— 44 — 



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Apennine race of A. coridon (see Nat. Hist. Brit. 

 Butts., vol. IV., pp. 22 — 23) ; the forms agree on 

 the whole in having a broad marginal border, but meri- 

 dionalis by no means has this in every case, that of 

 some specimens being very narrow; nor is it, in the 

 latter, bounded by a conspicuous row of whitish arcuate 

 spots as described in rezniceki; these frequentlyj when 

 present at all, divide the broad margin lengthwise, 

 whilst in others they are quite absent. The darkening 

 of the discoidals is far from universal in meridionalis, 

 and even when marked are often very inconspicuous. 

 The marginal spots on the hindwings are large in meri- 

 dionalis, but not so amazingly so as Bartel's description 

 suggests in rezniceki. The underside of the cj s of meri- 

 dionalis is very variable, the colour is occasionally as 

 light as described by Bartel for rezniceki, more often 

 like that noted by Eeverdin for constanti, but frequently 

 much darker than in the latter; the forms agree in the 

 strong development of the metallic blue scaling at 

 the base of the hindwings, and by the spots being large, 

 although not larger than those from certain Piedmont 

 and French localities; they also agree in the strong 

 development of the marginal lunules, but those of the 

 forewings have no orange chevrons in m.eridionalis, 

 and only very weak ones on the hindwings, whilst 

 they are described as an almost unbroken row of red 

 wedge-shaped spots in rezniceki. The Ç s appear to 

 be alike in their brown ground colour, but there is 

 no distinct discoidal lunule on the hindwing in meri- 

 dionalis, nor are the discoidals of either wings edged 

 with pale as described in rezniceki; nor in meridionalis 

 is there an uniform type in the development of the 

 marginal band of orange lunules on the upperside, 

 the normal variation in this respect being shown in 

 a fair series of examples, whilst in none are the marginal 

 spots edged with white as described in rezniceki. The 

 Ç forms agree again in the strongly-developed spotting 

 of the underside, but the red lunules in meridionalis 

 do not appear to be so uniformly strongly developed 

 and brightly coloured as Bartel notes for rezniceki; 

 nor do we trace any close similarity between the co- 

 louring of these and the Engadine specimens where 

 they appear to vary a good deal locally. In size our 

 'meridionalis vary from — (J s 34 _ mm, — 41 mm., $ s 

 31 mm. — 37 mm. Bartel gives those of rezniceki — (^ s 

 29 mm. — 30 mm., Ç s 29 mm. — 31 mm. a difference that 

 can hardly be due to a different mode of measurement 

 (we measure the size of the insect from the apex to 

 centre of thorax X 2). Kowland-Brown notes (in- litt.) 

 that he has the var. meridionalis from Brantes, Vaucluse, 

 laken in May, 1907. 



ß. var. rezniceki, Bartel, ,,Ent. Zeits. Gub.", xviii., 

 p. 117, (1904); Seitz, „Gross-Schmett.", i., p. 315 (1909;) 

 Rebel, ,,Berge's Schmett.", 9th ed., p. 72 (1909). — The 

 cj above lighter than var. apennina, pale greenish-blue 

 (greenish-silver); a fine black discoidal line on the fore- 

 wing; the marginal border, of the latter very broad, 

 blackish-grey, lighter than in typical Engadine specimens, 

 not sharply defined inwardly, but bounded by a conspi- 

 cuous row of whitish arcuate spots; in some examples 

 there appear behind these latter a row of fairly conspi- 

 cuous blackish spots, which seem to be very finely edged 

 externally with whitish. The hindwings are also very 

 strikingly distinct, in that, in front of the black border a 

 row of black spots is placed, which are three times as large 

 as usual, and have a fairly broad whitish border, in con- 

 sequence of which they stand out very strongly. In front 

 of this row of spots a blackish-grey clouding, in the form 

 of a narrow stripe, is visible; the central spots are not 

 rarely bordered with red as occurs in ordinary coridon ab. 

 suavis. The underside fairly light, whitish on the fore- 

 wing, light grey on the hindwing, the latter with the blue- 



green much more extended along the inner margin and 

 the base, and more strongly marked than in other forms. 

 The underside is, however, more specially distinguished by 

 the exceedingly strong- spotting which gives the insect a 

 very different facies, approaching that of A. bellargus; 

 the size of the marginal row of spots is specially striking, 

 but the lunules are also greatly increased in size ; the sub- 

 marginal row of red wedge-shaped spots is also very pro- 

 nounced, almost unbroken. The white bordering of the 

 spots of the hindwings, which is also fairly broad on the 

 forewings, gives the~ insect a very light appearance on the 

 underside. $. The characters less markedly pronounced, 

 which is the case with other local races of A. coridon in 

 this sex. but still the form is distinguishable, being lighter 

 on the upperside than are $ s from the Engadine, leaning 

 strongly towards brown ; the discoidal spot of both f ore- 

 and hindwings is noticeable, very slightly bordered with 

 light; an obsolescent marginal band of red spots, edged 

 on both sides with very faint black lunules; hindwings 

 w-ith strong black-bordered red spots edged on both sides 

 with strong black-bordered red spots; the marginal spots 

 also edged with white. 



(1,0 be continued.) 



091 



Literaturbericht. 



Im A^erlag von Julius Springer in Berlin ist in 

 3. Auflage erschienen :' Julius Gerhardt, Ver- 

 zeichnis der Käfer Schlesiens (preussisch 

 und österreichisch), geordnet nach dem Catalogus 

 coleopterorum Europae, vom Jahre 1906, 8°, XVI, 

 432 pp., Mk. 10.— broschiert. 



Wie der bekannte schlesische Coleopterologe in 

 seiner Vorrede sagt, ^ wird eine Neubearbeitung dieses 

 Verzeichnisses nicht nur dadurch gerechtfertigt, dass 

 seit 1891 (Zeit des Erscheinens des Schlussheftes der 

 Käfer Schlesiens) eine Anzahl neuer schlesischer Käfer, 

 sowie neue Fundorte schon bekannter publiziert worden 

 sind, sondern dadurch, dass manche Fehler berichtigt 

 und die Nomenklatur vielfach durch das Prioritäts- 

 gesetz bedingte Verbesserungen erfuhr. Auch ver- 

 langte die systematische Ordnung des neuesten 1906 

 erschienenen Käferkatalogs besondere Berücksichtigung. 

 So hat sich der Verfasser zu einer 3. Auflage entschlossen, 

 aus der wir ersehen, dass Schlesien sich zur Zeit 4457 

 selbständiger Käferarten erfreut. Besonders reich 

 sind die Familien der Curculioniden und Carabiden 

 vertreten, erstere mit 623, letztere mit 383 Spezies, 

 sodann die Cinysomeliden mit 381 Arten, während 

 die Staphyhniden die höchste Vertretung mit 939 auf- 

 weisen. Neben den Fundortsangaben finden sich so- 

 weit das möglich war, Notizen über die Biologie. Das 

 Verzeichnis kann mit Eecht den Coleopterologen em- 

 pfohlen werden. 



Beiträge zur I n s e k t e n - F a u n a B ö h - 

 m e n s. VIL Die Feder motten Böhmens 

 (Pterophoridae und Orneodidae) von Eegierungsrat Dr. 

 1 1 k a r N i c k e r 1. Herausgegeben von der Ge- 

 sellschaft für Physiokratie in Prag. 



Mit diesem Verzeichnis schliessen die in den Bei- 

 trägen mitgeteilten Kleinschmetterlinge. Die Ptero- 

 phoriden zählen in 8 Gattungen 30 Arten, die Orneo- 

 diden in 1 Gattung 5 Arten. Auch diese Arbeit enthält 

 neben Fundortsangaben, Notizen über Futterpflanzen, 

 Zeit des Vorkommens etc. Sie sehliesst sich den voran- 

 gegangenen bezüglich sorgfältiger Bearbeitung an. 



Hétérocères nouveaux de TAmé- 

 r i q u e du Sud par Paul D o g n i n. 



Als selbständige Publikation erscheinend. Fase. I 

 bereits vorliegend, enthält eine grössere Anzahl Neu- 

 beschreibungen. 



Eigentum von Fritz Euhl's Erben, Zürich. — Redaktion: M. Kühl, Zürich V. — Fritz Lehmanns Verlag, G. m. b. H., Stuttgart. 



Druck der Schell' sehen Buchdruckerei, V. Kraemer, Heilbronn. 



