48 THE entomologist's record, 



Thecla {Nordmannia) acaciae, Fabr., race italica, mihi. — Courvoisier 

 has shown that the nymotypical race is the oriental one, usuall)^ 

 called abdominalis, Gerh. ; he has called the western race nosti'as. The 

 latter, however, includes more than one local race, and the Tuscan 

 race is certainly very different from the more northern ones by its 

 lighter and more reddish tinge on the underside and by the marked 

 reduction and paleness of the whole pattern : white spaces, black 

 streaks, and fulvous lunules. 



Thecla (Klngia) spini, Schiff., race minuta, mihi. — Oberthiir has 

 given the name of major to the very large race from the Maritime 

 Alps ; in my Italian specimens from Chiot (Piedmont) and in the 

 French ones from Moulinet, the pattern is also very conspicuous on 

 underside and two or more fulvous patches exist on upperside of hind- 

 wing. A specimen from the Aurunci Mountains, near Caserta, col- 

 lected at 1,200 m., corresponds to the same race, but specimens found 

 by Querci in the Sibillini Mountains (Piceno) at the same altitude are 

 exactly opposite in character ; they are small (2i-25 mm.), very dark 

 black on upperside, with only a faint fulvous patch at the tornus ; all 

 the pattern on underside is reduced in extent and pale ; the white 

 streaks strongly sinuous. 



Bithys quercits, L., race interjeota, mihi. The extreme variations 

 of this species consist in the nymotypical northern race, and in iherica, 

 Stdg., from Spain and Algeria. The race of Central Italy cannot be 

 referred to either, as it is by its variations intermediate between the 

 two, never reaching the most highly characteristic forms of either one 

 or the other, the brownish underside of the former, with wide-spread 

 blackish pattern and vivid orange lunules, or the pale pearly grey 

 underside of the latter, with ill-defined pattern and yellow lunules ; a 

 distinctive name becomes, in consequence, necessary. 



Gonepteryx rhamni, L., race transiens, Vrty., second gen. secunda, 

 mihi, and third gen. tertia, mihi. The second and third brood are 

 different from the first, a fact which has not been sufficiently recog- 

 nised ; in both sexes the underside is often of a fine reddish ochre, 

 most individuals being of a pale ochreous colour or pale greenish or 

 white, when the reddish and greenish tinges are in such a proportion 

 as to neutralize each other ; in the first brood, instead, vivid green 

 specimens are frequent and ochreous ones very scarce. Independently 

 of seasonal polymorphism, I propose the names of a'-iridissima, albes- 

 cens, and ochracea for the three extreme individual forms, which are 

 also produced by the northern nymotypical race, and of which I possess 

 British specimens. 



(To be continued.) 



:ig^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Treacle in December. — ^Having never previously treacled later in 

 the year than early November, I tried the experiment on December 

 14th last — a very close evening — and treacled a few trees in the wood 

 near at hand. These had been very productive earlier in the autumn, 

 and I was interested to see if a warm evening, so late in the year, 



