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Constantinople, and with it a torn specimen of Hoxjteria aniwricanus, 

 many rather large Leptosia ,^inapis, and not much else. I visited Yakadjik 

 again on May 11th, and found Aporia crataei/i well out quite a fortnight 

 earlier than in 1911, and also took Erynnis orientalu, and PohjomwatHs 

 aiiiandits, damaged A(jriade>> (P.) thersites, and one or two other things. 



But my best work on the Asiatic side was done further away from 

 Constantinople. In the first week of May I paid a visit to the lime- 

 stone country round Dil Iskelessi, about 33 miles from Constantinople. 

 To reach this place, a little station on the Anatolian Railway between 

 Constantinople and Ismid, it was necessary to leave Haidar Pasha 

 Station at about 8 a.m., reaching Dil Iskelessi at 10.80. The return 

 train, which it was necessary to catch, reached Dil at about 2.85 p.m., 

 so that one had about four hours' collecting, for all the ground was 

 productive the moment one left the station enclosure. It was mostly 

 down-land with patches of cultivation, plenty of ilex scrub and arbutus 

 in places, and by the little river orchards and very unkempt gardens. 

 The people, all Turks save for the inevitable Greek fisherman, were 

 loutish and I think harmless, though I never ventured in close country 

 more than four hundred or five hundred yards from the railway where 

 there were many workmen and a few engineers of the Baghdad Rail- 

 way Company. Here I made a number of interesting additions to my 

 Constantinople list. In May lliais cen'si/i, of which I saw but failed to 

 catch a large and unmistakeable specimen ; Colias In/ale, of which I 

 caught a single very fresh specimen, and saw another which gave me 

 much exercise; Leptosia dupour/ieli, for which I was already a trifle late 

 in the beginning of May, but which was here decidedly commoner than 

 L. ainajiis ; Cupula sebnis [osiris) which occurred sparingly in a grassy 

 valley between two patches of scrub wood, and fine large specimens of 

 Af/riades {!'.) thetis [bellar(/iis), much larger with paler undersides and 

 less strongly chequered fringes than a series I took at Ventnor early in 

 September, 1913. I took one magnificent underside aberration of 

 A. tlietia, which I hope one day to figure. Lyc^enids were not numerous 

 but I took a good many species, including with those recorded above, A. 

 thersites one or two blue suft'used females, worn Scolitantides baton, Foly- 

 (Diniiatiis ainajidiis, P. icariis, buinot F. seiiiian/us. Plebeiiis an/us (aet/on) 

 did not seem to occur on the limestone, but only on a strip of alluvial 

 soil on the railway bank near the bridge. While butterflies were by 

 no means common, there were a great many species in evidence^ 

 including, as well as the usual Constantinople insects, Paran/e niaera,. 

 Hespcria sidae, H. nialrae, very large and handsome Pjiichlo'e cardaiiiines, 

 Anthocliaris belia and Ijihiclides /lodalirius, which I have never found 

 very common round the Turkish capital. I tried to find the foodplant 

 of /.. dupnncheli and came to the conclusion that it was a species of 

 latJujnis, with reddish-purple flowers which grew amid the scrub and 

 on the edges of the very ill kept fields hard by. On three occasions I 

 saw females after flying in the usual aimless fluttering fashion of 

 Leptosia above the plant, settle thereon, walk about and make a flexing- 

 movement of the abdomen but try as I would I could not find the ova. 

 My efforts to find the foodplant of Alicia anteros were also unsuccessful. 

 This species was not so common this year at Constantinople. It is 

 generally abundant. 



I did not visit this interesting locality in June. On .July 7th, I 

 found what I take to be Hirsntina adiiutiis, but answering the des- 



