98 THS ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 
Nomenclature of the variation mentioned in Table I. 
[The ordinal numbers and letters correspond to those in the 
Table.] 
A. Race of Florence: intermedia, Rocci. 
B. Race of Bolognola: altitudinaria, Turati. 
« C. Race of Formia: transiens, Rocei :— 
1-3. Unnamed forms transitional to emendata, Vrty. (15%). 
4-6. Forms similar to those of race maritima, Oberthur 
(56%). 
7-8. rte of form pseudomaritima, Turati (10%). 
12-13. Form maritima-trimaculata,, Obthr. (149%). 
14. Form depuncta, Trti. (2%). ~ 
15. Form psendosorrentina, Trti. (2%). 
16. Form pseudosorrentina-depuncta, Trti. (only one speci- 
men amongst about 3,000 individuals which have 
been examined). 
Race of Villalatina: latina, Vrty :— 
D. Bright red colour : 
4-6-8. Variations of form sorrentina-seamacula, Dz. (4%). 
9-10. Unnamed red forms (31%). 
11. Form calabrica-hexamaculata, Trti. (4%). 
13-15. Form sorrentina, Ster. (1%). 
17-19. Unnamed red forms (26%). 
20-22. Variations of form calabrica, Calb. (6%). 
E. Yellow colour : 
6. Form dava, Dz. (2%). 
8-10. Form aanthographa, Germ. (12%). 
15. Unnamed form. 
17-19. Form botsduvali, Costa. 
20-21. Variations of form zicherti, Hoff. (5%). 
F. Pinkish colour: 
9-11-18. Form rhodomelas, Trti. 
On the Geographical Variation of Zygaena loti, Wien. Verz. 
subspecies transalpina, Esp. 
By ROGER VERITY, M.D. 
The magnificent material collected during the last few years in 
Central and Southern Italy, by Querci and his family, has been more 
or less a revelation as regards the geographical variation of several 
species of Zyaena in that region. They are extremely variable, and 
far too many fancy names have been given to individual forms with- 
out a notion of their frequency and distribution. Querci has just 
drawn out a very instructive statistic of the forms of transalpina in 
several races, utilising thousands of specimens he has at hand. 
I will now try and make out a brief summary of the races which 
have proved to be discernible in Italy, making a clear distinction 
between them and individual variations. This does not seem to have 
been achieved by any of the authors of Monographs on this genus, 
such as Dziurzynski and Seitz, who give interminable lists of names 
of minute variations without furnishing any information as to their 
frequency and importance. 
The nomenclature of this genus is unfortunately extremely intri- 
