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Milanarit'ia titm var. titauia was plentiful all over these hills, but not 

 much else. About two hours' ride brou.i^ht us to the coach-road from 

 Beyrout to Damascus, which here follows a nice green valley with a 

 pretty brook, along the banks of which I took I.yatrna aatrarrlie, 

 Syn'rhthiis- pui/iiri in some numbers, N. orbifrr, &c. Leaving the valley 

 we rode along narrow, rocky, partly cultivated and much grazed 

 valleys, which wound deviously through barren and very rocky hills. 

 I hunted carefully for butterflies, but got nothing new, much the same 

 insects as at Wady Shabat. June 5th, we still travelled southwards, 

 through much the same kind of country, and I found buttertiies 

 plentiful in some of the dry watercourses and little stony cornfields. 

 Tlwda )iii/rtali', I', ilicia var. ri'rri, L'hnisnphannK t/wrsawon var. perslca, 

 ('. orliinins, Li/rai'iia anutndua, L. astrarchc, Ari/ifiDua niohe var. erh 

 (very small), /-. caxdalns {.'), Mditai'a jf/iochr, M. diihjDia var. ncera, 

 M. triria, Si/richtJtiis orhifer, Hesperict thaiiiiias, &c. My best catch 

 was Satijrus actara var. hadjina, a form quite new to me, of which I 

 took three among the rocks. \Ye camped outside Racheya, a rather 

 interesting Druse town close under the western flank of Hermon, 

 which 1 intended to ascend next day, but the guide declared it to be 

 too windy (which was not the case). As the day went on, the sirocco 

 dropped considerably and I went out after butterflies, but had to go 

 about four miles from the town before I could find any place not grazed 

 to death. 1 found a good spur of Hermon, about 5,000ft. high, and took 

 several Satijrns actat'ci var. hadjina and .S'. polopca, saw Anthorharis 

 rharlonia and missed it, took lliecla sjiini var. mclanctho, T. Uicis var. 

 (T/v/ and var. candalata, M. triria, I'!fiinr/i/u>lc li/raoii just out, Hes^peria 

 linciila and H. iiiistrada)n>i!i. Of this I took two or three specimens, 

 but whether I considered them good enough to keep or not, I cannot 

 remember. None, however, have come back from the setter, but I am 

 quite certain that I took the insect on this occasion and saw it in one 

 or two other places. I also got several $ s of the unknown orange- 

 marked Lijrarna, the males appear to be over, as I saw none. On 

 June 7th, the heat was excessive from the sirocco, which had been 

 blowing for three days, and I went up Hermon, reaching the top very 

 easily in four hours from Racheya. The day was fine, not very windy, 

 and when we reached an elevation of about 6000ft., we got above the 

 sirocco and breathed again. There was still much snow in all the 

 gullies and the ascent Avas most interesting, but entomologically it 

 was not a success. The summit, a broad, undulating stony plateau, 

 sparsely covered with prickly shrubs, produced no butterflies except 

 I'ieris daplidicr, /'. napi, Colias cdxaa, Pijraiiiris cardiii, all very scarce. 

 On the way down, I saw a very few ParnassiKa iirnriiiosi/iu' (probably its 

 southern limit), took one Li/caoia panai/ra, several Tlwda ini/rtale and 

 7'. s))i)ti var. mdanctlio, one Cnlias edusa var. luiice, and a few doubt- 

 ful and battered sundries. Next day was hotter than ever and we rode 

 southwards by a little known track to Hasbeyah. Here we came to 

 the red sandstone formation, and a better-watered country, with 

 valleys pink with oleander in full bloom along the water-courses, and 

 here I took several specimens of Cii/aritis acamas in bad order. I 

 wish I had visited these glens a fortnight earlier, where they would 

 probably have been more productive. Jvme 9th was the hottest day 

 we had, sirocco, grey sky and no butterflies out. On June 10th we 

 started back to the Lelmnon, and had two fearfully hot days' march, 



