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cription of the Albarracin form given by M. C. Oberthilr, in vol. iv. of 

 T.cp. Coynparee, and in some cases showing an approach as far as the 

 underside is concerned to the form ripartii, which I have often taken 

 in Syria. All the 2 s showed more or less the reddish ante-marginal 

 lunules on the npperside of the hindwings, which I have noted in 

 Syrian females of //. poxeidcm, but have never seen in Syrian li/iartii. 

 This insect was not uncommon and I secnred a fair series. On the 

 same day I took a very wasted specimen of Kliii/ia spini, the first I 

 have taken in the Constantinople region, anfl half-a-dozen L. diipnncheli, 

 g.a. aestlva, two of which were very yellowish-white indeed. One or 

 two fresh C. sebriis (osiris) were taken here, a second brood no doubt, and 

 two or three A. thetis. I much wondered whether these were the last 

 survivors of the first or the first comers of the second brood. Large 

 specimens of (J. rhamni were noted but I took none, which I now 

 regret as they might have proved to be G. farinosa. I was, however, 

 much bothered by a policeman, fat and obsequious who followed me 

 everywhere for some time, puffing and dripping, and urged me to 

 repair to a cafe where I was, I suppose, to " stand " him some refresh- 

 ment. I had in the end to give the creature a box of cheap cigarettes to rid 

 myself of him. His prompt disappearance on receiving the " back- 

 sheesh " suggested that his fears of some menace to my safety from 

 'hypothetical bad characters which, he averred, had prompted 

 hnn to accompany me on a broiling day were invented, and that he had 

 really been inspired either by thirst or greed. 



Mrs. R. Whittall, who with her young family, visited Dil 

 Iskelessi on a yacht in May and again in mid-July, took there in 

 addition to my additions to the local list, a fine male of Everfa an/iades 

 differing very much from ray /'J. alcetas, taken in 1912 at Yalova, and 

 a small but beautifully fresh Enodia dn/as, the latter an interestmg 

 record, and I think the first of recent date for Western Asia Minor, 



I paid a brief visit to Gyok-su on May 25th, and on that day took 

 a very large and characteristic P. iia/d of the summer form napaeae. 

 As /'. napi g.a. 7Jrt/*rt<?rt£^ occurred with fresh and fairly typical specimens 

 in the Belgrade Forest in early June, and a good napaeae fell to my 

 net on St. Nicolas' islet in the Sea of Marmora, on May 30th, I should 

 like to get the experiences of those who have collected in spring and 

 early summer in 8. Europe. Have they taken the two forms together 

 in early summer? I doubt the Belgrade Forest napi taken in June 

 having been first brood specimens. F. napi was getting worn at 

 Gyok-su in early April, and I am therefore inclined to believe that the 

 vernal form occurs with napaeae in early summer, later emergencies 

 being very marked napaeae, and only napaeae. 



In some ways my most interesting collecting was done during a 

 brief, all too brief, yachting trip on the coast beyond Pendik. Pendik, 

 like Kartal and Yakadjik, is on a grey limestone formation covered on 

 the higher ground by schists and sandstone. Beyond Pendik and 

 between it and Tuzla one finds a sandy coastal strip stretching for 

 many miles with outcrops of limestone, and of what appears to be a 

 red conglomerate. Vegetation here is richer than on the dry and 

 treeless hill slopes though there are few trees. On this trip on May 

 29th-31st, I had a good many hours' collecting in delightful weather 

 on two days. On the first I spent the whole morning near iMavri, a 

 pretty little bay some five miles beyond Pendik, and there took several 



