Sèaiicc (In lo Décembre Wlö 145 



average size : (h) greater transparency of wings, the 

 underside markings showing through on the upper side; 

 and(c)ahsenceof l)nsal spots on underside of the hindw- 

 ings. 



^4. jesous is reported from I'^gypt by Seit/, but no 

 authority is quoted for this statement. 



The only Egyptian specimen of .4. uhaldiis which 

 1 have seen was taken early in November 1907 by me 

 on a tree of Aaicut farnesiana in the Ezbekia (larden, 

 (^aiio, 



Food/)lanl : Prol)a])!y Acacia farnesiana and kindred 

 spp. .4. jesous ovipositing on A. farnesiana in Syria. 

 Myrmecophilous larva. 



Distribution outside Kgijpt. The Nile Valley from 

 the Tropic of Cancer almost to Uganda, Somaliland, 

 Natal. Aden, Beluchistan, India, Ceylon and Burma. 



14. Tarucus iheophrasius, Fabu. 



Common in the neighbourhood of its foodplant, 

 from Abukir and Alexandria southwards from III to XI, 

 in a series of broods. 



The Females are distinctly variable in the amount 

 of white marking on the ui)per-side. 



Foodplant: Zizijphus vulgaris, "Nabb." Larva myr- 

 mecophilous. 



Distribution outside Egypt. S. Spain, Algeria and 

 Morocco, Senegal, Sudan, Somaliland, Aden, Persia to 

 India and Ceylon. In Syria, Asia Minor and the Balkan 

 Peninsula it is represented by the kindred species 

 ( ? subspecies) T. balcanicus. 



15. Zizera karsandra, Moore. 



While akin to Z. lijsimon with which it has long 



