Sent by Mrs John Knox Tibbits from Portofino Vetta, Riviera di Levante, Italy April 13 1934. 4-13-34 Ophrys aranifera Huds. Cote III 388, Box 312 = O. sphrogles Mill (BTH 464) = O. spherodes Mill SVIT 163. (N.B. also in BTH province outside the BTH range). Ident sure acc to Cote. Lip almost exactly as long as sepals (on freshest flo seems a trifle longer, on oldest flo rather shorter). Sepals really green-vivida spreading. Petals green. Lem with undul- ating edges, 1/2-2/3 as long as and about 1/2 as wide as sepals (SVIT). Lip emarginate at apex but not spiculate. The gaborities (exp on newest flo) are rather more definite > tooth-like than the desc suggests sometimes then under them the margining lip is slightly indented so as to be very obscurely 3-lobed. Marlings form more less a broad H or X. In age these marlings take and the whole lip turns a dirty, dark olive drab shade. Lower bracts usually distinctly longer than flo. Spike very lax, bearing 3-10 flo. (5 specimens, infl only). Flo differ considerably in size on diff. specimens. 4-19-34 Ophrys arachnitiformis Greno Philips. Ident only one pos. acc to Cote. Sepals ivory white (green only m nerve) when young, turning a dirty rose in age. Petals albite glabres. This leaves O. arachnitiformis v O. Bertolonii as only pos. But this differs from O. Ber -- as seen in Mullard in that the lip is squarer.