NOTES ON NOMIADES MELANOPS. 61 



Waterhouse for his kindness in comparing them with me, and in 

 reading through my description. 



I liave called this species hiKhnni in honour of my friend and 

 colleague, T. Hudson-Beare, with whom I was staying, and who was 

 with me at the time the insect was captured. 



Explanation of Plate III. 



1. Male appendages of Anaspis liudsoni, Donisthorpe. 



2. ,, ,, Anaspis frontalis, L. 



3. ,, ,, Anaspis septentrionalis. Champion. 



4. ,, ,, Anaspis garneysi, Fowler. 



5. ,, ,, Anaspis rufilahris, Gyll. 



6. ,, ,, Anaspis pulicaria , Costa. 



7. ,, ,, Anaspis melanostoma, Cost^x,. 



8. ,, ,, Anaspis geoif'roni,'^i\x\\. 

 1). ,, ,, Anaspis rujicollis, F. 



10. ,, ,, Anaspis costae, Emeiy. 



11. ,, ,, Anaspis suhtestacea, ^te.]}\\. 



12. ,, ,, Anaspis maculata, Fouic. 



13. ,, ,, Anaspis latipaljns, Schil. 



Notes on Nomiades melanops. 



By H. POWELL, F.E.S.. 



This is a strictly single-hrooded blue, flying in April and May. 

 The larva occurs on flowers of Duri/cniion fniffrKcticosian at Hyeres in 

 May and earl}- June, and is very regularly attended bj' very active, 

 medium-sized, black ants. The larva must, however, feed on some 

 other plant than Dorycniiiw in Algeria, for there is none of it where I 

 have taken the species. The pupa is pale in colour, attached to stones, 

 etc. The attachment is weak, and, in captivity, pup;e are sometimes 

 found loose in the cage. It passes the summer and winter as a pupa. 

 The species is generally found on limestone, but, at Hyeres, it also 

 occurs near the Cap Bregancon, on schistose soil. I found it there in 

 abundance, April 19th, 1893. 



It flies in April, in the Hyeres district, also in May, but is generally 

 worn in the latter month. Hyeres localities are : Costebelle quarries, 

 near Sanatorium, in the Vallee de Vertaubanne, Col de Serre, Car- 

 queiranne. La Mauniere, La Farlede, Cap Bregancon. The following- 

 are some actual dates and localities : April 19th, 1893, Cap Bregancon : 

 May 1st, 1902, La Farlede; March 29th, 1903, Costebelle Quarries ; 

 April 20th, 1903, La Guiranne (Var); May 9th, 1906, La Mauniere, 

 along the paths and in clearings, few were fresh ; June 3rd and 4th, 

 1906, La Turbie (Alpes-Maritimes) worn ; bred April 12th, 1906, at 

 Hyeres; May 11th, 1907, at Sebdou (Oran), very worn; May 19th 

 and 20th, 1907, Merchich near Sebdou (ten specimens); May 2oth, 

 1908, at Khenchela (Constantine) (1). The Algerian specimens are 

 large, with undersides of a brownish-grey, and with rather small 

 spots. 



Larvie were beaten from flowering Donjoniiiii, May 22nd, 1904, 

 and June 1st, 1904 at Hyeres, and June 13th, 1906 at Laghet, Alpes- 

 Maritimes. Ants were beaten out Avith the larviv every time, and 

 W'ere kept with them afterwards. 



I made the following notes on the larva : June 1st, in the Vertau- 

 banne Valley, I beat out of ]>ori/cniuiit sxp^riicticosion a couple of larvae 

 of N. melanops, one attended by a rather large ant which left it only 



