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in Staudinger’s last Cataloy, nor yet can I find any reference to it in 
the Zoological Record from 1901 till now) zickerti has priority over 
latina, this proposal is absolutely contrary to the Code and cannot be 
followed; whilst apart from the Code it is obvious that such a pro- 
ceeding will lead to endless confusion, if insects are distributed to 
friends and others as latina, when they really are ztckerti. 
I understand zickerti, from my correspondence with Querci, tobe 
the beautiful dominant small yellow race, and from Verity’s whole 
paragraph, ante p. 41, I understand his latina to include the red, the 
pink, and the yellow forms; it is therefore self evident that itis much 
more convenient to call the yellow form zickerti than to have to say 
the yellow race of latina, and this quite apart from the question of 
priority. 
P.S.—Since writing my note on Zygaena loti | have had to turn up 
some references to Ochsenheimer’s second volume, and I find that he 
had no doubt as to what was understood in those early days, by loti, 
for he places it, referring to figures, quite definitely to Hubner’s 
hippocrepidis, and he likewise refers Esper’s figure 1, plate 35, to the 
same species, whilst in an addendum at the end of his description he 
most carefully goes into a cormparison of Esper’s transalpina and lott, 
and he comes to an emphatic conclusion that transalpina does not 
belong here, 7.e., to hippocrepidis, of which he makes loti a synonym. 
Also since writing the above I have looked up Seitz and find that 
he says zickerti, Hoffm., ‘‘is similar to boisduvalii, but the hindwing 
is all black, being without the yellow central spot,” but in the Fnt. 
Zeit. Int. Ent. ver., xviii. (1904), p. 9. Hoffman says ‘‘ Vorderfiugel 
mit 5 kleinen gelben Flecken, Hinterflugel ganz schwarz oder nur mit 
einem kleinen gelben Fleck.” Mr. Turner has kindly sent me this 
extract taken from Dziurzynski’s Synopsis in the Berliner Ent. Ver., 
1908, as I do not possess the serial quoted, and it seems not 
improbable that botsduvalii, Costa, and zickerti, Hoff., may possibly 
prove to be the same insect, as Costa’s insect came from Naples and 
Hoffman’s variety is said to occur “in Mittel und Sud-Italien,” so 
that it seems to ine probable that both may be the yellow form of the 
large race of transalpina. ‘This, however, does not affect the principle 
for which I am contending, that it is quite inadmissible for one 
author to sink the name of an earlier writer and create another name 
to take its place, merely on the plea of its being ‘‘a very special form.” 
The Swiss species of the Genus Hesperia. 
By B. C. S. WARREN, F.E.S. 
(Continued from page 52.) 
H..ryfjelensis, Obth. 
It is still doubtful whether it is correct to treat this insect as a 
distinct species, but the opinion of those most competent to judge 
seems to incline that way, and I can add one biological item of interest, 
hitherto unrecorded, which appears to be a further reason for doing so. 
I have only once taken ryffelensis, and on that occasion only two 
specimens; a g and @ paired, in perfect condition, doubtless 
emerged that day. Unfortunately shortly afterwards I missed two 
other specimens. The locality was the Alp Scharmoin on the 
western slopes of the Parpaner Rothorn in the Grisons; the date 
