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species occurs in Egypt in 2 l^ioods III & b. V. 03e. 

 II. 03 (Graves) in Wadi Hof and also in Wadi Rashid 

 where it was taken by Herr (niyot in 1901 and where 

 I found a larva in 1907. Mokallam plateau (Miss Jack- 

 son. 1909). 



Foodplant : The huva I took in Wadi Rashitl was 

 on Linaria sp. 



Dislrilnition outside Egijpt. Througliout the Palae- 

 arctic region except in Great Britain, Japan an(J some 

 of the Mediterranean Islands, e. g. Corsica, Malta, Sard- 

 inia and Cyprus. The var. deserticola occurs in the 

 Algerian Sahara and in Sinai. 



31. Danais chrysippus^ L. 



Throughout the year froin Alexandria to the Sudan, 

 commonest in sumnier. Often abundant. Usually tyjiical 

 but the form (dcippoides, Mooni-: is represented in the 

 Collection of the Ministry of Agriculture by two speci- 

 mens, one from Fayum, the other from Suez. There is 

 a specimen labelled " Sallom " in this collection. Is 

 this Solium ? 



Foodplant : ^'Oshr" {Cal<>irij)is procera ) also ''Almeh" 

 (Daemia cordata) sec. Aii(h-es, Cijnanchnni. ? and Pen- 

 ta tropis. 



Distribution outside Egijpl. Athens. (>yprus, Syria, 

 Tripoli (Seitz), Canary -Islands and throughout Trop- 

 icak Africa and the Oriental region. 



Other species not recorded with absolute ceiiainty 

 from Egypt are Belenois niesentina {a\. which is found 

 a])undantly in most parts of non-Palaearclic Africa, in 

 the hotter parts of Syria and Persia and in India and 

 Cevlon. Ruhl-Hevne records it from Suez in Mav. As 



