18 THE entomologist's recokd. 



On June 24th 1 again visited the woods in search of I'aranje 

 roxelana, Li/raejia avion, and Ueteroptenm iiiorplieiis. Varaiije roxelana 

 was pretty rare everywhere this year, and I only got two specimens, 

 one of which was not perfect. H. inorpheuH occurred in great 

 abundance on some new ground 1 visited, a track from the Biiyiik-dere, 

 Belgrade Forest road to Therapia, through Avoods at first and then 

 through a series of valleys very slightly cultivated and bordered by 

 productive patches of brushwood and heathy or grassy wastes. 

 hi. Dior/iheiis was very common indeed here, but most of the specimens 

 I took were already rather worn. I only took one Li/caciia avion, 

 a large rather worn ? . Count Bukuwky, who accompanied me on 

 this outing, had taken about a dozen L. avion in the preceding fort- 

 night, both here and rather nearer Therapia. A species which was 

 very common this year on both sides of the Bosphorus was Dvyas 

 papliia many of which were flying to bramble blossom on June 24th. 

 Even more common was Dvyas pandora, which was extraordinarily 

 abundant, everywhere in 1913. I saw Loiceia ulciphvon of the 

 meliboens form but it was worn to rags. The Satyrids were well out, 

 Sati/vtts circe, Hippavchia semele a,nd what one should call, if M. JuUien's 

 conclusions (Bull. Soc. Lep. Gen., vol. i., p. 365) are correct, S. syviaca 

 instead of S. Iierurione. I shall be very glad to send material to any 

 lepidopterist who wishes to examine the male genitalia of these 

 Constantinople " hermione." 



In July I had little chance of paying more than very brief visits, 

 and these on business to Therapia. None of the species I took there 

 were remarkable but I noticed (1) a comparative abundance of Issovia 

 lathunia, a species which I had found rare near Constantinople in 

 previous years, (2) a great increase in the numbers of liaijicavdia 

 telicanns, which seems to have been common everywhere this year on 

 the Bosphorus. Count Bukuwky took several P. icavus ab. icavinus at 

 one locality near Therapia, where I have not yet taken Ihevsites. He 

 also got a decent specimen of Anthvoceva [Zyijaena) laeta, a rare 

 species, near Constantinople. His specimen came near ab. //m^^^jViei';/;/, 

 Chard. Anthvoceva piinctiuii, another species, which was fairly common 

 this year, occurred not infrequently on the downs behind Biiyuk-dere. 



II. Bosphorus. — Asiatic Side. — My first collecting on the Asiatic 

 side in 1913 was on March 13th, when I paid a visit to Prinkipo 

 Island, a pine-clad island, the fourth of a chain known generally as 

 the " Princes Islands" and in Turkish as " Kizil Adalar " (the Red 

 Islands) on account of the sandstone of which they are largely com- 

 posed. Prinkipo, I may add, contains some limestone outcrops and 

 shows signs of former volcanic activity. In March I took Callopluys 

 rtibi here with Ramicia phlaeas and hibernated Goncptevi/x rhainni, 

 Vanessa io, Polyrjonia eyea, and Emjonia polychloros (hibernated) were 

 also seen with Pievis bvasaicae and a single Pievis vapae. My next visit 

 to Prinkipo was on May 20th when I found a few Epinephele jtivtina 

 just out, noted worn Avicia inedon [astvavche) and A. antevos. single 

 specimens of Iphiclides podaliviiis, Linicnitis rainilla and C. viilii, all of 

 them in bad order, one very large S Pi(c/doi'ravdaiiiiiic>i, also worn, and 

 nothing else. Everything was already somewhat burnt, the island 

 containing no springs worth mentioning and being out of the 

 " Bosphorus draught," with the result that it misses not a few spring 

 and summer showers. I was unable to visit the island in late June 



