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conneciion with that species, should be considered to have claim to 

 specific rank and a name. The designation above given has reference 

 to the sub-equal condition of the branches of the penis-sheaths, which 

 is the most salient character. 



ScHizoPELEX PESTiVA, Eev. and Synop., p. 235, and S. geanj^, 

 p. 236, and First Add. Suppl., p. 23. — I am now quite confii'med in an 

 opinion I have long held to the effect that granjce is only a colour- 

 condition of festiva, in which the anterior-wings are wholly yellow. 

 In Albarda's collection there exist from San Ildefonso (E. Pictet's 

 locality) several examples of typical festiva and two of the yellow 

 form. There is apparently no structural difference whatever in these 

 two forms. It is singular that nearly all the numerous examples from 

 Portugal examined by me {cf. First Add. Suppl., p. 23) pertain to the 

 unicolorous yellow condition, and that, as I now see, not one of them 

 is a typical yesifu;(2, although some few are intermediate. 8. granjce 

 must sink as a species, though it may be retained as a varietal name 

 for the unicolourous yellow condition. 



Silo Geaellsi, Eev. and Synop., p. 249, and Suppl., p. lii. — A 

 ^ from San Ildefonso, Spain, in Albarda's collection, quite agrees 

 with those previously seen, but there is a small triangular apical 

 ventral lobe, which in all probability is retracted in the other examples. 



Theemma gallicum, Eev. and Synop., Suppl., p. Iviii. — From 

 San Ildefonso, Spain (Albarda's collection), I have seen two ^ that I 

 incline to refer here, but the penis is not strongly exserted as is the 

 case in the Pyreneean types. There is no ventral tooth, the presence 

 of which is insisted upon by Brauer in the type of Th. anomalum 

 (Z. c), so they cannot pertain to that species. 



CXENUS INSOLUTUS. 



Philopotaimts iirhaiyus, Eamb., Nevrop , p. 503, nee Pict. C. inso- 

 lutus, McLach., Eev. and Synopsis, 406, pi. xliii, fig. 1, neuration 

 (1878). C fenestratus, Eis, Mitth. schw. ent. GeselL, ix, p. 53 

 (1893). 



Fuscous. Head and pronotum clothed with golden-grey hairs, which become 

 almost whitish between the antennae, and fuscous on the sides of the pronotum. 

 Antennae strong, distinctly crenate within after the basal third, the joints strong, 

 separated (almost moniliform) ; fuscous, but nearly the basal half of each joint is 

 whitish-yellow, so that they are sharply annulate. Palpi fuscescent, clothed with 

 grey hairs. Legs dingy testaceous ; tibiBe and tarsi fuseescent externally (the latter 

 slightly annulate), and clothed with grey hairs. Anterior- wings elongate, with pale 

 grey membrane, very strongly and uniformly clothed with golden-grey pubescence, 



