144 THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 
Mts., now in the Oberthiir coll. ; Stefanelli in 40 years has only found 
one thetis similar to the ones described above; and I have never come 
across any specimen, except a Polyommatus icarus sent to me from 
Modena. This is probably due to the much greater scarcity of 
aberrations in general : Querci has only met with cases of nearly total 
mejanism in an Issoria lathonia, captured in Rome when he was a boy 
and sent to Staudinger, and in two Melitaea athalia from the Isle of 
Elba, now in my possession. 
Agriades *hylas, Esp., race conrEpTa, mihi.—The nymotypical race 
is from Saxony; it is large (82-34 mm.), the markings of the 
underside are prominent, the background is dark gray in the male and: 
of a very dark blackish-brown in the female; examples exactly 
corresponding to Esper’s figures are found also in the Alps. In 
Central Italy, instead, there exists a variation similar to that of other 
Species ; the size is smaller, the build frailer, the underside is never as- 
dark as in the nymotypical form, the markings are slightly reduced. 
and the female never shows traces of blue scaling above ; except for 
the size, these characters, however, are not as marked in a general: 
way as in other Agriades of the same region. The first generation, in: 
Tuscany, in the Sibillini and in the Mainarde, varies from 25 to 29" 
mm. in expanse; the second rarely reaches 25 mm., generally 
measures 22 to 24 and often is as small as 21; the latter corresponds 
exactly to Hibner’s golgus, although his “ type” was from Spain ; for 
the Italian first brood I propose the name correpta, the second should, 
I think, be called golgus. If both the broods of Spain and Italy are. 
found to be identical, the name golgus should, of course, be used for 
the race and correpta limited in both regions to the first brood. 
Agriades *escheri, Htib., race aLtIvoLans, mihi.—At high elevations. 
(m. 900) and also in localities less high, but in which mountain races- 
occur, in Tuscany and Central Italy generally, there exists a race of 
- escheri distinetly different from the one of the plains, although extreme 
individual variations here may resemble it. It recalls the race- 
rondowi, Obth., of the Pyrenees, by its small size and by the minute 
spots and lunules of the underside ; it differs from it, however, by the: 
more vivid blue of the male, similar to that of race spLENDENS, Stef., 
of the Italian plains, by the orange lunules of the upperside of the 
female, which are just as extensive as in splendens and not reduced or 
absent, as in rondowi, and finally by the very clear and often perfectly 
white underside of the male. “Types” from Firenzuola, m. 500,. 
near Florence. Females with a blue suffusion are more frequent in 
the mountains, just as is the case in France. In splendens the under- 
side has usually the same gray tinge in the male and the spots are 
about the same size as in Hubner’s figures, but the upperside is of a 
much colder, clearer and more vivid blue. 
Polyommatus meleager, Hsp., race macra, mihi.—In the lower 
localities of Tuscany this species does not differ from the nymotypical 
race of Saxony. At very high altitudes, such as Prato Fiorito, m. 
1000, it is smaller; the females are notably darker, the dark scaling 
* Hylas and eschert are not generally considered Agriades.—Hy.J.T. 
