SOME NOTES ON COLLECTING IN SYRIA. 



121 



wing transparent. Hindwing in ? with the costa to the end of the 

 cell pale brown, thence to margin dark brown suffused with blackish, 

 in (? wholly blackish-grey. Outer margin broadly black, containing 

 a band of varying width of umber- brown. Occasionally the inner 

 band is extended round to meet costa, but more often is very faint or 

 absent beyond nervure 4. At apex are one or two faint traces of 

 whitish or greyish marks as in forewing. Collar and front edge of 

 patagia dull red. Underside of both wings similar to upperside, except 

 that within the heavy black bar of the forewing is a band of light 

 brown, and a band of similar colour within the black marginal band. 

 Three apical white spots are quite distinct. In both g and ? the 

 underside of the costa of hindwing is pale brown, like the inner band 

 before the outer margin. Three distinct white apical marks and 

 indications of some others. Exp. 44mm. Habitat, Potaro river, 

 British Guiana. 



Hyrmina protecta, n.sp. — Forewing black and transparent. Costa, 

 inner margin, outer margin, and apex broadly black, the last particu- 

 larly so. A broad black band from costa, beyond cell to marginal 

 black band, enclosing a curved longitudinal transparent space. The 

 nervures within the transparent area, between the transverse band and 

 inner margin, heavily covered with blackish scales. The dark scales 

 extending well beyond the nervures. Hindwing transparent, the costa 

 and outer margin broadly black. The nervures clothed with dark 

 scales within the transparent area. Head with frons, bases of antenn® 

 and prothorax with white spots. Front edge of patagia with dull red 

 spots. Exp. 88mm. Habitat, Potaro river, British Guiana. 



Explanation of Plate III. 

 Fig. 



1. Euagra coelestina. . .. Syntojiid,?-: ^ 



2. Cyanopepla chelidun .. ,, r Sect. I. \ 



3. Pseiularbessa decoraUi .. ? Geojietrid.e ' LriminT 



4. Aijyrta micilia . . . . Syntomid.e » 1 



5. Esthemopsis Kericina .. Ertcinid.?"; ^ Sect. II.) 



6. lostola divisa . . . . HYPSiDiE ' 



7. Heterosais sylphis . . iTHOiiiiriyE 

 9. Leucothyris zarepJia .. ,, 



11. Itliomia florula .. .. ,, 



13. Napeogenes jwtaronus, n.sp. ,, f^rniin II 



8. Hyrmina protecta, n.s'p.. . Geometrid*; ' '■ 

 10. Stalachtis phaedusa . . Erycinida; 



12. Stalachtis evelina . . ,, 



14. Lauroii partita . . Hypsid/E 



Some Notes on Collecting in Syria — Ain=Zahalta and Jebel Barouk, 



1904. 



By PHILir P. GRAVES. 



(Concluded from p. 57.) 

 I arrived at Ain Zahalta on July 10th, 1904, after three hours' 

 train, amidst fine mountain scenery, and three and a half hours' drive 

 up and down hill, amid great ridges looking like overgrown south 

 downs after a drought, but stonier by far. On all these heights 

 Melananjia var. teneates flew with Satijrii>i telephassa, worn ThymelicuH 

 lineola and Parar;/e megaera, and numerous Polyoimiiatiix icartis. 

 Zahalta itself is a village built on the terraced sides of a hill, some 



