18 BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



the female agrees quite tolerably. The male from Frivaldsky's collec- 

 tion, on which Herrich-Schaffer founded terreni, came probably from 

 Smyrna, from which I possess a similar male. In Lederer's collection 

 there was a similar pale male from Beyrout, and also another $ and 

 two ? s which look very different from Mersin, which, however, corres- 

 pond with each other. These three specimens have prevailingly brown 

 forewings with a comparatively broad white transverse band, not sharply 

 defined on inner side in the $ , the light transverse band is also distinctly 

 continued on the hindwings (variegated with paler). For the present 

 I consider these also to be aberrations of var. terreni!' 1 The Transcau- 

 casian terreni in the British Museum coll. is a much paler form than 

 those under the same name from Europe, and the fore- and hindwings 

 are without the red tinge of the latter. 



i. var. maculosa, Rogenh., " Ver. z.-b. Ges. Wien.," xli., Sitzb. p. 8b (Dec, 

 1891) ; Staud., "Iris," iv., p. 348 (1892) ; "Cat.," 3rd ed., p. 121 (1901) ; Auriv., 

 "Iris," vii., p. 151 (1894). Bathseba, Staud., " Iris," iv., p. 260 (Feb. 1892) ; p. 348 

 (r892) ; Kirby, " Cat.," p. 829 (1892). — Gastropachatrifoliivax. maculosa. A smaller 

 form ; the male distinguished on the upper side by a brown median area with a dark 

 central dot. The base and marginal area, pale clay-yellow with darker and often 

 partly chequered fringes. tlindwings uniform red-brown, costa paler. Body and 

 antennas ochre-yellow ; underside ochre-yellow with a rather broad brown common 

 band ; fringes dark. ? , above uniform pale red-brown with a ring-shaped central dot 

 to both wings ; resembling a pale $ of var. medicagitiis ; the underside paler and 

 without a band, g , 37 mm. — 41 mm., ? 45 mm. Specimens in the Wiskott collection 

 and in the Royal Imperial Museum at Vienna (Rogenhofer). Localities: Syria, 

 Palestine (Staudinger). 



Staudinger independently re-named this insect within a couple of 

 months of Rogenhofer's communication and described it as follows : 

 "B. trifolii var. bathseba, strongly aberrant small form. Paulus sent a 

 considerable number of bred specimens from Jerusalem. $ s 32 mm. 

 — 40 mm., $s 38 mm. — 52 mm. This, therefore, is the smallest form 

 of trifolii, which otherwise is near or identical with many specimens of 

 the very variable codes from Sicily and the $ s of which are very little 

 different from medicaginis $ s, brown and yellow (varied), sometimes 

 almost quite brown in the broad yellowish transverse lines (narrower 

 transverse bands), sometimes almost entirely light-brownish-yellow with 

 brown transverse bands on brownish basal half of forewings. Some- 

 times the brown hindwings have a sharply marked yellow transverse 

 band. The hindwings are occasionally quite light brownish-yellow, with 

 a very indistinct median shade. On the pale underside on all the wings 

 a dark (brown) transverse line sharply bordered with light outside as 

 in var. codes. The 2 s of bathseba are sometimes very near $ s of var. 

 medicaginis. On the upper side always light brownish-yellow with brown 

 transverse band edged externally with pale. The dark central spot is, 

 as in the males, generally very weak, sometimes not white-centred and, 

 in a small $ , both it and the transverse bands are entirely absent. 

 On the underside, the hindwings only bear a rather broad and generally 

 somewhat obsolete brown transverse band like ? s of codes, whereas 

 this is generally narrower in those ( $ s) of medicaginis. In any case this 

 small form, with broader transverse bands, &c, is so different from 

 B. salomonis that no one could take them to be the same species (Iris, 

 iv., p. 260). Later Staudinger noted (/oc. cit., p. 348) that bathseba fell 

 before the var. maculosa of Rogenhofer. In the 3rd edition of the 

 Catalog, Staudinger diagnoses it as : " Minor, inconstans, trans, ad. var. 

 coclem" 



