110 NoviTATEs ZooT.ontrAE XXIV. 1917. 



We never found this insect in the cast of Algeria except at Khenchela, and 

 in the west it was far from common. 



The Tring series comprises 230 specimens. 



The Britisli Museum possesses 10 individuals of this form : 5 Algeria, 

 Crowley bequest ; 1 Algiers (Heyne), Leech coll. ; 1 Lambessa ex Elwes coll. ; 

 3 Lambessa, June 1885, L. Bleuse ex Elwes coll. In addition to the above 

 10 specimens the Museum has 2 purchased from Heyne through Janson and 

 labelled " Morocco." They appear to me not to be lucasi and certainly never 

 came from Morocco. 



Miss Fountaine records it from Teniet-el-Haad, Maj' and June 1904. 



5to. Melanargia galathea meade-waldoi subsp. nov. 



This form differs from g. lucasi by the black markings on the upperside 

 being much wider and more pronounced, thus bearing the same relation to 

 iucasi as procida does to galathea. It shows the same differences from procida 

 as lucasi does from galathea. Type S, Tamarouth. 



1 "Maroc Meridional" ex coll. Bethune Baker. 



2 Tamarouth, Morocco, June 1904, W. Riggenbach. 



The British Museum has 6 specimens, Meade-Waldo. Mr. Meade-Waldo 

 records Tsauritz Entsagauz and Imentalla, July 1901. 



55. Melanargia syllius pelagia Oberth. 



Melanargia syUiiis pelagia Oberthiir. Etud. Lepidop. Comp. Fasc. V. p. 188. pi. Ix. f. 547 (Sebdou, 

 Geryville). 



We never came across this species, and Mauretanian examples are absent 

 from the British Museum collections. It is apparently a rare species in 

 Mauretania; 



1 Titen Yaya, June 1915, Rotrou. 



2 Guelt-es-Stel, April 1913 ! ! Faroult. 

 23 Djelfa, May 1913, Faroult. 



56. Melanargia ines ines (Hoffm.). 



Papilio ines Hoffmannsegg. III. Mag. vol. iii. p. 205 (1804) (nom. nov. pro Papilio Ihetis Hiibner, 

 Samml. Eur. Schmetl. vol. i. pi. 47. ff. 196-197 (1779) (nom. praeoc. Papilio thetis Rottenburg, 

 Naturf. vol. vi. p. 24. No. 11 (1775)). 



This insect is one of the commonest Satyrids tliroughout Algeria, and my 

 series of 630 specimens is only the pick out of some 1,600-1,800 specimens 

 collected in Algeria during the years 1909-1914. Herr Fritz Wagner, Intern. 

 Entom. Zeitsch. G-uben. vol. vii. p. 111. cum fig. (1913), has described as ines 

 var. fathme, a series of ines taken by him at Tunis close to the seashore. He 

 characterises his supposed new form by stating that the black is strongly re- 

 duced, and tlierefore considers the insect to be intermediate between ines and 

 arge Sulz., which he consequently considers to be subspecies of one species. 



Before considering the claims to distinction of jathme Wagn.. I must point 

 out here that Herr Wagner is in error concerning arg'e and its relationship to 



