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continue to be well marked. In September, along with others Ix'aring 

 the summer liver}', pale examples again appeared. Females from Jebel 

 Hamrin and Kizil Kobat, dated November 20th and December 20th, 

 are of rather dingy colour but have still distinct shoulder-stripes. 

 A male from the latter locality on December 81st is very similar to the 

 autumnal males of 1917. Of two males from Basrah, one, October 10th, 

 1918, may be regarded as of the summer condition noted above ; the 

 other, October 14th, is less mature and in some respects approaches the 

 Amara autumnal examples, although the basal patch of the hind wing is 

 Lirge and distinct, and the wing tips rather more extensively darkened; 

 the females (Basrah and Long Island) are also more dingy, but this may 

 be to some extent a matter of preservation. [The three females received 

 later from the same source are of the autumnal form, that of October 

 10th being subteneral.] 



I have no hesitation in including these Mesopotamian examples with 

 the C. servilia group of forms, and I note that Mr. Campion has for- 

 warded the Basrah specimens under the same name. They no doubt 

 find their proper place next to the Indian C. servilia, and the summer 

 examples come sufficiently near examples before me from Pusa, Bengal, 

 and Deesa, which again agree fairly well with Rambur's description of 

 C. soror, although it is not to be implied from this that I regard these 

 examples as transition forms towards C. erytliraea, that being Dr. Kis's 

 view of the status of G. soror after an examination of Bambur's tj^pe. 



Amara specimens measure : 



c? , hind wing 27-81, abdomen 23-26 mm. 



$, „ 28-31, „ 22-25 „ 



Anq. 9^-10|. 



The autumnal specimens usually the smaller. 



In the Indian examples which I have examined the anq. are 

 normally 10|-11|. 



14. — Diplacodes Jefehvrei Ramb. 



5 c? d & 2 2 2 , September 5th-10th, Amara ; 1 d" , 1 ? , November 

 28rd, 1918, Jebel Hamrin {Evans); 1 6, October 22nd, 1918, Basrah 

 {Barrand), 



Does not appear to have been noticed before September, although on 

 the 5th of that month some males were already quite black, while others 

 on the 10th still show the markings sharply. The late examples are 

 fullv mature. 



