Séance du ÎT) Décembre 1015 K55 



A List of the Butterflies of Egypt 



with 

 some notes on those of the Sinai 



by C.ipUiin Philip Ghaves F.E.S. 



(Foreword) 



The following notes on Ihe Rliopaloceia of Egy|)f 

 are intended : 



(l)To supplement and correct the list j)ul)Iished by 

 Mr. Andres (Bull. Ent. Soc. Eg. 1912. Pi. I II. i)p. 57 -Go) in 

 his list of the Egyptian Lepidoplera, which contains 

 certairi inaccuracies and certain unfortunate inis(|uota- 

 tions of the notes [)id)lished or communicated to Mr. 

 Andres by the writer of the present paper. 



(2) To give collectors and students of the Egyptian 

 Rhopalocera some indications both of the habitat and 

 time of appearance of the insects contained in the sub- 

 joined list and hints as to the directions in which des- 

 cri|)tive activity may be i)rofitabIy exercised by the 

 Entomologists of Egypt. 



Our knowledge of the Lejiidoptera of Egyj)t is still 

 somewhat incomplete. lam personally of opinion that 

 there are not a few additions to be made even to the 

 subjoined brief list and that the entomological explora- 

 tion of the strip of cultivation known as the Wadi 

 Tumilat which extends from Tel-el-Kebir to Ismailia, 



