20 THE p:nt()M()logist's record. 



good-sized imagines. Kuiionia pobicldoroH was not so common this 

 year, and I saw few Enranexsa antiofia and P. c-alhiiin ; F. ia, on the 

 other hand was commoner than usual. On June 13th I spent an 

 afternoon at Tokat, near Beikos. There I found plenty of BrentJtis 

 daphne with numerous Dnjas pandora and D. paphia. One very fresh 

 Pararije roxelana was taken. I did not work the woods to the south, 

 which are an extension of the Alem-Dagh forest. Here Count 

 Bukowky, in the first week of June, took one or two Art/i/nnis adippe — 

 a species I have not yet seen myself here — and a number of tine M. 

 athalia of a form which the Rev. G. Wheeler says is var. meliadiensh. 

 On June 18th, a hot but cloudy day, I spent two hours at Gyok-su and 

 found a locality for the ab. Iciicoindas of M. f/alatea var. procida, which 

 turned up not uncommonly. Odd specimens of F.iynnis altheae and 

 PoweUia orbifer occurred with numbers of Thi/melicus acteon, Aclopaea 

 flava, and A. xylvanns. Many Nordniannia ilicis and xV. acaciae were 

 about, but nearly all were in bad order. Of the big Satynds <S'. circe was 

 taken some ten days in advance of its usual date, and Hipparchia semiie 

 and S. syriaca (lieiiuione) seen. I took a good second brood specimen of 

 Scolitantides baton. On June 29th I walked from Alemdagh to Riva and 

 Anadol Fener on the Black Sea. There I had little time to collect, 

 but noted great abundance of A. cratacyi, 1. latonia, A. aylaia, B. 

 daphne, E.jnrtina, and other common things in the Alem-Dagh woods. 

 C. arcania and iV. ilicia were common but worn. Near the ford over 

 the Riva-Su I took Brenthis dia mostly worn, and fresh (/. rhavini. I 

 also got a couple of very worn M. athalia var. iiiehadunsis in the 

 clearings. On the sandy coast near Riva Fleheius an/us (aeyon), Aricia 

 medon [antrarchc), of the second brood, and Anthrocera pinictiiin, and A. 

 filipendulae occurred in some numbers with A/, procida ab. leiicoiiielas. 

 Count Bukuwky took A. carnioUca here. On Sunday, July 6th, I 

 spent two hours collecting in a dry oak wood near Yakadjik, a pretty 

 spot on the Asiatic side of the Sea of Marmora, between Erenkeui and 

 Ismid, Here Sati/ru^ syriaca {heri)iione) was very common, and four 

 or five specimens were often to be brushed oft' one tree-trunk. Pararae 

 roxelana was rare and worn. A good C. edusa ab. ? helice and several 

 A. thersites, which was only just appearing, while P. icarns was well 

 out, were, with A. carnioUca and a single ? Tarucus balcanicKx, my 

 best captures. On July 10th I visited Gyok-su, but only had a bare 

 hour there and got little, Anthrocera carnioUca and A. pnnctum being 

 my best captures. 



My last visit to Gyok-su was on October 28th. On that date not 

 much was flying beyond the Pierids, Pyraincis card id and some common 

 Lycfenids, but I made some interesting observations. I saw one or 

 two " blue " $ s of P. vVflc/rs, which are not common here. They were, 

 however, much less heavily suffused with blue than specimens of the 

 British race var. tutti, Obthr., which I took in the Isle of \Yight in 

 September. Aricia wednn {astrarche) was unmistakably of the third 

 brood. The specimens were very small, the underside ground colour 

 resembling that usual in spring specimens and never approaching the 

 rich yellow-brown or even orange-brown hue of summer specimens. I 

 took a very large but worn C. ediisa-Sih. ? heUce and saw what I took 

 to be C. erate but could not take it. A', telicanns was extremely 

 abundant but mostly in bad order. 



III. Smyrna. — I had about half an hour's collecting in the warm 



