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ing a female with a mixture of fulvous and whitish spaces, which, 

 according to hiiai, represents a distinct race from Liguria (Genoa) ; it 

 must here be observed that Weismann never gave the name at all, but 

 simply mentioned an intermediate race from that locality, and secondly 

 that such a race in no way exists there. Rocci kindly collected a series 

 for me, and I find it is identical with the Florentine one, i.e., egerides, 

 race italica, with not a vestige of aegeria, and whitish markings only 

 in worn female specimens. 



Satyr IIS statiliniis, Hufn. I have in my original paper made a 

 survey of the very numerous local races of this very variable species, 

 and shown that they can easily be grouped according to certain charac- 

 ters corresponding to more extensive regions : Northern group, Hibero- 

 Afriean group, group of the lowlands of the rest of Southern Europe, 

 group of the mountains of Southern France, group of the Apennine 

 and also of lower localities of Central Italy when not under the in- 

 fluence of maritime climate. It would be too long even to make a 

 summary of the characters of these groups and of their races, so that 

 I am obliged to limit myself here to a few observations. Allionia, 

 Fabr., is one of those names which has been widely used abusively, all 

 the large southern races having been included in it, no matter how 

 different they were from each other. The original description is very 

 brief, and the only clue we have as to the race it should be restricted to is 

 the locality of the type, Portugal ; this at pnce limits it to the very 

 distinct Hibero-African group and excludes it from any race of all the 

 other groups. A race which has not yet been described is that of S.-W. 

 France, which I propose calling burdigalae, from a series from Bordeaux 

 in my coll.; its small size and very slightly scalloped wings would 

 include it in the northern group of races, but the deep black pattern of 

 the underside, standing out on a white ground-colour, make it more 

 similar to the southern races, so that the mixture of characters makes 

 it quite distinct and transitional. In the S.-E. of France a form is 

 produced quite different from all others by the unusually wide white 

 band, which crosses both fore- and hindwing on underside, and by the 

 washing of white scales on the latter, which reduces the whole of the 

 dark pattern in extent and sharpness, producing an effect rather as in 

 the fidia of that region ; I should call it fidiaefoemis (types from 

 Grasse in my coll.) : it flies with other individual forms similar to 

 mariiiorea, Vrty.. in which the white is extensive, but the black pattern 

 is also prominent; the latter is the prevailing form on the south side 

 of the Gulf of Spezia ; further south it becomes very rare, and it is 

 replaced on the Tuscan coast by micromaritima ; here the white spaces 

 are very much reduced and to a great extent replaced by a gray 

 shadowing, which shows off the black pattern less well. Still further 

 south, in the Latiam and down to Sicily, a similar race, but of much 

 larger size, in fact one of the largest known, exists ; it has been called 

 maritinia by Rostagno, but unfortunately this name was preoccupied 

 by Oberthiir for a race oi briseis, so that it is necessary to substitute it 

 by that of rostagnoi. Another transitional race, lilie burdigalae, 

 between the northern and the southern group exists in Lower Austria 

 (norica, mihi) ; it is small, has but slightly scalloped wings, and the 

 upperside is light brown, very light in female; on the other hand the 

 underside of hindwings is very variegated, on account of a wide white 



