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Editorial. 



We have much pleasure in announcing that Mr. John Hartley 

 Durrant has kindly consented to join our Editorial Staff. 



It is a special pleasure to know that we shall hereafter have the 

 advantage of his most valuable assistance. His knowledge of the Micro- 

 lepidoptera of the world is very probably unique, whilst his assistance in 

 Economic Entomology has been of the greatest value to the country, 

 and not the least to our soldiers at the front. Again, his Biblio- 

 graphical knowledge, and with it the whole Nomenclatorial question, 

 will be of the utmost value to the magazine, so that we feel that our 

 supporters will congratulate themselves on the advent of Mr. Durrant 

 as an Editor of this journal, whilst we of the staff welcome him very 

 heartily, he is a very old friend to some of us. 



Notes on Agriades coridon, Poda and A. aragonensis, Verity. 



By OEAZIO QUEKCI. 



During the first years of my entomological collecting, from 1885 to 

 1898, I collected Lepidoptera in the province of Rome without ever 

 seeing specimens of Agriades coridon. In the month of August 1899 I 

 found this species both at the Baths of Lucca, in Tuscany, as well as 

 in the neighbourhood of Bologna, and in the following August, 1900, I 

 found it again at Brunate near the Lake of Como. 



From 1902 to 1910 I collected Lepidoptera on the mountains of 

 Basilicata, and in the country near Naples without ever seeing 

 A. coridon; only in August 1910 and 1911 I caught it in abundance 

 on the Mainarde mountains in the province of Caserta. 



In the months of August 1912 and 1913 my wife and daughter 

 captured long series of small A. coridon in the high mass of the 

 Sibillini mountains in the province of Macerata. These were 

 absolutely identical with those which they had previously found on the 

 Mainarde mountains. 



I concluded therefore that A. coridon was an exclusively summer 

 butterfly and was much surprised when I saw at Geneva in Switzer- 

 land, in the collections of Dr. Reverdin and Prof. Blachier, some fine 

 series of A. coridon captured in April at Pardigon in the department of 

 the Var (France). 



In 1911 I came to Florence and found in the Verity collection 

 some vernal specimens of A. coridon. Dr. Verity explained to me that 

 on the hills round Florence A. coridon has two distinct generations. 

 He added that on Mount Fanna, 650 metres above Fiesole, he had taken 

 first in August and then in September two forms, which, though 

 flying in the same locality, appeared so different as to seem individuals 

 of two distinct species. 



In the spring of 1914, my family went to explore systematically 

 Mount Morello, about eleven kilometres distant from Florence, quite 

 certain of finding A. coridon of the vernal season, but instead they did 

 not see a single one in the spring, and it was only in the month of 

 August that they were able to capture a fine and resplendent series of 

 A. coridon, differing not only from the Mainarde and Sibillini 

 specimens, but also from those which Dr. Verity had collected in the 

 December, 15th, 1917. 



