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underside of the forewings, and every spot on the underside of hind- 

 wings obsolete. To judge from the Brit. Mus. examples, and from 

 my limited observations, the form which occurs at and near the Cedars 

 of Lebanon (6100ft.), to be distinguished from the Ain Zahalta cedars, 

 is much nearer the type from Asia Minor, Greece, etc. The x\in 

 Zahalta (mountain) form occurs on sandstone. It is geographically 

 separated from the N. Lebanon form by some miles of treeless 

 mountain, which forms the luneisa ridge, where it does not seem to 

 occur. It is not known whether it occurs on the next big mountain 

 mass, the Jebel Sannin (circ. 9000ft.). At the Cedars it is found on 

 limestone thinly covered with alluvial glacial deposit. I propose the 

 following name and description for the Ain Zahalta form : — 



Chrysophamts thctis var. zahaltensis, nov. var. — Upperside as in type. 

 Underside of forewings with fainter spotting, notably towards outer margin. 

 Spots on underside of hindwings obsolete. Marginal orange marking faint. Ain 

 Zahalta Cedars. Males only taken. .July 17th-23rd, 1904, and July 28th- 

 August 10th, 1907. 



I searched in vain for females of this beautiful insect. In August 

 I saw one, "calling" males, perched with outspread wings on a 

 rocky ledge. The ground did not permit me to net her. Of other 

 insects I took Scolitantides baton and Loiveia dorilis var. orientali^ in 

 single damaged examples. Pleheitis loweii was not uncommon, but 

 the females only were in the best condition. A nice skipper, which 

 Mr. Tutt believes to be a form of Hesperia aliens, occurred here and 

 there, and I took three specimens of I'leheius sephijrm var. nicholli of 

 an obvious second brood or partial second brood on August 10th. 

 They were less heavily marked, with reddish orange on the margin of 

 the upperside of the hindwings, than my May and early June speci- 

 mens. A single specimen of Lionepterijx rha)iini, taken near the 

 summit, was interesting, this species being rare on the west slope of 

 the Lebanon. I did not collect after August 10th, but on August 

 27th, when returning from a journey to the borders of the forbidden 

 Hedjaz, saw Idmais fansta at Amman (Rabbath-Ammon), east of the 

 Jordan, at about 3500ft. above sea-level. 



[Here I may note that I had always regarded Pontia daplidice as 

 rare in Egypt. In mid- June, 1908, 1 saw quite a number of specimens, 

 with some P. ulauconnuie, in a garden of the Egyptian Army Hospital 

 at Abbassieh, Cairo, and at the end of June I saw scores flying in the 

 desert and half-cultivated ground near the stations from a point some 

 ten miles east of Zagazig to nearly as far as Ismailia. I, alas, was in 

 a slow and stifling train, and, though I recognised, yet could not 

 catch them.] 



{To he continued.) 



The South London Entomological Society. 



The South London Entomological Society held its usual Annual 

 Exhibition Meeting at Hibernia Chambers on November 21th. The 

 President Mr. W. J. Kaye, F.E.S., was in the chair, and the proceedings 

 commenced punctually at 7.30 p.m. 



Successful as ever, the South London fairly eclipsed itself on this 

 occasion, and this was mainly due to the energetic Secretaries, Messrs. 

 S. Edwards, F.E.S., F.Z.S., and Henry J. Turner, F.E.S., and the 

 enthusiasm of the members and their friends. A most educative, 



