130 BR- R. VERITY : REVISION OF THE 



Thus Rijber is fully justified in having named the race from Africa and 

 Asia Minor, which is transitional to farinosa, and I think it equally useful 

 to distinouish the race from Southern Europe, which is intermediate between 

 the race of Linnseus and that of E,ober : I therefore suggest giving it the 

 name transiens, taking as typical the Italian specimens in my collection. 



*GoNEPTERYX CLEOPATRA [17G7], A (J , which is obviously Linnsean, 

 and bears his label, unmistakably belongs to the North African race, as may 

 be seen by its rich colouring, by the orange patch of fore wings nearly 

 reaching the external margin, by the underside of a vivid green with a 

 slightly milky appearance. 



All these characters correspond to those of the race which Rober named 

 mauritaniea ; furthermore, Linnseus only gives Barbaria as habitat of this 

 species. There is, in consequence, no doubt that the nimotypical race should 

 be the African one, and as the European one is quite distinct from it, I 

 propose to designate it by the name of euwjx^'if'^^ taking as typical that which 

 flies during the spring in the neighbourhood of Florence (Italy) ; the form 

 which is produced by extreme heat has already received the name of italica, 

 Gerh., but it is by no means the commonest form even in the height of 

 summer. 



*Charaxes jasox [1758] =jasius [1767]. The Liunean specimens are 

 a male and a female of the North African race, as proved by their large size, 

 dark colouring, long tails, and chiefly by the very small size of the greyish- 

 blue spots which, on the hind wing, precede the yellow marginal band. 



As in the case of G. deopatra, the only locality given by Linnseus in the 

 XII. edit, of Syst. Nat. is Barbaria (in the X. edit, and in Mus. Lud. Ulr. 

 the locality " India " is obviously erroneous !). The nimotypical race is 

 thus proved to be the African one, and, as that which flies north of the 

 Mediterranean can be constantly separated from it by its inferior average 

 size, by its lighter colouring, shorter tails, and much wider and more pro- 

 minent blue spots on hind wing, often blending in a continuous band, I 

 think it should be designated by a name. The specimens which are to the 

 greatest degree removed from the African ones are, to my knowledge, the 

 Tuscan, and I propose to take them as typical of a race septentrionalis. 



*Apatdra IRIS [1758]. There exist four specimens which are obviously 

 Liunean, and two English specimens added by Smith. Of the first, one is 

 a male of the insect generally known as ilia, and bears a label of Linnseus, 

 " iris'^ ; another is a male of its form clytie, and equally bears the name '•'■iris'''' 

 in Linnseus's handwriting ; a third is a female of this last ; and a fourth is a 

 male of the species generally called iris : it is set so as to show the undez'side. 



If we now turn to the Linnean literature on the subject, we find that 

 Linnseus's original description, which he afterwards simply transcribed, is 



