36 BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



f erred the name to A. thetis with a diagnosis not agreeing with 

 the figures. Following the publication of iStaudinger's Catalog, 2nd 

 ed., came the period when a,uthors ceased to refer to original 

 figures and descriptions, but accepted the Catalog as biblically 

 inspired, instead of a mere copy of the work of Keferstein, Lederer, 

 and others, and full of errors. In 1900, Gillmer reverted to the 

 original view that cinnus was an aberration of coridon, a view that was 

 followed by Staudinger in the 3rd edition of his Catalog in 1901, 

 though he uses the name as Gerhard (and not as Hiibner) does, and 

 gives the diagnosis " alis posticis subtus non ocellatis," for his cinnus. 

 In 1902, therefore, we found ourselves exactly where Boisduval and 

 the other entomologists were between 1840 and 1871. Evidently 

 absolutely ignorant of the literature, Gaschet renamed the form 

 lucretia, followed in due course by South (as late as 1906). In the 

 meantime, Riihl, evidently without any search whatever, renamed it 

 so/uii, so that the insect has been well-supplied with names by the 

 continental entomologists. Blachier notes (in litt.) two 2 s with all 

 four wings without ocelli, from Thoiry and Fully, and Muschamp 

 captured a $ on the Dent du Midi, July 25th, 1909. It is reported 

 as occurring rarely with the type at Weinbohla, near Dresden ; Traut- 

 mann notes two 9 s from Jena ; Dupont states that, at Pont de 

 l'Arche, it appears to occur only among the 2 s, although he took one 

 of each sex in August, 1887, in Vaud and the Valais. Aigner-Abafi 

 notes it from Hungary, at Budapest, Isaszegh, etc. Verity, under the 

 name of sohni, reports the form as being very frequent in the Florence 

 district. It occurs in England with the type in almost all localities, 

 and Pickett, who has made a remarkable effort to obtain large numbers 

 of aberrations of this species, has four $ s and four $ s, taken chiefly 

 near the South Foreland on the Kent coast. He notes the capture on 

 August 15th, 1903, of 2 pairs in cop., both $ s and $ s being of this 

 form. We have already dealt with this form (antea, p. 18). 



jS. ab. cinnus, Gerh., " Mon.," p. 17, pi. xxxii., figs. 2a-b (1S52); Mever-Dur, 

 " Scbmett. Schweiz," p. 87 (1852); Staud., "Cat.," 3rd ed., p. 86 (1901); Wheeler, 

 " Butts. Switz.," p. 32 (1903). Con/don var., Treitschke, " Die Schmett.," x., pt. 

 1, p. 67 (1831); Bell.," Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr.," ser. 3, vi., p. 310 (1858); Girard, 

 " Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr.," ser. 4, v., p. 114 (1865); South, " Ent.," xx., p. 6. pi. i., 

 figs. 2, 3 (1887); Sykes, "Ent.," xxiv., p. 266 (1891); Barr., " Lep. Br. Is.." pi. 

 xii., fig. ly (1893); Sladen, "Ent.," xxxv., p. 275 (1902); Leonh., "Ent. Zeits. 

 Gub.," xvi., p. 50 (1902); "Ins. Borse," xxii., p. 128, figs. 4-9 (1905); South, 

 "Br. Butts.," pi. cxviii., fig. 9 (1906). Obsoleta, Bartel, " Ent. Zeit. Guben," 

 xviii., p. 115 in part (1904). — The forewings with the usual submedian row of spots 

 more or less well developed ; the hindwings with the submedian row obsolete. 



This (postico-obsoleta) form was figured under the name cinnus by Ger- 

 hard, who noted it as occurring very rarely in Austria and France. His 

 figure is that of a $ , the underside with submedian row of spots and the 

 discoidal on the forewings, the discoidal only on the hindwings ; the 

 orange marginal eye-spots or lunules present on all the wings. Our 

 own examples come from Kent, etc. South notes [Ent., xx., p. 6) S] 

 mens from Ventnor in which the hindwings are without any spots 

 other than the discoidal, and the ocellated character of the fore- 

 wings almost normal, lie figures (pi. i., figs, 2-8) a J and $ of this 

 form. This appears to be a comparatively common form of the 

 obsolete series ; we have seen probably two or three dozen examples 

 in various J British collections, and we have repeatedly taken it abroad. 



