244 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



NOTES ON LEPIDOPTERA FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN. 

 By T. B. Fletcher, R.N., F.E.S. 



(Continued from p. 223.) 



At Malta, during May, I had few opportunities for collecting, 

 but came across the following species : — 



Pyrameis cardiii. Commou. 

 Ccenonywpha pamphilus. Common, but worn. 

 Polyommatus astrarche and P. icdrus. Common. 

 Pieris rapa. Abundant ; some of the females strongly suffused 

 with black. — P. hrasdciB. Common ; a new brood. 

 Pontia daplidice. Moderately common. 

 Macroylossa stellatarum. Abundant. 



Deilephila livornica and 7^. niphorhid. One specimen of each. 

 Heliothis armiyera. One. 

 Erotyla trahealu {suJphuralis). One. 

 Anaitis plagiata. Fairly common. 

 Adela sp. One. 



On the 22nd May we were suddenly hurried off on account of 

 the mail troubles in Turkey, and arrived at Syra on the 24th. At 

 this time of year the island was very bare and parched up, the 

 only greenery apparently being in the orchards. I landed on the 

 25th, but a few Thalpochares ostrina Pyrameis cardiii,?LnA Ej^ine- 

 'phelc ianira seemed to represent all the Lepidoptera on the wing. 



The mail difficulties being settled, we left Syra on the 1st 

 June, and, after looking in at Phalerum, found ourselves at Suda 

 Bay, Crete, on June 2nd. The next afternoon I went in search 

 of Camonympha thyrsis, which is peculiar to Crete. A thunder- 

 storm was brewing round the hill-tops, and the moist air was 

 laden with the scent of the myrtle, wild thyme, sage, peppermint, 

 &c., with which the hills were clothed ; the butterflies were 

 rather sluggish on the wing in consequence, and required to be 

 knocked out of the bushes, from out of which also the big green 

 lizards came rustling in a great state of mind. The following 

 were the Lepidoptera met with : — 



Danais chrysippits. — A specimen was flying round the ship in the 

 morning, but I saw none ashore. 



Hipparchia semele var. aristaus. — Common. 



Epinephele ianira var. hiapuUa. — Abundant. 



Ccenonympha thyrsis. — Very common everywhere. Flits about over 

 the bushes and herbage, keeping close to the ground ; its habits seem 

 precisely similar to those of our little C. pamphilus, which it seems to 

 quite replace here. 



Pararye egeria and Satyrus mego'ra. — Common round a small group 

 of plane- and fig-trees ; the eyeria were of course the South European 

 form. 



Lampides bceticus. — One tattered specimen. 



