Vrty. Ilitligs ijiierciis, L., race interjecta, Vrty. Klugia spini, Schiff., 



