76 Bullclin de In Socictc Ent<>iu<)l()<iì(inc <l'[u/ijplc 



Midi de l'Europe. 

 \ìì dans Vormc. 



C'est la Rosalia alpina citée par M. L. Iconomo- 

 poulos dans le Bull, de la Soc. Vau. d'Egypte, 

 1914-15, p. 134. 



Séance du 14 Juin 1916 



Présidence de M. Edgakd Chakoi r 



Communications 



Notes on some Egyptian butterflies 



by Captain Philip Gravks F. K. S. 



Plebeius loewii v. gigas, female form joannae, Andr. 



Examining a series of specimens ofthisfme Lycae- 

 nid taken by Mr. E. W. Adair in April this year in the 

 Upper part of Wadi-Hof I was struck by the large size 

 of the females all of which with one exception belonged 

 to the blue Ljoaniiae.ln the Lebanon the normal female o' 

 V. gifjns very seldom exceeds 1(5-17 mm. in expanse 

 nieasured from the apex of the anterior wing to the cen- 



