318 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAB XXIII. 1916. 



Morpho alexandrowna Draco 



This form has absolutely nothing to do with M. godarti, as Fruhstorfer puts it, 

 hinting that it may be the <J of alexandra Hew. It is the Central and Southern 

 Peruvian race of menelaus Linn., with the dark border slightly less pronounced than 

 in rnelacheilus Staud. 



Morpho alexandra Hew. 



This insect has been rightly placed by Fruhstorfer under godarti. I have 

 been able to definitely discover, with the help of Mr. Watson of Manchester, that 

 the type is no longer in existence, but there is no doubt that it was a specimen of 

 the S.E. Peruvian race of godarti Gue"r. The Tring Museum possesses 22 c? 3 

 and 1 ? from the Carabaya and Rio Inambari districts from G. Ockenden, and 

 1 ? from Yahuarma3 r o from H. and C. Watkins. 



[Hartgen's unpublished sketches mentioned in the preceding pages are con- 

 tained in the Tring Museum Library.] 



THE NAME OE THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN CORMORANT. 



By De. ERNST HARTERT. 



Anted, pp. 293-5, 1 discussed the names of the two subspecies of large European 

 Cormorants, and came to the conclusion that Brehm's name arboreus was doubtful, 

 and that subcormoranns (of the same date) was preferable. This discussion is now 

 unnecessary, because the name subcormoranus was published already seven years 

 before that of arboreus — viz. in Brehm's Ornis i. p. 42 (1824 — " Holland"), and is 

 therefore alone valid by priority. 



This name is one of many of Brehm's names which were published years before 

 the dates under which they have hitherto been quoted in literature. A full list of 

 all these earlier dates will be published in the Novitates Zoologicae for 1917. 



