164 ^^"ir. 



therefore an extension of tlie recorded range of tlie species. It is curious 

 that Mesopotamia and mediterraneae should have a similar meaning, 

 though quite reversed in literal expression. 



My own (T. A. C.) notes on the q§^, larva, and pupa are as 

 follows : — 



Egg. 



I received two egg-shells laid in a fork of a twig of Zizyplius. 



The material available for the description of the &^% consists of 

 these egg-shells, the greater part of the upper surface of both is wanting, 

 having been eaten by the larva when hatching. 



The eggs are of the usual Lycaenid cheese-shape, flat above and 

 below, the sides nearly perpendicular to the base, in this case, ver^' little 

 fullness or bulging, and perhaps inclining inwardly above so as to make 

 the top of the ^o^'g rather narrow^er than the base. It is a small egg 

 0'44 mm. in diameter and 0'19 mm. high. 



The sculpturing of the Avhite adventitious coat is hexagonal (or 

 triangular) in character, bold, and prominent. Of course, the specimens 

 only afford examples of it on the sides. A hexagon may be selected, 

 with high knobs at each angle, and another in the centre ; they are 

 connected with each other and with the centre one by narrow ridges of 

 the white material lianging in (catenary y) curves, each hexagon is thus 

 divided into 6 triangles. Each ridge between two knobs is about 

 0"04G mm. long, viz. the distance apart of the knobs on the side of tlie 

 egg. Any knob may be selected as the centre of a hexagon, and hei-e 

 and there, according to the exigencies of the curved surfaces, the hexagon 

 is reduced to a pentagon. The knobs are well raised, and appear to have 

 at top a central depression. The sculpturing extends a good way on the 

 under surface of the egg, leaving only a central portion where it seems 

 wanting. The adventitious coat does not extend to this under surface, or 

 so slightly that the pattern here is sculptm-ing into cells. 



The photograph of one of these egg-shells (by Mr. Tonge), fig. 1, 

 Plate YI, shows very well the boldness of its sculpturing j it is x ;58 

 diameter. 



Larta. 



I have on a slide photographed in fig. 2, Plate VI, x 42, a larva, 

 -newly hatched, of a Tarucns theojjhrastus, taken by Mr. Powell at 

 Sebdou, Oran, Algeria. In tlie light of Mr. Bethune-Baker's investi- 

 gations, it v.'ould seem that this is as probably mediterraneae as 

 theoplirastus, so that a few remarks about it are admissible, the mOre 

 that there may possibly l)e little difference betw'ecn the two s})ecies in 



