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Pulijowniatus an/us {aetjon). — 6 males, 5 females, 8 undersides. 2 

 Dover, Leplastrier, 3 from Eddleston, 1844. The rest "from 

 Penzance, Noye, 1846." 



Polyommatus agestis. — 6 uppersides, 4 undersides. One from Chelms- 

 ford, "1844, 1 from Southend, 1843, the rest Dover, 1846, A.G. 



Poli/ommatns Haliiiacis. — 2 poor males, both from Whitwell, 1844, one 

 of the labels being, " This seems to be ai/eMis." 



Polijnnnnatus arta.irr.vcs. — 7. 3 From Scotland. Seaman, 1846. 4, 

 Perthshire, Weaver, 1846. 



Thyiiiele taiies. — 1 Eddleston, 1844. 2 Heppenstall, 1843. 2 Ipswich, 

 Seaman. 1 Carlisle, Hodgkinson, 1846. 



Pamiiliila alreolui>. — 9. 1 Eddleston, Manchester, 2 Whitwell, Peter- 

 borough, 1845. 



Paiiiphila linea. — 6. 4 Males and 2 females, one of the latter being 

 really the Essex Skipper, 11. lineula. Unfortunately none 

 have labels. 



I'a)>ipliila sj/lvajiiis. — 9. 



Paiiiphila cniiinia. — 7. 4 " Dover, Leplastrier," 1846, 2 " Lewes, 

 Thomson, 1846," and 1 " Seaman, Ipswich, 1845." 

 Although 66 years have elapsed since this collection was fo'-med 



there may still be surviving some members of the ancient brigade who 



can identify for us the enterprising " A. G." 



He certainly succeeded in getting a most interesting lot of 



Lepidoptera within a very limited period of time. The moths 



contained in his cabinet I propose to describe in a continuation of this 



article next month. 



(To be continued.) 



Notes of the Season 1912 at Constantinople. 



By P. P. GRAVES, F.E.S. 

 I had very little time for collecting during the present year and the 

 following notes are therefore somewhat meagre. Butterflies were 

 distinctly less numerous than in 1911, and the year itself was unfavour- 

 able. An early spring which brought out Callophrt/x ritbi, Ftunricia 

 pldaean, Pararije ae<jeria, Pontia daplidice and the common Pierids in 

 the last fortnight of March, was followed by a cold snap which lasted till 

 the end of April. July was unsettled and the weather broke early in 

 September and remained broken till the end of the autumn. In May 

 and June I tried Kiathane, where I found nothing new, and the Gyok-su 

 ground, where I found new localities for Hesperia sidae and Polj/om- 

 iiiatits aiiianda on June 6th, on which date I also took not a few fresh 

 Melitaea triria ? s and plenty of Xurdinannia ilicis, these latter rather 

 smaller than my specimens from the Belgrade forest. One A ordnumnia 

 araciae $ was taken here. From July 18th to 22nd I stayed at Kuri- 

 Yalova, a very pretty " station thermale," on the Asiatic side of the 

 sea of Marmora, about 10 miles from the shore. The valley in which 

 the baths and hot springs lie is well wooded ; the geological formation 

 is limestone and vegetation was rich and varied. Results were, how- 

 ever, disappointing. Kceres alcetan, one J was my only new species, 

 though I took Ariiynnis adippe, a large form, which I had not found 

 near Constantinople, and found what seems to be a form of Melitaea 

 phoebe (unless it be the elusive Melitaea ardninna) much more common 



