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antiopa, Vanessa io, Aglais urticae (only one taken). Polygonia 

 c-album, Limenitis Camilla, Apatura iris (seen at Avignon), 

 Charaxes jasius (seen near Amelie-les-Bains). 



Satyrid^. — Pararge megaera, P. egeria, Satyrus hermione, S. 

 jidia, S. alcyone, S. circe, S. statilimts, Enodia dryas, Hipparchia 

 briseis, H. semele, H. arethusa, Epinephele jurtina var. hispulla, 

 E. tithonus, E. ida, Coenonympha pamphilus, Erebia epiphron 

 var. cassiope, E. neoridas, E. tyndarus var. rondoui, M'elanargia 

 galatea. 



FUBTHEK NOTES ON SARROTHRIPUS REVAYANA, 



SCOP. 



By W. G. Sheldon, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



At the sale of the concluding part of the Farn Collection on 

 the 4th inst. the rather extensive series of this species came 

 into my possession ; and as it included three very interesting 

 specimens, I am writing this note as an addenda to my paper on 

 S. revayana which appeared in vol. hi of this magazine. In this 

 paper I alluded to the supposed type-specimen of ab. stoninus 

 described by Curtis, and which is at present in the possession of 

 Prof. Image. Now this specimen was formerly in the collection of 

 Dr. P. B. Mason, who acquired it from the late Edwin Shepherd, 

 whose collection he purchased " en bloc." Unfortunately it does 

 not agree with Curtis's description of ab. stoninus, and I have 

 therefore named it ab. sagittata, and figured it, tig. 4 on plate. 

 I have also figured the true ab. stonimts, fig. 5. Now amongst 

 Farn's specimens is an example of ab. stoninuz labelled as such, 

 or rather as "ab. stonanus, Sheppard."* This example was on 

 one of the old round-headed pins and would thus in any case 

 date ante 1850, or possibly about the date (1829) in which year 

 Curtis named the aberration. The specimen was no doubt 

 acquired by Farn at the sale of the late A. F. Sheppard 's 

 Collection (with which was incorporated that of E. Sheppard) 

 in 1889. I am wondering whether the specimen was not the 

 actual type that Curtis described. Curtis never possessed a 

 type, and apparently the example he described was in the 

 possession of a collector, Stone, well known in those days. Curtis 

 says it was taken at Darenth. Both Stephens and Westwood, 

 however, speak of it as taken at Birchwood. They each write 

 of one example only, and I cannot find any evidence that more 

 than one was known in those days, when it was unquestionably 

 extremely rare. In any case an example of such an age 

 labelled 'as ab. stonanus is satisfactory proof that the old 

 Lepidopterists correctly understood the form. 



* Stephens and Westwood both corrected Curtis's ungrammatical nam.- o( 

 Stoninus to stonanus; but as Curtis himself adhered to his first name, although he 

 had several opportunities of correcting it, I have, following the law of priority, 

 adhered to his nomenclature. 



