■86 THE entomologist's kecord. 



Z). pandora well out by June 11th with plenty of JJrenthis daphne, and, 

 less commonly Ar;/i/nnis. ai/laia. Of the "skippers," I may note 

 Erynnis orientalis which occurred everywhere singly from the beginning 

 of May till after mid June, and a fine Hesperia malvae ab. taraa taken 

 in mid June, a very late date it would seem for so southerly a locality, 

 though I am bound to admit that I have never seen this species near 

 Constantinople in April. Bithi/.f (jnercus was well out, despite the 

 early June rains, at the end of June, and of a series of fourteen 

 specimens, four males and ten females taken then, six $ s were more 

 or less of the ab. beliis. All were large specimens, though smaller 

 than those which I have seen from Cyprus, 



Parair/e roxelana was commoner than in the previous year, and the 

 Satyrids, Satyrns circe, S. herinione (syriaca) and Hipparchia seinele very 

 numerous with the common Theclids, Nurclinannia ilicis &nd X.acaciae, 

 though I am afraid I neglected the latter species. I paid two visits to 

 Kutchiik-Tchekmedjo and on the first, April 25th, took a short series 

 of Ant/wcharis helia but little else. Odonata w^ere in great evidence 

 that day, Libdlnla depresxa and Brachytron jivatenae {liafniense) abound- 

 ing. I may add that I took the handsome Anax androuiache 9 in the 

 Belgrade Forest in June. The specimen had just seized a large 2 

 Epinephele Jintina. On my second visit to Kiitchiik-Tchekmedje on 

 Juh^ 25th, I took a few specimens of the second brood of Erynnis 

 orientalix with various common things and noted frequency of rather 

 worn Macroylossa croatica. I did not come across Ay Hades [Polyoin- 

 viatns) thersitc-s. After this I had no collecting save for a quarter 

 of an hour in the Club Garden at Constantinople, where I took a 

 couple of Polyyonia eyea, a species which is not uncommon at Con- 

 stantinople but which one generally finds on ruined towers, high up on 

 old walls and in similar inaccessible places. When you do see it at 

 Constantinople within reach of you it is generally in the middle of a 

 crowded street where butterfly nets are not carried. 



Asiatic Side. 



I worked the Gyok-su localities in April, finding Thais i>oly.vena 

 var. Cassandra decidedly local and uncommon, and making few obser- 

 vations of interest save an attempt at coupling between a male 

 Loweia durilis, and a female Euniicia phlaeas. I watched the insects for 

 upwards of five minutes. The female phlaeas kept running along the 

 blades of short grass which covered the spot, followed by the male 

 dorilis, and from time to time stopping, with wings extended and 

 fanning, only to move away as soon as dorilis approached and 

 touched her. I w^as watching this courtship with intense interest 

 when a vagrant sfoecimen of Colias ednsa disturbed the pair ; dorilis 

 rose and nearly fell a victim to a dragonfly, I think an immature 

 Libellnla depressa, which made a swoop at him and effectually 

 frightened him ofl'. 



Larvfe of Melitaea trivia were common here as at Kiathane, but 

 most of the larger ones which I took home proved to be stung. The 

 larvje were not too easy to rear, requiring a constant supply of fresh 

 mullein leaves. On some plants of mullein I found as many as half-a- 

 dozen larvae of M. trivia which always seemed to me very conspicuous. 



I tQok Melitaea cinxia at Yakadjili on April 19th, I think my notes 

 nave unfortunately been left with my collections in good hands at 



