150 THE entomologist's record. 



' Khanka, edge of desert, October,' failed. I saw one, but the insect 

 got away through the glare, and I hope to be more fortunate next April, 

 another attempt to get the insect, October 9th, 1904, having failed 

 through the windiness and cloudiness of the day. The one set specimen 

 I have seen looks like a very heavily-spotted St/yichthus pJilonudis. It 

 is certainly not <S. malrae, S. orbifer, or S. nomas. 



I passed the first eight months of 1904 at Alexandria, and, during 

 the spring months, February and March, paid great attention to the 

 Margut steppe, which Avere then quite green and covered with flowers. 

 Asphodel, anemones, numerous vetches, gladiolus and poppies abounded, 

 but butterflies occurred at the ratio of one to the square rood, and my 

 results for eight visits, including a day in May, were — 6 Thestor ballus 

 (5 (? s one much suffused on the forewing with dark grey), 1 ? 

 Lampides boeticns, 4 Antlwcharia belia, smaller and slenderer than the 

 Cairo desert specimens, 2 ? FolyomnmUis var. abencerrai/as and a few 

 CarcJiarndiis laraterae (taken with one or two doubtful moths in May). 

 The poorness of this year's rainfall and the windiness of these open 

 plains was no doubt responsible for my failure. 



At Alexandria I took a fair number of species of Heterocera which 

 have not yet been determined ; H. livia larvfe gave me a couple of 

 dozen perfect specimens, and Mr. Marsden sent me examples of Manduca 

 atropos and Zeuzera jryrina. In September, P. hjsimon abounded in 

 my garden with L. boeticns, but L. telicanus was very rare at Alexandria 

 this year, and I only took one specimen of the doubtful Parnara. A day 

 at Ezbet el Nakhle in March brought me nothing remarkable but an 

 exceptionally large $ Antliocharis g.a. ulauce. My list of species captured 

 or seen is not magnificent. They are as follows: — Pierid^ — Pieris 

 rapae, everywhere in cultivated districts ; Pontia daplidice, 1 $ near 

 Cairo; P. filauconome, in desert ravines southeast of Cairo and east of 

 Helonan ; Anthocliaris belemia, cultivated districts, November to April 

 6th, most common in the form of the 2nd brood ; A. belia, desert ravines 

 near Cairo and Helonan and Margut steppes west of Alexandria ; Colias 

 edusa, common in cultivation, ab. $ helice occurring now and then 

 [Gone])teryx sp ? one seen in streets at Alexandria, near docks.] 

 Nymphalid>e : Hypoliumasnnsipints, seen August, 1908, at Cairo Barrage; 

 Pyrameis atalanta,rare at Cairo, common at Alexandria ; P. cardiii, every- 

 where; Danais c// ?'?/.s77)2>»s, everywhere in cultivated land ; Melitaeadidy)na 

 var. deserticola, March and April, same habitat as Pontia ylaiiconoine. 

 Lyc.enid.e : Thestor ballus, Margut steppe, not common, January to 

 middle March ; Hypolycaena livia, gardens, hedges, etc., in Cairo and 

 Alexandria ; Lampides boeticns, everywhere ; L. telicanus, all cultivated 

 land; L. theophrastus, Cairo and local to the northeast of the town, 

 common at Aboukir ; Chilades trocliilus, very local and sparingly north- 

 east of Cairo ; PntsticKs (?) allardii, a pair in the desert ac Wadi Hof ; 

 Polyommatns lysimon, everywhere in cultivated land and rarely in the 

 desert ; Polyommatns var. abencerrayns, very rare Margut steppe. 

 Hesperiid^ : Crt?r/i«/'0(//<.s Zrtcrtiera*?, Margut steppe. May ; Hesperia, sp., 

 seen near Khanka, October ; Parnara mathias, locally common ; P. 

 nostradamns, locally common; P. sp. (?), taken at Cairo, 2 at Alex- 

 andria, in autumn. 



