NOTES ON COLLECTING. 129 



band-like space and of a suffusion of white scales also at base, remind- 

 ing one distinctly of that character in fuliaeforuih ; the two median 

 streaks and the dark shadinfi^ round the ocelli are not black, but dark 

 brown. Still another interesting race is that which flies in the country 

 of fatiia, and which acquires a superficial resemblance to it, so much so 

 that I should call it fatuaeformis, describing it from specimens of 

 Phanaraki in Asia Minor ; it is small and but little scalloped ; the 

 male is deep black above ; ocellus of apex small and very prominently 



• encircled by fulvous on underside ; white band of forewings on this 

 surface rather wide, whereas on hindwing it is not proportionately 

 developed, and grey instead of white; moreover it is entirely covered 

 over by a dense veil of extremely minute and fine streaks (compare 

 with crasseniaculosa, Vrty., of certain Italian localities, such as the 

 north side of the Gulf of Spezia, in which they are much thicker, 



■ coarser, and less numerous) ; the two median streaks and the shading- 

 round ocelli are dark chestnut and inconspicuous ; in the female an 

 indistinct inedian greyish band is discernible on the upperside, and the 

 two ocelli of forewing are surrounded by a wide fulvous space, sharply 



• defined outwardly, such as is frequent in fatua, but exists in no other 

 statilintis I know of. 



Saiynni circe, Fabr., race itala, mihi. The male generally has an 

 expanse of 58mm., but often even of 62mm.; the female generally 

 varies from 65mm. to 70mm., but I possess one of 80mm.; evidently 

 comes very near the giant illecehra, Frhst., of Hungary, but the white 

 ^band-like space is never as wide as in the latter and, what is very dis- 

 tinctive, never shows any traces of fulvous scaling. 



Hipfiarckia briseis, L., race interjecta, mihi. In the N.-W. of 

 France, there exists a race which, by its underside, darkened in the male 

 by blackish shadings and in the female by a grey suffusion, unmistak- 

 ably belongs to the northern group of races, but which constitutes a 

 transition to the southern group by its wider band-like space on upper- 

 side. It had been noticed by Oberthiir, who also observes that it is 

 identical with the race of the higher altitudes in the Abruzzi. I can 

 confirm this by the comparison of a series from the Charente with one 

 from the Sibillini Mts., 1200m. In localities less elevated the race 



■ dem.imita, Frhst., belonging to the southern group, represents the 

 : species in Central Italy. 



[To he concluded.) 



:]gdOTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Eeferences for Localities.- — Dorset and Dorchester. — Knt. Mo. 

 Mag. L, 121 ; xxxi., 126 (spring) ; EiU.'xix., 118 ; xxii., 282 (chalk) ; 

 xxiii., 101, 246; xxv., 196 (sugar); xxxv., 288; xxxvi., 20 (sugar, 

 ivy) ; xxxvi., 46, 167. 



LuLwoRTH. — Eiit. XX., 183, 267. 



Lyme Regis. — Ent. xxvi., 302 ; xxxii., 74. 



Swanage. — Ent. Record iii., 207, 209 ; Ent. Mo. Mag. xxix., 191 ; 

 Ent. XXV., 313; xxx.. Ill, 272 ; xxxii., 260. 



Weymouth. — Ent. Record v., 228, 



