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extensive pattern also on underside; of this I have specimens 

 generously presented to me by Dr. Chapman, who has himself 

 collected them at Albarracin (Aragon) in July and August. Dealing 

 with these species, I must thus also conclude that, strangely enough, 

 the beautiful thetis-oolouved race of coridon from Spain, mentioned 

 above, has to this day remained without a name ; I suggest that of 

 coelestissima, taking as " types " the specimens, sent to me by Chapman, 

 from Albarracin and from Tragacete. I have others from Valdemoro 

 and from Cuenca in Nueva Castilla, all exactly alike. I have also 

 received from Cuenca the totally different albicans, H.S., which makes 

 .one suspect that the existence of a third species in Spain might some 

 day be established ; albicans is usually quite a coridon, but in some 

 individuals it approaches the look of arragonensis, Gerh., so much 

 that an untrained eye would no doubt mix them together. The 

 specimens collected by Chapman at Avila and Navalperal are of this 

 sort, whereas those of Cuenca usually never are. Some day I must 

 come back to this subject more at length. I will only mention here 

 the quite peculiar underside of albicans : ground-colour dirty white on 

 all the wings, with a suspicion of yellow ; markings not black, but brown, 

 very pale in extreme forms ; lunules not orange, but dirty yellow, 

 usually extremely small, often totally obliterated. Individual variation 

 leads from this special form to the usual bolder pattern and colouring 

 of coridon on the one hand, such as in my large series from Cuenca, 

 and of hispana and arragonensis on the other in some examples, such 

 as those of Chapman mentioned above ; in the latter cases, however, 

 complete transition does not exist. Recapitulating, one comes to the 

 conclusion that in Spain A. coridon and A. hispana, apart from minor 

 local differences, both produce a smaller blue race (respectively 

 coelestissima and nymotypical hispana), and a larger silvery-white race 

 (albicans and arragonensis). 



A/ioria crataegi, L., race augusta, Trti., trans, ad race crataegi, 

 L. —The race found by Querci at S. Fili, m. 900, on the 

 Calabrian Coast Range, is interesting, because its variations exhibit 

 a direct transition from the very characteristic augusta, Trti., 

 of Sicily, to the nymotypical race of the species, whereas not 

 one individual form of Calabria is similar to meridionalis, Vrty., 

 which prevails largely in Central Italy. In the characteristic 

 individuals of the latter there is in the male a complete dis- 

 appearance of black scaling along the neuration on both surfaces 

 and of the sparse scaling of underside, and in the female the forewings 

 are nearly entirely transparent, with a few white scales near apex 

 only. Instead in the race in question the whitest males always show 

 as much black scaling as the whitest individuals of Central Europe ; 

 the most transparent females always have the outer half of forewings 

 white; along the discocellular nervules of both fore and hindwing a 

 more or less conspicuous irregular patch of pale grey is visible in this 

 sex ; these never exist in meridionalis, whereas they are a characteristic 

 of the Linnean race (see '• Rhopalocera Palaearctica ") ; in one specimen 

 this patch has the form of a broad quadrangular spot on forewing, 

 even more pronounced than in race sibirica, Vrty. In the male 

 specimens from Calabria, in which the black scaling is most extensive, 

 this never develops in the broad, triangular and partly confluent grey 



